Toys were having fun on this morning’s forest drive.
Horses’ heads peered over a fence at Winsor; an elephant perched with blanket on a postbox alongside Deazle Wood,
where a solitary sow vacuumed acorns beneath an oak tree. Can you spot her in the first of these three pictures?
The ancient bank behind the postbox exposing raised roots separates the fields from the woodland,
which has its share of arboreal casualties, sometimes sporting bracket fungus.
Mossy roots abound.
A shallow pool manages to reflect the trees above.
On the road to Bramshaw ponies foraged down a dry ditch opposite a sow with her numerous offspring who eventually trotted off after her into the woodland.
Beside the church a grey pony squeezed herself between a fence and an oak tree.
This evening we all dined on Hordle Chinese Take Away’s excellent fare.