A Nice Walk

Another nice walk with the U3A was around the coutryside of Little Baddow. Originally it was going to be in open countryside but because the weather had turned hot again our leader decided to go for the woodland option.

I prefer woods, the dappled shade, the soft leaves and soil underfoot, and the coolness. 

As usual we met in a pub car park. The area covered by our walk is very affluent, we passed some beautiful jaw dropping houses. 

Just around the corner from the pub we heard the familiar call of a peacock. We've had one in my village for a few weeks but he's gone now. This beauty above was in someone's drive. I wanted to get a good photo but I didn't want to trespass too far onto their property!

The lady in yellow in the middle of the photo above had mislaid her dog. Some of our party saw it running off in the opposite direction. It was an elderly rescue dog and a bit nervous but the lady was confident it would return, which it did. All was well.

A tranquil resting place

We saw some huge ant hills. It's difficult to see how big this one is because there was nothing to compare it with. It was about four feet wide by about three feet high.

Five miles later we were back at the pub for lunch

In the garden, I'm not sure if these were young peacocks,

the male didn't have the splendid tale. He approached very slowly

and eventually they wandered off together.

∼ Be safe and well ∼

Polly x