Monday 19 August 2013

A Visit to Yorkshire Sculpture Park - with Gracie


This is Gracie - my little dark pup who is very much grown up now :-) She has come back to stay with us for a couple of weeks while her new peeps are abroad on holiday. Well I wasn't that pleased actually at first when I thought she had decided to come back. I mean I spent a good while raising those pups to be independent and I didn't think they would move back again! But if it's just for a holiday - I suppose it's OK. Aoife was pleased to see her though and Trilby is very happy her little sister's back. The two of them have been having zoomies and playing in the garden.



Anyway on Sunday me and Gracie went for a trip out to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park - and Crybbe decided to tag along too:


There were lots of huge and strange sculptures there:


Crybbe was checking the notice to try and work out what this was.


This shiny ball looked as though it had landed on someone's house - you can just see our reflections in it!


This was supposed to be a sculpture but it looked just like an old tree trunk in a pit to me!


It was a beautiful place for a walk though among the trees and we even found a money tree:


Peeps had hammered coins into a fallen tree trunk. 


Leigh saw a heron a long way off in the lake and managed a fuzzy photo.

And then we found this strange sculpture:


This is another view:


We thought it must have been some sort of rain dancer because as soon as we got there the sun disappeared and it poured with rain! Crybbe wasn't at all pleased as he hates getting wet and I was a bit fed up too!


But we tried to shelter under the tables of a little coffee stop for a bit:


Gracie & Crybbe

And then set off back to the car park with a few stops for photos:





It was a fun walk even with the rain and when we got home we were all in need of a snooze. Here is Gracie dreaming of her day out :-)


12 comments:

  1. What a super trip! Gracie is so cute, and so are the rest of the dogs. Haha, modern art these days is pretty weird!
    Pippa :)

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  2. I'm sure Gracie is going to have a fabulous holiday back home.
    Shame the rain spoiled your day out, but it was interesting anyway!

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  3. That sure is an interesting and unique Sculpture Park!
    Stewey

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  4. It's lovely to catch up with the pups. Glad she could stay with you. Pawsome walk. We thought that branch sculpture was just supporting the walls...BOL!

    XXXOOO Daisy, Bella & Roxy

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  5. Hi Magic!
    What a really fun day out, shame about the rain though, I hate the rain and my Mum has got me so many coats to try and make me walk in the rain!
    Awwww Gracie is so grown up now, it must have been wonderful to spend time with her!
    It looks like you all had fun and the sculptures and things were very interesting to see, some strange ones there!
    Hope you all had a nice sleep after all that fun!
    Love and Licks from your Furiend Frank xxxxxxxx

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  6. Isn't Mabel dark colored too?

    Gracie looks pretty. Just shows she's taken pretty well care of by her folks.

    I'm sure you miss Gracie too.

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  7. Mabel is very dark - yes. We are hoping she is coming to stay for a holiday in a couple of months for a week so we will post pics then :-) - Leigh

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  8. Wow ! How I wish we have as well a nice park in this part of the world . All they do is only building commercial spaces. It seems that both Gracie and the rest of the fur have fun. I bet Gracie is happy again to get reunited with the whole paws.

    Awwww.... hugs from all of us in myfurryplace all the way from Cambodia

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  9. Wow ! How I wish we have as well a nice park in this part of the world . All they do is only building commercial spaces. It seems that both Gracie and the rest of the fur have fun. I bet Gracie is happy again to get reunited with the whole paws.

    Awwww.... hugs from all of us in myfurryplace all the way from Cambodia

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  10. Wow ! How I wish we have as well a nice park in this part of the world . All they do is only building commercial spaces. It seems that both Gracie and the rest of the fur have fun. I bet Gracie is happy again to get reunited with the whole paws.

    Awwww.... hugs from all of us in myfurryplace all the way from Cambodia

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  11. Wow ! How I wish we have as well a nice park in this part of the world . All they do is only building commercial spaces. It seems that both Gracie and the rest of the fur have fun. I bet Gracie is happy again to get reunited with the whole paws.

    Awwww.... hugs from all of us in myfurryplace all the way from Cambodia

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  12. Wow ! How I wish we have as well a nice park in this part of the world . All they do is only building commercial spaces. It seems that both Gracie and the rest of the fur have fun. I bet Gracie is happy again to get reunited with the whole paws.

    Awwww.... hugs from all of us in myfurryplace all the way from Cambodia

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