Nature
Another picture from our visit to the lovely Bodnant Garden in North Wales… Apart from the magnolias, daffodils were also in full bloom at the Gardens. I was not sure why the Garden map described this area as the “Ha-Ha” until I chanced upon this description in Wikipedia.
We had an unusually mild and warm start to Spring in late March with summer-like temperatures. The weather has returned to typical dull and gloomy though, with almost freezing temperatures (and snow in parts of the UK) last week. We visited beautiful Bodnant Garden in North Wales during the warm spell to view the magnolias and daffodils in magnificent bloom.
Icelandic horses are a special breed of small horses well known for their spirited temperaments. According to Wikipedia, they have few diseases in their native country and were developed from ponies taken to Iceland by Scandinavian settlers in the 9th and 10th centuries. The ones that we saw (when our driver stopped by the roadside for us to take a look at them) were certainly tame, even in the half-blizzard that was brewing!