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Another brilliant Lucan Parade!
It was great to see so many out in the fine weather, albeit it cold, on Monday last. Congratulations to all the groups who took part, and well done to all the Parade Volunteers on a great job!
Spring Equinox already, as we go to press on Thursday morning 20th March, and just another week to go until the clocks change. Spring is certainly in the air ....
Items held over ....
In case anyone is wondering why their article has not appeared yet in Lucan Newsletter, we have a few items held over due to pressure of space. Never fear, we will include them over the next few weeks!
Happy Big Birthday
Johnny
on 22nd March.
Enjoy your special day!
St. Mary's Camera Soiree
Frances was out in Hillcrest and captured some of the participants in the Lucan St. Patrick's Day Parade on camera. There was a very interesting documentary on RTE 1 on the day about the saint. It appears that there were Christians in Ireland before the arrival of Patrick and that prior to Patrick’s arrival Pope Celestine 1 had sent the Frenchman Palladius as bishop of the Christians of Ireland.
Turning to the present day, Brendan sent in a photo of the Hermitage Golf Club House taken from an unusual vantage point.
He treated us to a sunny March morning in St. Catherine's Park and also provided a closeup of Willow Catkins. Catkins have a very important role in spreading tree seeds, thereby allowing the tree to reproduce and show us that Spring is well and truly on the way.
Brendan also gave us a fascinating example of the refraction of light in photography. If you look closely at the raindrop in the photograph of daffodils you can see the reflection of a daffodil in it. Refraction is the bending of light as it passes from one transparent substance into another. Refraction also happens with sound, water, radio and other waves.
This bending by refraction makes it possible for us to have lenses, magnifying glasses, prisms and rainbows. Even our eyes depend upon this bending of light. Without refraction, we wouldn’t be able to focus light onto our retina.
Until next week stay safe!
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