Odd things

It was a day of surprises.

An old aeroplane with more than the usual number of wings flew across. This isn't bad for an image blown up from a speck on a photo taken on full zoom with a pocket camera. It's the tail-end of the air display season and almost every weekend I see aeroplaces from the Second World War flying overhead. However the likes of a triplane from the First World War are very much rarer.

Out on the trail I was surprised to see an official sign closing the route. Meanwhile a printed notice pinned to a tree told me what I needed to know - the problem was a fallen tree. That would not stop Brena and I. However I expect that it detered plenty of hikers who were directed to walk along a highway instead. How that could be any safer I fail to understand! But officialdom had deflected liability from its tree so someone must have been happy.

Here is the culprit, now cut into pieces. Isn't it amazing how the nanny state seeks to "protect" people from the slightest thing that is out of place. This spot is a couple of miles from the nearest car park therefore beyond the range of rank-and-file day-trippers. If someone could not step across the fallen tree, there was plenty of space to walk around it. Back in Transylvania we crossed such fallen trees on almost every trail. Once we spent a merry hour getting through a newly storm-ravaged wood where literally hundreds of trees lay fallen in a jumble one after another.

Then it was back to the trailer for Brena to graze and me to drink coffee as our shadows lengthened. I sat on the grass contented at the end of a pleasant ride. We'd walked, trotted and cantered nicely, though I had learned that my hip is not quite fully healed - to my surprise one trot diagonal caused a slight twinge of pain. The other diagonal was fine. Whilst I sat and thought, Brena mowed a semicircle of grass down to its roots. Each of us was happy, and I'd have liked to stay longer up there. But I needed to get home: ironically to mow the lawn. Now if I could contract that task to Brena.....

 

Comments

[Shirley]

Brena sure looks to be in good shape. I'm glad your operation went well, even if you aren't quite healed yet.