Clicking Away at Kedleston

Kedleston

June 28th 2018

 

Today we settled on a return visit to Kedleston and Helen J, Maggie, Alison and Pam all had fun playing hide and seek with Helen M and Betty who arrived a little after the 11.04 rendezvous time and tricked everyone by arriving in a little white car rather than a big blue van.

 

But eventually we all came together and headed for the café in the glorious sunshine, sadly Jo, Julia, Charlotte and Lynn weren't able to join us and we all sent love and big virtual hugs to Lynn.

 

After a good chat and a catch up on what everyone has been up to we set off on a walk which thankfully took us through the woods out of the blazing sun.

Here we all are on the lawn ready to set off on our walk - I wonder what we might find in the woods!

 

Today's challenge was to take a prize winning photograph so there follows a series of numbered photographs, three from each of us, each one intended to capture something of our day so who has done the best - you decide!

 

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Each one a mini masterpiece in it's own way I think you will agree!

 

Who's photograph will be the best?

 

Perhaps it will be this one

 

Look - that's a good view, no it's better from this angle...

 

Betty can't understand why we keep stopping - but she is enjoying the shade.

 

It was a lovely walk through the woods, the trees were beautiful, if only someone had a book about trees we could have identified lots of them! The bird count was only 14 although we did see an oyster catcher which is a new one for this years list.

 

We also learnt that if you were very posh back in the olden day you could have a pet hermit and we saw the lovely little house that he could live in (or she - I'm sure there were lady hermits - or were they something else...)

 

Pam even did some homework when she got home - perhaps she is thinking of applying for the post!

 

 We were a bit late for lunch when we got back to the café but we managed to get the late few sandwiches although some of us had to supplement them with cake. And Maggie gave us a short lesson about Kedleston Hall, perhaps we should all theme each room in our house to reflect our travels - the Skegness room should be a lot of fun!

 

It certainly was a cracking day!