Out with friends

We went out for a walk with our friend Chrissie and her two dogs Amber and Griff this morning, they are two great little characters that I would like to introduce you to, so here they are Mr Griff and Miss Amber as they go about their business on a walk around the lake.

 

 

Miss Amber

 

 

 

Mr Griff

 

These are two great characters with Griff being a little Superhero who has and still is unwell but that does not stop him enjoying life and having a great time when out walking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12 Drummers Drumming - 12 of my feathery friends

So here we go on the last day - the first image is of not one Partridge in a Pear Tree but twelve of them foraging in the snow last year

 

 

plus twelve Brent Geese flying over head

 

 

and lastly here is a murder - a murder of Magpies

 

 

now for the other eleven

 

 

Eleven of natures decorations

 

Ten Crazy Cloud formations

  

 

Nine of our Mallards swimming

 

 

Eight Mares and Foals 

 

Seven Swans a swimming !

 

Six Geese a flying

 

Five Wabbit Rings

 

Four Colley Birds

 

Three French Hens

 

Two Blue Tits feeding

 

One Song Thrush in a Fir Tree

 

 

11 Pipers Piping - 11 of natures decorations

 

and so the eleventh day - I know it should be Monday but I am having Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off.  Today I thought it would be nice to do nature,s own winter decorations.

 

 

A very large Rose Hip

 

 

Ivy berries great colours and shapes

 

 

these little buds turn into wonderful white flowers

 

 

Dried Oak Leaves

these I call Spruce Nuts they are square and very small compared to normal cones

 

 

Pyracantha berries we have these yellow and also red ones here in the garden

 

 

here we have some of our miniature apples the are only about one centimeter around and later in the winter they will be devoured by the birds

 

 

little black gems - sloe berries - Sue soaks them in Gin for some reason ?

 

wild clematis seeds look great in winter and fill the trees around here

 

 

 

a Maple seed pod and lastly the mandatory teasel

 

 

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Ten Lords a-Leaping or 10 Cloudy Scenes

I had planned something else for today but on my way back from helping a friend I was mesmerized by the wonderful cloud formation that was resting in the Thouars Valley. These are real winter clouds, like the ones Santa uses so you don't see him flying in the sky with his reindeer- so here is a collection of ten of the images I took.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This last image is of the steam from our local Nuclear Power Station and I think is very reminiscent of a nuclear mushroom but without the flash, blast and fallout.

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