Just Too Short

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I took a couple of strolls around the garden with a camera this morning. Sculpture Florence turned her back on the early light streaming from the Rose Garden.

Overnight rain had refreshed fuchsias, geraniums, hydrangeas, and dahlias, in one of which

a bedraggled bee risked drowning.

Our red hot pokers are over now, but other kniphofias of more autumnal hues stand erect in the Weeping Birch and other beds.

White solanum continues to drape itself over the dead tree beside the New Bed.

Spiders lurk everywhere. Look closely at the close-up of the hanging basket at the corner of the Phantom Path.

This afternoon Jackie drove me into the forest.

Along the Rhinefield Road a rather young foal foraged far from his parent who looked to be away in the distance.

A little further along a forest sprite impersonated the upper section of a dead tree escaping the clutches of its parent body.

Along the Rhinefield Ornamental Drive dry layers of fallen leaves and pine cones offered a spring to my step and to those of a lone walker. A carved cone marked a route.

Passing the trough on Wootton Common we noticed that it was surrounded by cattle vying for a drink. By the time we had turned round to park the car near the animals, they were all trooping off along the moor.

Ah, not quite all. Just one diminutive creature had been left behind. In vain did this Marshmallow cow, time and again, circle the trough attempting to slake her thirst. Even her neck was just too short. Eventually she hit on a super wheeze. She tried the human spout. I wonder if the next two-legged drinkers will have any idea about who had preceded them.

This evening the three of dined on Jackie’s roast beef; Yorkshire pudding; pigs in blankets; roast potatoes, sweet and normal; crunchy carrots, tender runner beans; and gravy solid with onions and mushrooms. Elizabeth and I drank La vieille ferme 2017, while the Culinary Queen drank Hoegaarden.
 
 
 

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  1. Love that you captured that ‘forest sprite’ Derrick – and the beautiful forest walk was most enjoyable – I ambled through there with my coffee in hand 🙂 And finally the very clever marshmallow – now she may well teach all the others to do that too.

  2. A lovely tiny break from work to walk with you…glad you pointed out the forest sprite…I might have missed him in my haste. 🙂

  3. I especially like the Sprite. Garden pictures are as wonderful as ever and a real inspiration. Today in the garden I have been painting fences. Tedious but essential maintenance!

  4. LOVE that little marshmallow cow. I’ve never seen such an animal. Your forest photos were especially lovely, and I enjoyed the spider in his web.
    I agree with Pleasant Street: Jackie’s dinner sounds like a triumph!

  5. OH! so many beautiful whimsical captures, Derricks! Raindrops on flowers, bees, spiders, forest sprite, sunlight shining in the forest, pinecones, etc! I especially love the little cow!!! 🙂 I laughed out loud at what you said about the two-legged drinkers who will drink water there next! 😀
    HUGS!!! 🙂

  6. So many wonderful photos–again, Derrick, I can’t choose a favorite. I liked the raindrops on the geraniums, and the aptly named and captured wood sprite and the trail through the woods. . .That marshmallow calf is adorable–as well as determined.

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