A short break to celebrate a short girl

[glenatron]

The girl I love had an anniversary to celebrate and as she hasn't visited the west country much and she is a big fun of crystals, fairies and new-age tat, there seemed an obvious place we could visit if we took a couple of days away:


This one - the Tor from the Avalon Orchard - feels like it's just a couple of filters away from being a Phil Rickman cover.


Scabious and Cheddar. I think it's Scabious, anyways. It's definitely Cheddar.


Another photo of everyone's favourite cheesy tourist spot. That afternoon we went caving. herecirm, being small and tough, is super-good at caving. Being large and increasingly portly, I really am not. My shoulders still feel like a potato that got mashed.

After a couple of days away, we came home via the New Forest and as we had a few hours in hand we took a little circuit around the national park and met some of the ponies living there. New Forest ponies in the evening light turn out to be tremendously photogenic:



This little group backlit themselves beautifully.


Chestnut baby horse.


A small pony among the blooming heather.


Herd in the background.


I never met anybody I was more keen to celebrate than this one.

Comments

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

It was pretty great. The point where we went into a shop and the lady said "just to let you know there's a friendly wolf sleeping under that clothes rail, she sometimes makes people jump" won the prize for most Glastonbury thing ever.

[re-vised.livejournal.com]

That would be a great birthday present in and of itself!