Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy, too. Wouldn't you?
I can hear my mother singing that song!
Have I mentioned the sheep? Sheep are E.V.E.R.Y.W.H.E.R.E. in the UK. Everywhere!
Lucky us, in late March, many of those sheep have a lamb or two or three at their side. OMG, the cute. They're skittish little things and it is extremely difficult to photograph a green hillside full of sheep or capture the extreme adorableness of little lambs -- the picture in your mind is likely better than anything on paper (or screen) -- and the real thing is simply indescribable. From the first to the last, we never tired of seeing them.
The additional pay off for trekking to Bryn Celli Ddu in Anglesey, Wales, were the lambs that had snuck under the fence and were running and jumping and playing on and around the mound!
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Home. Catching up.
Welcome home, friend! I'll wait patiently to hear more about your trip of a lifetime. You captured the cuteness of the lambies perfectly in your pictures. My heart took a leap!
Posted by: margene | April 05, 2011 at 07:30 AM
They are adorable and I'd say you did a great job capturing them. My mom used to sing that song to me, too.
Posted by: Carole | April 05, 2011 at 09:17 AM
Did you used to sing this: maresee dotes and dosee dotes and little lambs eat ivy? It toook me a while to figure THAT one out...
Posted by: knitnzu/lisa | April 05, 2011 at 10:26 AM
My Great Gran, my Gran and my Mom! My boys thought I was nuts.
Posted by: Guinifer | April 05, 2011 at 11:37 AM
We stayed in a B&B somewhere in Scotland or Yorkshire. When I opened the windows we could hear the sheep baaaa-ing. It was all bucolic and restful and stuff.
Posted by: kmkat | April 05, 2011 at 09:45 PM
Anytime we go anywhere and I see sheep...I go nuts.
Posted by: MK | April 06, 2011 at 07:51 AM
Precious! Adorable! And welcome home, m'dear!
Posted by: Kym | April 06, 2011 at 03:53 PM
Those cute little lambs makes my day! :)
Posted by: C.S.A. | April 13, 2011 at 01:50 PM