The Duck Pond
Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 12:42PM 
When I was young we used to walk our dogs or ride our bikes down a lane to a farm about 3/4's of a mile away called St Mary's Farm. The reason why was this pond. It never used to look like this, it wasn't fenced off and didn't have any trees growing around it. It just had big white ducks living in it and a wall at one end that was kind of derelict, but safe enough to lean on and feed the ducks bread. I guess eventually it dried out, but now the owners of the farm have reestablished it, fenced it off and it has geese living there. You know it's like everything in life that you take for granted when you live right by it or when you are young, you miss it when you leave and love it when you go home to visit. You also don't realise how lucky you were growing up in a small village surrounded by fields and countryside and 15 minutes from the sea.
Reader Comments (1)
What a beautiful picture. Your description of St Marys really takes me back to when the brownies and guides would use it for campfire evenings. Oh the thought of those melting marshmallows over the campfire, yum yum.