The hedgerows around Ireland are currently filled with tiny fledgling birds just learning to fly. It can be quite startling when they drop out of the sky and plummet towards your windshield as you drive along, but somehow, thankfully, they manage to flit away just in the nick of time. I started looking at other tiny things I’ve happened across on my travels, like this ever so tiny ground squirrel trying to be invisible on the slopes of Mount St. Helens.

A teeny tiny Holi reveller getting to grips with all that colour.

The biggest view imaginable, of three separate nations, visible through one tiny keyhole in the gate to the Villa del Priorato dei Cavalieri di Malta at the top of Rome‘s Aventine Hill. I took this photo through the keyhole.

As churches go, this one has got to be one of the tiniest. Billing itself as the World’s Smallest Church, the Cross Island Chapel just outside of Oneida, NY, measures just 51 inches by 81 inches.

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xxx Ailsa

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Henry Stanley Haskins

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. – Gustave Flaubert