Walking Daisy Dog in the sunshine.

Walking Daisy dog in the sunshine.

Daisy dog went home this morning and I miss her already. It’s not just her company that I miss; I also miss the morning walk. Hopefully the habit of walking every morning will stay with me, I’ve really enjoyed it and I know it’s good for me.  

After the first few walks the rout became established, we took the same path every day and she knew where we were going.

 

 

We walked across the park, through the new millennium forest, past the old trees that were planted many years ago when the park was first opened and then through the manicured ornamental rose gardens. 

The rose garden is an old walled garden with ornamental archway entrances. The walls are very old red sand stone. There is fountain in the rose garden which sadly, hasn’t worked for as long as I can remember. 

It’s a simple design made from polished red stone which matches the red walls. I wish the local council would maintain this fountain,  I’m sure it would look lovely if it were full of water. 

I can imagine the sun shining through the fountain of water and sending rainbow patterns across the roses. Maybe I should mention it to them. After the rose garden and the disused fountain we always walked back by the sea. 

We walked through the park, down the bank, past the old cottages and along the beach, then home. Daisy dog enjoyed it and so did I, like I said, I miss her already. We were so lucky; the last couple of days of our walk together has been  wonderfully sunny with blue skies and blue seas. Every thing looks completely different in the sunshine to the way it looked a few days ago in the mist. Its the same place, but it looks like another world.

Walking Daisy Dog in the mist.

Meet Daisy, she is my daughters bearded collie.
My daughter is in Italy and Daisy is with me for ten days. We walk together every morning and this was todays walk. In the year 2000 our local council planted several small areas of native woodland in every town, they are known collectively as the Millennium Forests. 

That was 13 years ago, now look how they’ve grown. They started life a variety of indigenous trees and shrubs all about 18 inches tall. 

At the time people complained about the waste of money etc, etc………..some people are never happy, I thought it was a wonderful way to celebrate the millennium and now that they’ve grown, I’m even more appreciative of them. This ‘millennium forest’ was planted in a public park overlooking the sea; I love it here, even without the dog for company I love walking here. Today we have the sea mist rolling in. We woke up to it yesterday morning and it’s not lifted since,  it gets quite eerie sometimes, especially when the fog horns from the boats start sounding, they can be heard all over town. 

I couldn’t see the sea today, the mist was too thick. But I could hear it, and beneath that mist I think the sea was quite rough, I could hear the waves crashing and the sea birds squawking. 

With all that thick sea mist and the sounds of crashing waves, sea birds and eerie fog horns it was a bit like being on the set of some costume mystery movie. A bit like Tess of the d’Urbervilles revisited. 
This blog is a bit of a milestone, its the first one that is only posted here, no more reposting from here to to blogster and no more reposting from there to here, it feels quite liberating really. At last, here I am with only one blog home  :-)
And this is a painting of Daisy that I did for my daughter a while ago.

A walk in the forest, with photos.

 

19/11/2012

A walk in the woods. 

My daughter arrived this morning and asked if I wanted to go to the woods and walk the dogs. 

I’ve not done that for a while, so I thought it would be nice. It was cold, but dry with bright blue skies. 

This is exactly the time of year when winter creeps in to overthrow autumn. 

Every day more and more leaves lie on the ground and more and more of the skeletal trees emerge.