A morning on the beach

It was a beautiful morning yesterday, gorgeous blue skies, warm sunshine, not too much wind, just a nice gentle breeze, and the tide was going out. The dogs were going stir crazy at home, so we took them to the beach. Oh boy, did they go nuts! They raced through the surf at what seemed like 100 miles an hour, chasing each other in turn, Poppy plowing through the waves, and Hector jumping them like a gazelle. Well, more like Tigger actually, lolol, it was quite hilarious to watch, he seemed vertically airborne for such a very long time.

What a difference to when we first got Hector. Poppy had always loved the beach and the water, she is a real waterbaby, but Hector was scared stiff when we took him the first time. He almost bolted when we took him over the pebbles, the noise scared him so much! But we persevered and he got better and better, started dipping his toes into the water, then chasing Poppy through the shallow bits and finally, finally throwing himself in with joyful abandon.

I only had my little ancient camera with me yesterday, so the photos are pretty awful, but I hope they still convey the sheer and utter bliss the doggies experienced on the beach -


Of course, the lovely weather didn't last, it got quite grey in the afternoon, and in the evening it was chucking it down. Still, as long as we have a couple of hours to take the doggies out, I don't mind. Its pretty grey again right now, I just hope the weather improves for the weekend, I have a two-day outdoor event. Keep your fingers crossed for me, please. xx

Sea, sunshine and silly dogs

Wasn't it just the most glorious day today? The sky was a fabulous blue, its reflection tinting even our usually very grey sea lovely shades of blue. It was warm, breezy, in short it was an outdoors day. First thing this morning, when the doggies did their gardening ( tearing up the grassy slopes by running up and down at 150 miles an hour, and squashing the very few plants left in the borders by plonking their behinds down on them ), I was out there with them, just soaking up the sun. I was admiring the beautiful colour of the California Lilac, when I became aware of a deep humming, and then lots of tiny movements in the tree, and to my amazement I saw that there were dozens and dozens of bees, alighting on the flowers for a few seconds, busily flying off to the next one, and the next one, and making a wonderful display of gentle industriousness.

It was a very lovely sight to see, especially as there are so many worries about bees at the moment. I hope you can see the one bee I managed to take a pic of, lol! Silly things wouldn't hold still for me! I did wonder whether somebody in the neighbourhood was perhaps keeping bees. Hmm, I'll have to make enquiries.

In the afternoon we took the doggies to the beach. OMG, did they go nuts there, they loved loved loved it so much. Poppy is much more adventurous than Hector, she is in and out of the waves constantly, but even Hector managed to run through the waves a few times, not because he likes the water, lol, but because he was totally concentrating on chasing Poppy and didn't realise where she was leading him!

Crappy photo, but just look how blue the sea was today -


And just look how gorgeously blue the sky was -


We do believe in making the doggies work for their fun though, Poppy has to carry her own toys down to the beach -


Once down on the sand, that was it, they were off -


I am always amazed how colourful and interesting the beach is close up, when from a distance, it looks all so samey, grey-browny. All those tiny little things littering the sand, or growing on the rocks which are usually under water, are so fascinating -


We went home with two very tired, very wet and very dirty doggies, who promptly fell asleep as soon as we got back. BLISS!