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| Summer Market in Portadown |
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| My Belfast Mural Photos website | Photos taken in late June 2004|
 Sellers Two pretty ladies from the continental market display their French confectionary product stall in the Magowan Buildings shopping centre in town. |
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 A taste of Holland Crowds flock around the Dutch cheese stall. |
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 Tops A large multicoloured display of bodywarmer tops for sale attracts the local shoppers. |
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 Clogs Another view of the cheese stall from the Netherlands shows an assortment of traditional dutch footwear. |
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 West Street An early morning chat before the pubs open in West Street on a fresh summer morning |
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 Guinness Time The site of Charlie McKeever's bar in Woodhouse Street greets shoppers returning from the town centre. |
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 Loughgall Road Council workers tend to the flower beds at this Loughgall Road roundabout. An unusual, prolonged heatwave had people sunbathing during May and June. Flowers and shrubbery had to be regularly watered. In the foreground an election poster looms ominously. |
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 Farmland The various muted colours of the farmer's fields beside the Corcullentra Road decorate the local countryside. |
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 Wildflower Meadow This beautiful wildflower meadow stretches along the edges of Corcrain at the Ballybay River. |
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 Honeysuckle The attractive flower of the honeysuckle bush proliferates along many of the countryside hedgerows near the town. |
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 Damsel The electric blue of the damselfly caught my eye as I walked along the banks of the River Bann. Dragonflies and other insects hovered elusively nearby. |
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 Daisies A carpet of ox eye daisies adorn the old railway embankment in Corcrain. The long abandoned Derry Road, which once ferried passengers from Portadown, through Dungannon and Cookstown is now a haven and refuge for wildlife, insects and wildflowers. |
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 Purple flower Another common wildflower found among the hedgerows in the area. |
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 Ladybird I remember one summer during my childhood, seeing thousands of ladybirds. I think there was an outbreak of almost epidemic proportions one year during the 1970s. |
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 St. Mark's Church St. Mark's Church stands proudly as citizens relax in the sunshine in the centre of town. The flower beds add colour to the scene. |