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.