Web Developer, Photography Enthusiast & Father. From a small village in England. Now a Louisvillian with my wife & my beautiful Madeleine Daisy.Tumblr (3.0; @patrickquirke)http://www.aquirkeslife.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luxalhXfx71qb0exuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Madeleine</p>http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/13023484387http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/13023484387Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:39:16 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loyw9zQntg1qb0exuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Niece & nephew having a swinging time (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a>)</p>http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/8108223635http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/8108223635Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:03:34 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_louhlvH01B1qb0exuo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>My fantastic wife’s version of a chicago style deep dish pizza</p>http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/8022244765http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/8022244765Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:50:12 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_louhitp89T1qb0exuo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>I sure do love the sunflower season</p>http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/8022233639http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/8022233639Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:49:54 -0400sunflowers<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnrlk0gJir1qb0exuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Sunday worship! (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a>)</p>http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/7193436017http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/7193436017Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:55:12 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnkr3b679y1qb0exuo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>I love our farmers market so much life and enthusiasm for great produce. Amazing fruit and veg, wonderful meat especially the lamb from the Dreamcatcher farm.</p>http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/7060483825http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/7060483825Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:11:36 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljnxcy9MPD1qb0exuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Got me a Louisville Cardinal (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a>)</p>http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/4616064054http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/4616064054Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:05:21 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj9764HnPV1qb0exuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Happy Spring! (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a>)</p>http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/4400962740http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/4400962740Wed, 06 Apr 2011 23:13:19 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_liy1i6qphA1qb0exuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The beautiful signs of spring! #mostly365 (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">Instagram</a> at Cherokee park)</p>http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/4243172582http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/4243172582Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:37:20 -0400mostly365<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhx9e3LfvP1qb0exuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I want this house (Taken with <a href="http://picplz.com" target="_blank">picplz</a> in <a href="http://picplz.com/city/louisville-east-ky/" target="_blank">Louisville East, KY</a>.)</p>http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/3796367373http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/3796367373Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:56:30 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhrgbqxz8G1qb0exuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Got to love pancake Tuesday (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a>)</p>http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/3729999893http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/3729999893Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:40:40 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhr9ayd2Su1qb0exuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My Love! (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a>)</p>http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/3727044113http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/3727044113Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:09:00 -0500<p><div class="posterous_autopost"><div class="p_embed p_image_embed"> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/patrickquirke/IFBzzjmpAFCuHagqpgctdsJyfveqfCIyGhovwyJcmDFehimhrdkdjAJbayvH/diptic.jpg.scaled1000.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Diptic" height="500" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/patrickquirke/IFBzzjmpAFCuHagqpgctdsJyfveqfCIyGhovwyJcmDFehimhrdkdjAJbayvH/diptic.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500"/></a> </div> Frederick Law Olmsted the man who designed Central Park in New York also designed this wonderful park in Louisville Kentucky where I am a 2 minute walk away. The park looked so beautiful covered in snow I had to take photos.</div></p>http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/3724531577http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/3724531577Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:21:21 -0500Cherokeedipticdipticapp<p><div class="posterous_autopost"><div class="p_embed p_image_embed"> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/patrickquirke/BkuCDJDezlAdAjbAjFwqqJeavBqeEqvrDvuzFatHJmkwxyhadhvnAuHyHgAp/diptic.jpg.scaled1000.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Diptic" height="500" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/patrickquirke/BkuCDJDezlAdAjbAjFwqqJeavBqeEqvrDvuzFatHJmkwxyhadhvnAuHyHgAp/diptic.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500"/></a> </div> Beautiful sunset from our balcony in praiano Italy.</div></p>http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/3723875706http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/3723875706Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:33:13 -0500dipticdipticapp<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhpp8231iK1qb0exuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Etheopian extravaganza (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">Instagram</a> at Queen Of Sheba)</p>http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/3710943137http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/3710943137Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:57:40 -0500<iframe width="400" height="245" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iWE18YjLA8U?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>The above video, created by Alex Roman , is an ad for Silestone countertops. It may seem like a pretty standard ad (after all, what better way to sell countertops than to drop fruit onto them?), but the entire video is computer-generated. Get this guy developing video games, pronto.</p>http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/3645338942http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/3645338942Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:21:36 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7bh1d4SVO1qb0exuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>While unpacking our boxes i came across these classics, childhood memories come flooding back.</p> <p>My father once bribed me with Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi figures to walk across Scotland with him and my brother, i would have done anything for those figures.</p>http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/968652263http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/968652263Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:58:00 -0400star warsreturn of the jediretro<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6feur4nFT1qb0exuo1_500.jpg"/><br/> My favourite veg stall<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6feur4nFT1qb0exuo2_500.jpg"/><br/> Awesome carrots<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6feur4nFT1qb0exuo3_500.jpg"/><br/> Love the sunflowers<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6feur4nFT1qb0exuo4_500.jpg"/><br/> So colourful<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6feur4nFT1qb0exuo5_400.jpg"/><br/> Great folk music<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6feur4nFT1qb0exuo6_500.jpg"/><br/> Love this stall<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6feur4nFT1qb0exuo7_500.jpg"/><br/> Gorgeous Apples<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6feur4nFT1qb0exuo8_500.jpg"/><br/> Summer strawberries<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6feur4nFT1qb0exuo10_500.jpg"/><br/> Succulent plums<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6feur4nFT1qb0exuo11_500.jpg"/><br/> Huge peaches<br/><br/> <p><strong>Our Farmers Market</strong></p> <p><span>Every Saturday morning we get up early and venture out to our local farmers market, the produce is incredible. </span></p> <p>Organic vegetables, grass fed meat, beautiful flowers, herbs and honey.</p> <p>You really feel part of the community, meeting your local farmers, listening to live bluegrass music and felling the vibrant buzz and excitement from your neighbours.</p> <p>Summer is here and we are starting to see more produce added each week so it is really starting to get exciting.</p> <p>The peaches are huge and with the morning sun shining on these amazingly juicy fruits it was too tempting to just walk past them wit out endulging myself. </p> <p>As an Englishman the sunday roast is engrained in your bones and without one you feel lost so one of our favourite things to do is buy a pork butt from our grass fed farm and slow roast it accompanied by a variety vegetables (especially the purple carrots) we discover to roast.</p>http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/884441841http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/884441841Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:28:00 -0400farmers marketbluegrass musicsunflowersfruitvegetables<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6feb3vd9X1qb0exuo1_500.jpg"/><br/> Meercats Just chillin'<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6feb3vd9X1qb0exuo10_500.jpg"/><br/> Meercats Just chillin' too much it seems<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6feb3vd9X1qb0exuo11_500.jpg"/><br/> Turtle power!<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6feb3vd9X1qb0exuo12_500.jpg"/><br/> Just hangin' around<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6feb3vd9X1qb0exuo13_500.jpg"/><br/> I thought i saw a puddy cat?<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6feb3vd9X1qb0exuo14_400.jpg"/><br/> So pretty!<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6feb3vd9X1qb0exuo15_500.jpg"/><br/> Grazing!<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6feb3vd9X1qb0exuo16_500.jpg"/><br/> Biscuit the sea otter<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6feb3vd9X1qb0exuo17_500.jpg"/><br/> Rochester and Rowetta Rhino<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6feb3vd9X1qb0exuo18_500.jpg"/><br/> Dewi the donkey<br/><br/> <p><span> </span></p> <p><strong>A Day at Louisville Zoo</strong></p> <p>This weekend we paid for a years membership at our local zoo, we love animals and we are fascinated in there habits.</p> <p>I do sometimes feel sad for the animals but what I remind myself is that these animals have been rescued and brought here, if they were let out into the wild they simply couldn’t survive.</p> <p>The Meerkats i think were our favourites, they are so naturally funny, social animals i could watch them all day.</p> <p>I love taking photos of these beautiful creatures and so here are a few I took with a terrible camera I have. Time to get a new one before we go to the Amalfi coast in October.</p>http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/884409267http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/884409267Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400Louisville ZooMeerkats<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6ff26saHn1qb0exuo1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Happy 4th July</strong></p> <p><span>On behalf of my Country we were very sad naturally to lose you in 1776 over a trifling miss understanding, something to do with tea i believe, but obviously in another way we are very grateful to have lost you because if we hadn’t you wouldn’t be the America that you are today and i wouldn’t have had this extraordinary experience coming to what is a very warm and friendly, welcoming country and marrying such an amazing girl in Judi.</span></p> <p><span>Thank you and Happy 4th of July Y’all</span></p>http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/884452693http://www.aquirkeslife.com/post/884452693Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -040017764th JulyAmericaxs