One of the wonders that you will come across on the side of the north lake is the Peace Pagoda !!! There are resident Monks living nearby in the Temple and the whole area has a very tranquil feel to it . Just down from the Pagoda there is a replica Stone Circle .
Follow the footpath and you will go under the road and head towards the south lake . Here you can watch all sorts of things to do with water . There are facilities to water ski . You can hire out sailing boats , take in a spot of fishing or simply relax over a coffee or a beer from the restaurant . There are many types of birds living on the lake . From Swans, Geese , Ducks .In fact , pretty much every type of water bird you would love to watch . Also , there are several bird hides , where you can sit in quite , hidden away and look through your binoculars at the wildlife around you .
Milton Keynes Parks Trust spends a lot of time and money making sure the green areas of our lovely city are always in tip top condition . You will see from the pictures i have attatched that they make sure that all the grass is kept tidy .They also plant plenty of spring bulbs . As you can see from the Daffodil photo .
Most of these attached images were taken with my Nikon D700 and my newly acquired Sigma 300 2.8 lens . I decided to go out armed with just the one camera and one lens . Although , i did swap over to my Sigma 10-20 for a couple of the Daffodil images .
I will also attach a few of Mabel from her walk yesterday . Again i went out armed with just one camera and one lens .This time it was the lighter Nikon D90 and the Sigma 10-20 . This means that some of the images have the perspective thrown out , due to the extreme wide angle of this wonderful lens .
So thats it for today . I am off for a coffee .Then do some work on my website ( www.eternityimages.co.uk ) And this afternoon , i need to clean out the Chickens !! Yes we have 5 Chooks . More about them another time .
2 comments:
Welcome to blogland Mark. :-)
Beautiful dog, and those daffs make for an interesting shot. I'll have to get over Willen myself soon; not been for ages.
But......what's that dam kid doing skateboarding on the Peace Pagoda? Bloody hooligan!! Has he no respect? Grrrr.
(Oh, and get that word verification turned off. A real pain. lol)
The Daff's were amazing Keith !!! . And the dog looks sweet , but can be a right monkey ;) I took the one of the lad on the skateboard in the hope that they would think better of themselves and leave .But they just carried on :=(
Cheers Mark.
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