After lunch today I posted https://derrickjknight.com/2021/09/23/a-knights-tale-38-girls/
The day remained largely overcast, but reasonably warm, so, after a trip to Ferndene Farm Shop we took a drive among the forest lanes.
I am not sure what these tractors were doing alongside Preston Lane, but they were sending up clouds of dust.
We can never normally stop on the A35 to Lyndhurst, but, as a consequence of extensive bridge widening works near Holmsley, there are long tailbacks enabling me to photograph the adjacent woodlands from my window.
We turned left into the road to Burley where
Jackie parked the Modus in order for me to wander into the woodland
with its green and golden bracken, its live, dead, fallen, and decaying trees, and its magical views.
Later, I scanned three more of Charles Keeping’s illustrations to ‘Our Mutual Friend’, each one bearing recognisable portraits of characters previously depicted.
‘Wegg held the will tight, while Venus searchingly and attentively read it’
‘The darkness gone, and a face bending down’
‘Bella kissed her on the cheek’
This evening we dined on second helpings of our Red Chilli takeaway, with which Jackie drank Hoegaarden and I drank more of the Fleurie.