It was a lovely sunny day today, and resolved not to spend all of it flopped on the couch eating chocolate. So, I took Neko for a good long walk.
Our path to the disused railroad tracks, and the bog.
Some curious locals.
Such a lovely day.
I took Neko off the lead: she is very good and always stays behind me. Until I turned around to go back and suddenly she found herself playing at pack leader. I didn’t let that go on for long.
Gorse in bloom, at the end of December. Go figure.
Beautiful colours in the dead bracken.
A beautiful mess of a stone wall, dead trees and a little bridge in the distance.
More curious locals – they look like twins! Same white cowlick (sorry, I had to say it). They didn’t care about me, just Neko.
The sun is so low on the horizon this time of year. This was about 3:30 or so.
Hurry up, Neko! No, you can’t go in the field with the cows. Trust me on this one.
She’s not as innocent as she looks!
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That looks like a great walk. It is so beautiful there.
It’s good to get out now and again and stomp around and actually look at what is around you!
Do you think there are “bog bodies” in there?
Probably not around here. In my hubby’s lifetime they found some really ancient butter that was buried – and it was still good.
What? lol
Yep! No oxygen, so still edible. And the tannins I suppose acted as a preservative on the outside. I’ve seen the bog bodies at the museum in Dublin, way cool.
I misread that first as “ancient butler.”
LOL I reread the whole sentence with the word “butler”, that would have been a funny (and puzzling) moment for you lol!!!
Actually, I had to read that again, and I thought she either made a typo or there was another meaning to the word “butter” that I didn’t know. Ancient butter. Edible. I’d love to taste it!!
Here we came to see a dirty tale of mud and mayhem and all we got were pretty pictures of a lovely country walk 😀
Hahhahh! She was surprisingly clean when we got home! Just some spatters. Being an Akita, she’ll clean her lovely white legs like a cat, too. Once daddy is back from shopping and she can relax again, of course.
What a beautiful place…I do love a cow..however the Gorse..arggggghhhh it’s our damn nemesis here…trying to get rid of it..we can’t burn off now restrictions are in and ours is starting to come back too..mongrel of a thing…nothing like a prickle in the boot to drive a woman berserk hahaahahah hope your New Year is fab!! didn’t get round to the Deth nog but I shall……hugs Fozziemum xxx
How fun for you. I can’t wait to be back to 100% so I can take the dogs hiking again. I miss that so much. Happy New Year and stay safe.
That’s my wish for you this new year! X
Don’t trust the cows! They are the same world wide.
Oddly these pictures look very much like winter in East Texas – sigh. Not there this year, but we have some odd little yellow wild flowers perking up the landscape, too.
Hope the new year brings much laughter and many adventures!
How lovely and I adore your sweet doggie and cows too! HAPPY NEW YEAR WOOT WOOOT!! ♥
Sorry! Happy new year to you, too 🙂
Just in case the first one didn’t take…
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! ♥
Neko’s an akida, right? I met an amazingly sweet and smart akida seeing eye dog a few weeks ago at a holiday party. I didn’t know they could be seeing eye dogs! I’ve only ever seen labs.
Yes, she’s an American Akita – the Japanese ones will never have a black muzzle. They were police dogs and babysitters in ancient times (the Japanese ones). Ours is a bit dumb, but I prefer slightly dumb dogs: less damage from boredom! Not that you’d know anything at ALL about that! Hehhe