SOUND ON 🎶 for a moment of zen from Connemara in Ireland which @stellerstories asked me to feature today because the staff all really loved this video and its chorus of nature sounds that I captured on the lake at Kylemore Abbey in Connemara. . There are several Stories in my Steller account from Connemara and the Abbey. I only had one day there with Railtours but it was an area that really captured my soul. . Similar to parts of my beloved Scotland, there’s a wildness and an unrefined beauty that Connemara has that really differs from all the other places I’ve visited in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. And while the shores of this lake itself feel - and look - a bit more refined because of the proximity to the Abbey, the plethora of sounds that you can hear just standing still in one spot, speak to the way refined and rugged meet here. There’s a harmony of man and nature at this lake. . For all my love of our “wilder” places here at home in California, there isn’t a pla...