Sunday, March 17, 2013

St. Patrick's Day

Temple Connor at Clanmacnoise in Ireland

Top'o the mornin to ye.  Since I have Irish roots St. Pat's Day has always been special to me.  Baltimore was full of taverns with 17 cent green beer and Irish music and parades.  How I miss that.  I went to a luncheon yesterday and wore my green St. Patrick's Day t-shirt with about 20 green strings of beads from New Orleans.  Had to stop at the post office on the way.  I think the postmaster recognized an alien.  I was lucky enough to visit Ireland in celebration of my 60th birthday.  It was wonderful and I recalled the words in the Judy Collins song "Drink a round to Ireland son, I'm home again".  Visiting there felt just like going home.  Did I mention the beer was wonderful!

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