After rain and wind had curtailed our walking, I thought it would be good to have a bracing walk on Seaton Beach; it was an overcast, but dry weekday so it wouldn't be too busy.
The Autumn colours in the Beech hedges and Horse Chestnut trees were amazing, so I just had to stop the car and take photographs - hurried ones, because that lane is narrow and twisting and I didn't want a motorist in a hurry to come racing up from behind. Please excuse the reflections - the photos were taken through the windscreen.
A different take on yellow lines on the road.
Thanks to the high winds, the sea was looking pretty rough and wild, so I decided to ditch the beach walk and stroll through the Seaton Countryside Park instead.
But I had a shock when I tried to turn left off the main road, which was partly flooded, into the car park entrance. Ooops!¬
There was no way in - the River Seaton had burst its banks and flooded the car park and most of the green field at the beginning of the Park.
Hardly any flowers to be seen at this time of year and much of the Park had been strimmed of the excess vegetation but I found this little crop of fungus near one of the seats at the edge of the forest.
You may have noticed a distinct lack of photos of Benji so far; he hates water, wet grass, rain and besides he had been trimmed, shampoo'ed, blow-dried and brushed to within an inch of his life and preferred to tiptoe daintily along the gravel path. Until he spied the ducks in a huddle on the grass. Luckily I spied them an instant before he did and clipped his lead on pretty quickly!
So here are the obligatory Benji photos, taken in the comfort of his home, perched on his favourite pouffe in front of the window, so he can keep an eye out for possible marauders. When he isn't posing for the camera!!!
