cows might fly

Porth Clais where they were bringing in the boats because 80 MPH winds are expected.

Providentially the kiosk was open.

We walked around to St Non's

and danced and picnicked again.  The evening was beautiful

and we danced at Bishops' Palace before dinner at the Saffron.

Mother and child

Today we walked to Caerfai - Shanah, like me, seeks the ocean.

Archie seemed pretty happy there too.  Then we walked to St Non's

and danced in the field where St David was born.

Funny sort of a day

as Steve's Mum would say.  It started with me thinking that a woman was being attacked by a seagull.

It turned out she was taking her owl for a walk.  I asked if I could take a photograph and a woman with a donkey came down the street, so I photographed them all.

Later I caught the bus to Haverfordwest to meet Shanah and Archie travelling on the London train.

Very reminiscent of Georgia's arrival and departure 3 years ago.

Of course the camera didn't want to play at the critical moment.  We had a chummy time on the bus with Archie's new friends from the train ride.

The inevitable

Yesterday was heavy rain and wind so I stayed home and read.  Today I was a little stir-crazy (interesting news item here in Wales about a girl who was killed by 4 dogs in a friend's house.  The current enquiry isn't into the girl's death but into the mistreatment of animals.  The dogs were said to be 'stir crazy' from being kept in the house) so I thought it was time to climb Carn Llidi.

The cromlech was to be my bolt-hole if the rain got too heavy.

I had to stay on the lee-side cos the wind was too strong - too strong to clamber up the final bit of rock.
I came home via a road I haven't walked before.

 Very agricultural until the city appears over the left hedgerow.

As I had hoped, the road went along the back of the Bishops Palace.

 Georgia's rose window is under repair

and the rooks from the Merrivale were on guard.

Heaven

Yesterday I found the perfect place - a 'thin place' - and danced the Earth Dance, the dance of gratitude.

Sunny Tuesday

Tuesday was so perfect I stopped walking and found a natural bench to lounge on and read my book.

I was disturbed only slightly.

Meditation 2

Whitesands, of course.

Obligatory reverent walk on the beach with Carn Llidi ahead.  Then to the Ram's Nose not fully visible on the left.

I haven't climbed here since I was a child with my Dad.

This time I thought of Georgia and her Welsh cap.  I think that is camomile growing there - I've never been able to grow it in the garden.

On to St Davids Head - with wild horses galloping in the distance.

 There was Iron Age settlement here.  I think I could sit here and gaze out to sea for a long time.

This is Ramsay Sound with Ramsay Island to the right.  I walked the land on the left when I did the St Justinian to Porth Clais walk.

My kind of sea.

The path back to Whitesands

and the (microscopic) horses now grazing on the flanks of Carn Llidi.

I walked back to St Davids the long way.  There are still flowers in the hedgerows,

including snapdragons for Steve.

Meditation 1

Today I walked the cliff tops for the first time:  St Justinians to Porth Clais.

St Justinians lifeboat station

Some chaps off to work

on the blue fishing boat.

 

photo for Georgia

'The Bitches' between Ramsay Island and the  coast path.

You are never really alone

and you never know who you may meet.

Sugar almonds for Bronny

another present for Georgia

Porth Clais - the end in sight

and a picnic at my cottage.

Perfect.