After lunch today, with, as usual, SueW’s help, I recovered the pictures to the following posts:
This afternoon Jackie and I took a forest drive.
When I photographed these grasses in and the log teepee beside a section of Hatchet Pond that I had often photographed before I had not realised that I was about to learn that this was known as Little Hatchet.
Approaching a larger area of the lake I noticed sky borne evidence that a woman was tossing food for gulls
and a pair of swans who she told me were Norman and Nancy, who normally had their home in Little Hatchet, where Flo and I had photographed them with their cygnets on 27th May.
Each year they chased the other Cygnus family away from this section, where I had photographed them before Christmas, and took possession of the spot in case they would like to move home.
We drove on to Furzey Lane where Jackie noticed, and photographed, that the thatcher’s donkey on a rooftop had provided even more material for nesting birds.
She also focused on the landscape into which the avians had probably carried their stolen straw.
Nearby stands the Furzey Lodge Pound, which we have never before seen occupied.
Today there were three residents.
This evening we all dined on perfect pork chops with mustard sauce and almond topping; sautéed new potatoes and leeks; roast sweet potatoes and mushrooms; crunchy carrots, and tender green beans, with tasty gravy. I drank more of Gran Selone and no-one else did.