Living

 

This is one of my favourite walks.

The best time of the year...I think...is May when the wildflowers create

blankets of pink, white, yellow and other colours.

This picture was taken at the same time as the one I use on my header.

It was taken a couple of years ago when I took both of these photos.

The walk is from Caerfai Bay

around the Saint David's peninsular to

Porthclais

So many have commented on the picture that I have used as the header.

If you look carefully you can see

the convent of St Non's in the background

along with its little chapel (which is a delight to enter)

St David's mother is said to have been born in a cottage nearby.  The ruins are nearly visible in the picture. There is also a spring which is said to have healing properties!

It is such a lovely walk.

I am so sad that I can no longer do it!



A couple of weeks ago my mother was staying and we revisited so many favourite places.

One of them was Abereiddy with it's ruined cottages

abandoned,

so legend has it,

after a plague hit the area

We wandered around the corner to the blue lagoon

which was as beautiful as ever

There were a group of 50 first year geology students from Leeds University there.

All in their hard hats and listening to their lecturers.

I have to say that

we were very disappointed

when we stood aside to let them pass,

as they could get along faster than I  could,

that few....

if any even acknowledged us...

let alone said...

thank you.

One of their lecturers, however, stopped to chat and explain what they were hoping to acheive.

It was truly a wonderful place to be

on such a beautiful day!

We went a  little further around the coast to
 Porthgain....
the place where the material, that was quarried
 in Abereiddy,

was loaded on the boats

Now, unfortunately, it is just a shell of what it used to be ... but the harbour still remains

I have to say that I am feeling rather down this evening as we had a visit from 40 of our neighbour's cattle on Thursday.

They broke over the hedge in our back field....

luckily only about 10 of them came into the garden

but they have made a lot of mess!

My lawns are not what they were when I was able to mow and look after them....but....

It still upsets me....

This is just a small part of the area that they covered

These are some of the culprits

captured in the yards until they could be moved

I'm sorry that my blog has ended this way tonight

but

It's just the way I feel.......