Lone Pine Lodge

Just too tired to post, Beth had knee replacement surgery at the beginning of March and I have been walking the dogs every day instead of every other. She was able to take over her share for the first time last Tuesday. It is amazing how more awake I feel.

And it was this is what kicked me into posting



Iam a member of a knitting forum called Knitting Paradise and this picture has just been posted in the general conversation section of the forum. I have no idea where it was taken or when just that the poster lives in Ohio and it was sent to her by a friend.

On the way back from taking the close up I realised I had a lovely view of my house, it's the one with the wooden over door shelter with black tiles.


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Dawn,or at least the first view of the sun that day, ove the Nevern esturay Newport Beach.


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We were walking around the local sports field which is bordered on one side by the river Ebbw. Which can look beautiful.


Then you push through some bushes and see this, a remnant of our heavily industrialised past.



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You have already seen the panorama of the Llangors Lake, meet a few of the natives. These are two of many very tame wild swans, the tourists feed them. From their behaviour over the ten minute I observed them, the one in front is a female probably too young to mate but old enough to attract the male . He was chasing her all over the place and she was running away not running to be caught.

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Under the cut are the cut are the other natives.
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Today we started early and head up to bedwelty field to allow the youngsters to release enough energy for the trip to Brecon while the old men bumbled along with the humans. Hugo is a very good excercise coach as he heads of into the wild blue yonder like an Exocet from its launch pad followed by Cas, Dylis, Kattie, Saffron and Kandi. When he gets about 100 yards awayu he turns and hares back followed by his Harem. Daily follows them not because he likes to chase Hugo but becvause he is deeply in love with Cas and follows her every where. After about 10 minutes The Shelties are exhausted and Cas is bored so we saunter back to the van and set off. We considered going through Brecon and up in to the mountains for lunch but I spotted the sign post to Llangorse Lake on the way in to Brecon and suggested we go there instead. sallymn you may know the name as Time Team have dug a cranog just off shore there, I think a long way away from the public area we were in but the PTB have built a rpelica of what ti would have looked like. You can see it on the left hand size of this panorama.

Every night when it gets towards bedtime when ever I move in my seat Saffron and Kandi stop what ever they are doing and look at me just in case I'm going to stand up and get them their supper time dog biscuit. Last night Saffron was asleep and Kandi was beginning a stretch. And as I swung my legs down from my foot stool she froze and stayed long enough for me to take a photo.



She actually stayed that way for about 3 minutes . I could have taken my time and not got what ever is blocking the right hand side.

Saffron was a sleep in one of the baskets but the flash must have wakened her because she was staring at me too.
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On Monday I took a cousin over to Caerphilly for an interview and while he was in there I took my camera for a walk arounf the out side of the castle.
The first photo shows what tghe castle was like before Cromwell knocked it about a bit. It's difficult to see but there is a very narrow bit of moat going around the outside of the tower on the left as you are looking at it.
Under the cut is what it looks like to day.



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Well I'm back and with a few photos so here goes.
Here's my firts. My new camera does panoramic so this is is Newport Beach from one headland to the other. Click to see bigger version.



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I have also been doing some retail therapy on line, I had enough money saved at long last to replace my old heavy duty Kodak with it's current replacement.


I bought it on line and it arrived via UPS yesterday afternoon. This morning I have been seeing how it works ( here be more photos )