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Dan Higgins
@danehiggins.bsky.social
Father, husband, nature lover, hiker, stroke survivor, meditator.
Broke the drill going authentic for #Halloween.

Glowsticks, because I dare not impose the smell of warm turnip on the trick and/or treaters.

Today I will think of those who are gone, in the hopes they will speak to me. Or not, whichever.

#Samhain
November 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
October 19, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Listened to Robbie Williams' "Come Undone" while doing this. Started going to an art club in ABII & have found it a useful way to put my feelings on paper for my kids.

I'll send it to the next sponsor on my fundraising page. 10k steps a day 👉 events.irishheart.ie/fundraiser/D...
September 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
There's beauty in the rain.

#plants #water #nature #Ireland #photography
September 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Had a friend in the polytunnel today. If you don't like spiders...too late. Spiders are great little hunters, mostly hunting the things that like to feast on me!

#Spiders #Insects #Ireland #Gardening
September 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I stayed here watching the fish dance with the current of the river. Lovely sight to start the day.

#Nature #Ireland #River #EastCoastKin
September 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Took these pictures while out with Acquired Brain Injury Ireland with my #Canon #DSLR. I really like the way you have to really look to see everything. Delighted to get out with my camera more.

#Photography #CityScapes #DublinCity #statue #EastCoastKin
August 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The #AvivaStadium as seen from the River Liffey, looking down the River Dodder. Preparations were well underway for the American Football game. I also preferred Lansdowne Road as a stadium, but you can't say the Aviva doesn't look better.

#AmericanFootball #AerLingus
August 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A beautiful moth caterpillar and a butterfly.

Stop and look around, it's later than you think.

#Insects #butterflies #moths #Ireland #nature #EastCoastKin
August 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Using @developers.google.com for Alt information. My wife got the drone fly, I patiently manually focused on the orb weaver spider.

#Photography #nature #Ireland #EastCoastKin #insect
August 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Once again, for those in the back, our native pollinators love dandelions and thistles. There was an abundance of these butterflies out today.

#LifeHack get rid of your weeds by calling them flowers. 👍

#butterflies #pollinators #nature #insects #Ireland
August 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Here's a secret that "big tidy garden" doesn't want you to know...birds and bees love thistles and dandelions.

#Nature #Bee #thistle #flower #photography
July 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Decided to force myself out for a walk this morning. Delighted to walk one of my favourite routes I haven't seen in months and see it hasn't been touched. Pollinators and wild flowers everywhere. Pollinators, like bees and birds, are the best gardeners.

#Nature #Ireland #Bee
July 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Birthday pints are different. Enjoying a Birra Moretti while the kids howl "it's too hot!" at home. Little do they know, even though it's my birthday, I can't in fact change the temperature.

#BirraMoretti #Pints
July 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Forced myself out of my newly created comfort zone yesterday and met friends for pints and cinema. I was becoming more and more like a turtle, retreating into myself, my wife all but demanded I go out. Laughing is good for the soul.

#StrokeRehab #Beer #Cinema
July 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I have a very useful #gardening #lifehack. If you want to get rid of nuisance weeds and nettles in your garden, just start calling them flowers. Nettles, when given the chance, grow a beautiful flower that pollinators love. Dandelions grow into a bush like growth that birds love. #nature
June 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Take a minute. Dogs are the most mindful creatures. I wish more people were like dogs.

#RescueDogs #Dog
June 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
With all the crap going on in the world, distract yourself with pictures of my #RescueDogs that I took today.

#Dogs #Springer #Lurcher
June 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Whilst my wife took the dogs for a walk, I relaxed with @irishrainforest.bsky.social, a Canon, and a coffee. I was patiently waiting for the local birds of prey, who, as my wife told me, seemed to follow her.

#Books #Coffee #Photography #Ireland
June 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Going to jump on #ThickTrunkTuesday because this oak is too good not to share.

#IrishOak #Ireland #Nature
June 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Never thought I'd miss jogging, but one step at a time, hopefully. Me after a long run in the Phoenix Park many KGs ago.

#Exercise #StrokeRehab #Jogging
June 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
After I attended an IHF social gathering in St Loman's Hospital in Mullingar I had an opportunity for a walk around. 1,300, at least, buried here. There's only about 10 crosses, still visited. Used up to 1971 apparently.

I can only imagine what those poor souls went through. 😞

#History #Ireland
June 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Thinking of getting back to cycling after I remembered that time I cycled the Slieve Bloom mountains with skinny tyres on the bike. Lots of slipping and low traction, faster, and far more terrifying, for the descent.

#StrokeRehab #StrokeRecovery #Ireland #cycling
May 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Love this picture of my daughter using my camera to capture the sunset in Sligo when we were camping. I miss these daddy-daughter trips. 😞

#Sunset #Ireland #Sligo #Camera #Photography
May 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Took this when walking back to the car. You can pose photos a lot, but sometimes the best ones appear randomly.

#Sunset #Ireland #Graveyard
May 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM