Lone Tree, Partry Mountains, Co. MayoI was supposed to be learning about the workshop trade. A photographer friend had a group out in Co. Mayo that day, and I tagged along for a while before doing what I always do. Wandered off on my own. Joyce Country has a particular emptiness to it. Rolling bog, rough grassland, not much else. I'd been poking around a nearby oak forest when I spotted this single tree standing out in open moorland with nothing behind it but the Partry hills. No