In a sunny break from the mizzle of drizzle and more rain again, I managed to get a few things to eat for the weekend and then took a rather miffed mutt to somewhere he loves to explore. He's miffed because I've not been feeling too well for a while now and so walks have been mostly short. So he decided to make the most of the fact that ... due to the recent watering we've had locally the water is flowing all the way down off the mountain, gurgling down the steep slopes
<<< to here, before continuing on its journey out of sight underground.
But first he had to find something the play with, the bigger the better as far as he is concerned.
Sure enough below the beech trees where the leaves gather into "dog-diving" piles, he found what he was looking for ... a branch that was longer than him and therefore a challenge, something he gets real pleasure from by proving that he is up to the mark and no matter how hard he has to work at it, he will move it to the next best place to play in ...
and what better than a pool of water to splash about in. These pools are partially artificially created by the farmer whose ground this is. It gives fresh water for horses and sheep and ... daft, diving dogs!
He just loves water, especially the sea, but today fresh flowing streams gave him plenty of chances to get extra wet whilst luckily, I stayed dry and took the chance to take photo's but ... unusually for him, today he was not camera shy ...
even crossing in front of me just as I lined up a shot, indeed he spoilt many photographs today, getting in the way even when I was concentrating on real close ups, of the new growth springing up in amongst the mosses, he was sticking his nose in but I was still able (finally) to capture this wonderfully red headed lichen amongst the greenery of the sphagnum moss.
We returned cold and both just got dry & hibernated for most of the rest of the day.
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