Come for a walk!

[bunn]

A fabulous warm sunny day on Saturday.  I shall go for a long walk, I thought!  But when I got halfway up the hill, I remembered I still had a cold, and was very wheezy.  So I hastily rethought my route and paused to take some photos.  Here we are pausing, and admiring the early cherry tree.

Comments

[ylla]

I'm not exactly jealous of your cherry trees and daffodils, but, yeah. We're at snowdrops. Many many snowdrops, to be fair - they seem to be extra enthusiastic this year somehow.

The alpaca is ridiculously cute. I note that Rosie is wearing a coat and Brythen isn't - is that a Boy Thing regardless of species?

[bunn]

I think it's an unusually early spring, even for Cornwall - we are quite high up and on the north side of the hill, so usually we are much later than the seaside villages.

Rosie feels the cold a lot more than Brythen. They are about the same height, but she's about 10 kilos lighter, not as hairy and she has delicate whippet skin, rather than thicker normal-dog skin like Brythen, so on a slightly chill morning she'll be visibly shivering and he's quite happy. Plus, Brythen has lots of sense and is great off-lead and has a very reliable 'close' command, so I can let him hare about to get warm, confident that if I hear a car I can get him back to my side in plenty of time, whereas letting Rosie offlead is an exercise in careful location choice and crossed fingers!

[bunn]

... that said, Brythen is a ridiculously boy-ish boy-dog, and Rosie is a terribly girly girl dog.

My previous dogs were the other way around, people always thought my old boy Az was the girl because he was smaller and delicate with huge eyes, and Mollydog was the boy because she was more rufty-tufty looking and also a dedicated nudist :-D

[ylla]

Poor cold Rosie! She does remind me a bit of a very girly girl who was (rather unsuccessfully) on the committee of our dance group for a while...

Keeping warm by tearing about is also quite a typical boy thing, isn't it :) But I like the sound of the other two as well.

And I'm wrong about the flower - we have a few crocuses, but only sneaky white and lilac ones.

[marycatelli]

I haven't seen any snowdrops yet. But not only my crocuses but my tulips are pushing up -- and I'm pretty sure I saw a daffodil sprouts.

[bunn]

We had daffodils opening today!

[osprey_archer]

That washing is stunning with the light shining through it. Such rich colors!

As are the cherry trees, but you expect that of a cherry tree. The washing, not so much.

[bunn]

I know! You have to commend the washing-owner's taste in brilliantly-coloured underwear too, though perhaps the colours are partly the sunshine.

[bunn]

I wish I understood the odd connection between Rosie and that alpaca. She has known it since it was very little, and it's always been fascinated by her - perhaps because it was an only baby alpaca in a remote field, so its experience of other baby alpacas was limited.

[r_blackcat]

Ah, spring, spring! Beautiful photos, thank you. (19century's letterbox, wow!)

[bunn]

I had to take my coat off walking today, it was hot!