Flowers and Deer

It's a big day! Huge! The first journey way from the immediate vicinity of my home for over 100 days.

The National Trust has kindly opened the grounds of Dyrham Park to the north of Bath and here there is lots of room, with a little care, to maintain sensible social distance. The grounds include a formal garden, an orchard come meadow area and extensive pasture and mature trees which host a herd of fallow dear. The day, as the photos show was somewhat dull but the rains held off until it was almost time to leave. 

The grand house at the centre of Dyrham.

Poppies in the orchard.

Crab apples. 

The chapel and view of the great mansion from the back.

And now some of the deer of Dyrham.

Nice 'velvet' on his new antlers.

And this is what deer do in the rain.... they hunker down in the long grass!