Birds on the wire

The spring and summer is welcomed by the reappearance of birds around our house. It always amazes me to think that some have travelled thousands of kilometres from other continents to make their journey back.

We humans for the most part give out and complain about the habitual and the banal and slightest discomforts. Try flying to Africa as a little bird and then come back to me with your complaints!

Dogs in the lake

There's nothing our dogs love more on a hot summer's evening than having a swim at our local lake.

Once you see these two getting back in the water together, you know Summer is on the way.

Our Springer Coco will get in year round, but our Pug cross only gets into warmer water!

Cows in the fields

The smell of muck spreading and the appearance of cows just over the back wall of our home is a sure sign that the Summer is landing.

The cows spend the winter inside in sheds and it's only when the fields dry out that we see them out the back again.

My wife especially loves them, as she has an unusual affinity for cow's noses.

Sheep out of sheds

The sheep out on the farm are running free again. They are out of their sheds and soon they will be shorn for their wool.

That's a necessity as it makes them too warm in the summer months if you don't shear it off and they are also dipped for maggots.

The wool has also zero value to the farmers these days and it is hardly even economical to deliver it to the factory to be weighed, as the price of wool is woefully bad at 5c per kilogram.

The images used throughout are all my own captured on my Samsung Smartphone

Thanks as always for stopping by everyone.

Peace Out