Cows near the Kennet and Avon canal

Helena and I drove to visit my sister in Calne today as we couldn't go there tomorrow which is Rosie's birthday.  She is slowly recovering from a hip replacement operation and can't drive her own car yet.  We decided to go out for lunch and Rosie found a pub sited beside the Kennet and Avon canal in the territory regarded as one of the crop circle centres of the country.

I had visited there many years ago when walking around a couple of crop circles which I always found very interesting as very well produced sculptural art. One year I helped to invigilate the Crop Circle Hoaxing competition held overnight at West Wycombe where John Michell, the doyen of earth mystery studies lead the jury.

No crops are yet in evidence other than swathes of yellow rape seed which I don't think will suffice.  The pub was busy and somewhat run of the mill, but we enjoyed ourselves and the drive there and back across the Wiltshire farmlands to the south of the extended Marlborough Downs.  Rosie knew the area well as she had lived only a couple of miles from the pub for some years in the 1990s. 

We left the pub with a mind to take some pictures possibly related to the canal, but nothing stood out as subjects except a small herd of white cows we'd spotted when approaching along the pub's drive.  They had moved to the rear of a paddock and we couldn't get up close which was a shame when we saw there were several very young calves. I stood by a fence and took a few pictures and we all commented how peaceful it felt just standing watching them sitting or grazing in the sunshine.