Ireland snaps - Port, County Donegal

I promised to post more pictures of the Irish and American settings for FALSE MERMAID...

This batch is from An Port, County Donegal, the model for my abandoned fishing village of Port na Rón, or Seal Harbor. It's a beautiful, desolate place, surrounded by blanket bog. All you can hear is the noise of the surf knocking stones together on the beach.

My favorite sort of spot!

Bogland near Port, County Donegal

Looking back towards Glencolumbkille from Port, County Donegal

The harbor at Port, County Donegal

The stony beach at Port, County Donegal

Bridge at Port, County Donegal

Looking down on the  harbor at Port, County Donegal

Lumpy pasture at Port, County Donegal (ovine evidence in lower left!)

Pier at Port, County Donegal

Waterfall on the far side at Port, County Donegal

Conjuring images

Hardcover copies of FALSE MERMAID are supposed to be arriving next week, and the giddiness is setting in. I'm trying to revisit all the images that helped shape the story, to begin putting together the multimedia presentation that will resemble the slide show that plays in my head: a leaf-littered riverbank, scullers on still water, the polychromed ceiling of a library reading room, an abandoned village, craggy cliffs and seabirds and curious seals. These are all the pictures in my head as I think about FALSE MERMAID, and that I hope to conjure in the reader's imagination. I'll start posting some pictures here to give you an idea...