Views of the sea

As promised some sea views this time, but I couldn't get away from including some wild flowers as they are in abundance around here at the moment!

On our almost daily walk in this direction down to the sea, the red valerian is framing the view.

We frequently meet other local dogs that are enjoying the beach too!

Sunset at West Bay

Early evening light at Eype, before heading down to a barbecue on the beach.

We recently discovered this viewpoint looking along the Chesil Beach towards Portland, it clearly shows the inland water of the Fleet.. This week we had the pleasure of meeting one of my favourite gardening blogging friends, Sigrun and her partner from Hillside Garden who were staying in Portland. It was just a shame that when they visited us, the weather here was cold and grey.
It was lovely to show them our garden, their English was so good and Sigrun is so knowledgeable about English gardens, as she has visited so many over the years. Sigrun would love some more English blogging friends so if you haven't met her do pop over to her website and say hello. It's not a problem if you leave comments in English and you can easily translate her posts.

Another fellow blogger Philip Strange, alerted me in last week's comments that the fields around Stonebarrow were full of wild flowers. As the sun was shining on Saturday and we needed to take the dog on a long walk we ended up heading in that direction. Do you notice that yellow field above, it was a like a beacon encouraging us to head in that direction. As we got closer we could see it was full of buttercups......

On our walk we also discovered our first foxglove in flower, caught our first glimpse of swallows and saw our first blue butterfly. so thank you Philip for suggesting this location, aren't blogging friends great?

The re- opening of Bridport Museum is only a couple of weeks off and the town is currently celebrating a Season of Heritage. We were so lucky that the sun shone over the weekend and we had an amazing parade when puppets aided by humans marched through the Town.  The puppets were made by a local artist and she was assisted by many local schoolchildren. There were some fantastic creations that included local historical buildings, boats, seagulls and fishes and tractors. The 12 foot 'Spirit of Bridport' towered over us, isn't she wonderful?

It is always good to join in with others and share in events, is anyone else taking part in the Great Get Together with the Big Lunch in June?  There are already 105,000 events taking place in the UK this year. I originally saw this idea at the Eden Project many years ago and this year we are getting together with our neighbours and having a street party! It is not to late to do something in your area too, for more details see The Great get together with the Big Lunch 2017.

 Wishing you a Happy and healthy week. Thank you for all your comments, I do appreciate them.

 Until next time.

Sarah x