One of the
pleasures of living in the country is seeing how the seasons seamlessly move
on, and the animals – both domestic and wild – move with it.
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| Scabious in bloom - lovely! |
Our
wildlife meadow is now just past its best but the Scabious has just come into
flower as it always does late in the season, giving a blue sheen to the field
and providing a new source of nectar.
The
Swallows have just raised their second batch of young who left the nest
yesterday for the first time.
Soon we will
see the lines of Swallows who gather above our yard ready for their long flight
back to their Winter home.
The goats
who have spent the Summer sleeping in the outbuildings, as they always do, have
started to spend more time at night in the main barn they will inhabit throughout
the Winter.
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| Aunt Dotty - bless her. |
And Aunt Dotty our cow,
although she still has more than enough grazing outside has started to meander
into the barn now and again for a look around as if also getting ready for
Winter.
Now the
grass has finished its early flush when it is as its most lush, Jeremy our
oldest horse who suffers from painful laminitis, can now spend more time
outside without the risk of the rich grass causing a recurrence.
The
evenings are really drawing in now and nature seems to be on the change again.
In between all this run up to and Christmas celebration we
have been dealing with this weather and the issues it brings when caring for
our animals on a daily basis. So it was
lovely to see a break in the rain today; we duly rushed down to the coast and
the sea looked like this…
