Spring Chicken

The 2 Happy Hens enjoy roaming in the garden during the sunny spring season.

Spring is a wonderful time for fast growing flowers, grass and weeds!

The "red headed girls" camoflague with the red geranium flowers.

Chilli pauses for a moment in the sunshine.

The single petal white climbing rose bush ('Macartney's Rose') flowers

every September and is about three metres high and three metres wide.

Chilli dodges the thorny drapping rose branches and pecks the ground.

Can you see Nestle's beak in the left hand corner of the photo? 

 Nestle ducks under the climbing rose bush.

Nestle pecks a sunny spot on the ground whilst Chilli looks on.

The bees love the pollen in the clusters of

tiny white flowers on this particular shrub.

Chilli Goes to Church

 Lydia took Chilli to church on Sunday 29th September 2013

for the annual "Blessing of the Animals"

in the season of the Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi.

Chilli loves her pet carrier and enjoyed travelling in the car to church.

Nestle is not so experienced at travelling and 

stayed home whilst Chilli was at church.

All things bright and beautiful,

all creatures great and small,

all things wise and wonderful -

the Lord God made them all.

Blessed are you, O Lord, who for the sake of our comfort

give us domestic animals as companions.

Let us bless the Lord: Blessed be God forever.

Blessed are you, O Lord, who show us a sign of your providence,

as your Son told us, by caring for the birds of the air.

Let us bless the Lord: Blessed be God forever.

 The Venerable Peter Stanley and Lydia at "Blessing of the Animals".