Happy Hallowe'en! "Summer's end" (Samhain in Irish) and the beginning of the season of return–from now until the winter solstice. The image above is carved on a piece of Valentia slate on the site of Sean O'Connell's house in the village of Cill Rialaig in County Kerry, Ireland. Sean O'Connell was a famous Kerry seanachai.Noelle Campbell Sharp continues her visionary restoration of Cill Rialaig as an artists' retreat. We were fortunate to spend time there twice; the first time in 2003 our retreat ended on Hallowe'en night with an astonishing display of the aurora borealis. We pulled chairs out into the cold darkness and watched with mouths open as sheets & veils of color rippled and dissolved across the deep indigo sky above Ballinskelligs Bay.
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