Monday, August 8, 2011

Walkabouts........

The Darwin Moors on a misty day...
The wild flowers seem to change weekly

This walkabout meant climbing hills -- moors -- not mountains!

A walking stick is the English way


and at the top of the hill in the middle of nowhere we find a mini castle, more like a monument built in honor Queen Victoria.

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Whenever we get a partially pleasant day that coinsides with our preparation day, we go on a walkabout. This day we went to Crook o Loon, a beautiful pastoral walk along the banks of the Loon River. Such scenes are postcard perfect......water, children playing, flowers, sheep, cows, pastures, stone bridges, blue skies and wide open spaces with no one around.......


Couldn't help but sing "Up the Lazy River by the old mill stream......"


Even the lanes are green right to the pavement


Flowers, flowers and more flowers.....


Every color of the rainbow

a lazy afternoon in the life of a sheep

what do you think it means when you really are the black sheep of the family


and a day would not be complete without a dip in the river.......



























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