Part 1 and a story in itself.
A beautiful August afternoon is the perfect time for a nice shady walk out of the heat, it’s mad how I want heat but then avoid if for the pups comfort.
We went to the local goat rescue and walked through to the old railway branch line promising to meet the animals on the way back when some of their excited energy had burned off.
Beneath the trees a coolness hovered offering a break from the sun with little flashes of its light tempting us out through the canopy.
Most of the railway has a fence to keep walkers from the fields so it makes most of the walk safe you mainly have to be aware of other ramblers.
We walked to the bridge and watched the geese, who in turn watched us. The girls played Pooh sticks with some little leaves 🍃 🍂 🍁 from the ground, the geese thought us silly but not in the least bit interesting and went for a nice cooling swim so we crossed the bridge and walked a little further.
Birds sang, unseen creatures moved in the undergrowth and amongst the trees the light was slightly green and very peaceful. You could have been in woods as easily as in this odd little strip of land from which the railway departed so many years ago.
We didn’t see anyone else on the path and when we came to a more open and therefore brighter, lighter and hotter area it was time to go back. The girls had a little drink and slowly with many explorations they made it back to the big gate at the goat rescue.
As it was their first visit I had kept the girls to the picnic and games side walking in but I walked them in the middle, they did have a drink at the side of the horses who looked over the fence at them almost unnoticed and with no barking.
Part 2 is more pics of my girls looking at the rescue animals and what happened, it’s another little story that will stand alone or join to this and will be with you soon.
Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed our walk.