Morning Walk

I had another solo walk around the hills of home this morning, and what a beautiful morning it was, the sky was completely clear, the sun blazing down and a refreshing chill from an easterly breeze.

Which leads to an interesting point - why is it that when we are travelling from east to west we are travelling westerly, when the wind is blowing from east to west it is known as an easterly wind?

Anyway we (Jay, the autistic spaniel and meself of course) finished up in Troy quarry, as Jay had decided to lie in a muddy puddle half way around the walk, he needed a swim to get the mud off before I let him into the car. Whilst lying in the margins up to his ears in water, waiting for me to throw his ball further in, he hadn't noticed the pair of irate Canada Geese who didn't really want him in their bit of the pond, plus of course he is so single minded he didn't realise the frantic honking noises were aimed at him. As he swam out for his ball, he noticed them.

I haven't mentioned before but he is not too fond of larger birds (He takes after me in some ways!!) For instance, our garden is a no-fly zone for pigeons, crows, magpies and helicopters all of which he chases and barks at, if they happen to fly across our airspace.

So when he realised the two geese were homing in on him He attempts to bark at them - have you ever heard a dog gargle? the daft lad was trying to swim, carry a ball and bark all at the same time. Anyway the geese won, Jay decided discretion was the better part of valour and returned to shore pretending he wasn't interested in them at all.

The piccies show the geese approaching, and a general shot of the nearby clough-head quarry, that is an interesting shot showing the strata of the rock exposed by the quarrying.