Dorset lifestyle
It’s the first day of Spring, the day when the sun crosses the equator and the tilt of our hemisphere means the days are warmer and longer. Certainly true of yesterday when the sun shone all day and the bumble bees and brimstone butterflies were flying around. The Hyacinths have done well to overwinter, they must like it in the border, the shallow dish behind needed to be topped up with water for the hedgehogs. The day ended with a glorious orange sunset.
The endless view from the Long Barrow above Pimperne, part of the Dorset Cursus which once stretched for six miles along Cranborne Chase, three times the length of the Great Cursus at Stonehenge. Saw two Brimstone butterflies making their way along the ivy filled hedgerow where they will have been hibernating over winter, the warm sunshine waking them, they need to survive the still cold nights. Walked the donkeys down to the bottom paddock, the sheep had to take a different route to get to their grazing, proved to be problematic with Nola and Pixie deciding to take an alternative route! A cool misty start to a warm day with light winds and a lovely sunset.
