Picture of Lily

Ploutering amongst the lily pads a little chick.  

It was lovely to see all the mallard ducklings with mum doing what mum's do best keeping them all together and finding tasty morsels early doors this morning. Dad had had enough, was looking very bedraggled now and had pulled himself up onto a floating board for a bit of a preen. 

Sitting there on a fisherman's platform the silence of the morning was a mindful moment. A kingfisher flashed blue in the distance, a tern swooped and dived onto the lake, the damsels danced in the grasses and there was heat from a low sun on my back. Just beautiful. 

Out to a friends garden for a scrummy lunch and catch up - probably not pausing for breath at any point.