Forget About Your Worries and Your Strife.....

Many years ago when we lived someplace else, we used to drive home a meandering country road.  This mostly providing "cultivating" opportunities for me, but also allowed us to enjoy the countryside.

One such afternoon as we were returning from our weekly shop, both children on board, we noticed, as we drove past a field, a sheep laying on its back, legs in the air.  

After much plaintive whining from both Children and myself, we managed to talk Si into clambering over the fence, and approach the sheep to see if anything could be done to assist.

As he caught himself on the barbs, and stumbled over the lumpy muddy ground all the other sheep started bleeping alarmed.  The one on it's back started to struggle and wriggled around so much it actually managed to right itself.  It hopped to it's feet and ran as fast as it could away from Si.  

How we all cheered!  Daddy saved the Sheep.  (actually probably near scared it to death.. maybe it liked being on it's back today).

I took it upon myself to determine that we would travel that way home today, hoping perchance that I may be able to force Si into another muddy field for exciting blip opportunity.  

As it was, the beauty of the countryside bit my arse.  

The sun was shining thru gaps in fluffy white clouds highlighting parts of fields, and making me actually believe that I could comprehend light and shade and draw something.  There were little sheep in the fields, there were daffodils, and the air was so clear, we could actually see, not only to Ailsa Craig, Pladda, Campbelltown, and Loch Lomond, but to Ireland as well.

I commanded a stop at a pretty gate (inspired by Dotty), and glanced over and caught mother and babies enjoying the view over to Arran.

I fired off many shots and then turned to look across the rest of the field.

My heart sunk.  There about 20 feet away from me, was a lumpy mess. Still and unmoving.  I turned my head quickly and tried to banish the image from my mind.

I turned back to the car and climbed in.  I told Si what I saw, and gave him the petted lip.  He shook his head, but climbed out the car anyway and went over to 1the gate.

He stood there for a moment or two, and then turned back and shrugged.

I scrambled out of the car, and back over to the gate, and there, where the lumpy little mess had been were the most gorgeous lambs in the whole world!  

I promise.