Persistence

Are you sure I didn't leave one in here?

Well Shandy is nothing if not persistent, her quest for a rabbit ended in success yesterday, but not with any help from me. We were all involved in the chase, the rabbit was tired and confused with Shandy hot on it's heels, we were all wielding sticks for use as clubs when the unthinkable happened. The poor bedraggled creature stopped dead at my feet and for a split second we looked into each others eyes, Now these creatures are enemy number one around here but when it came to actually bashing one on the head I just couldn't do it, it's one thing letting nature take its course and Shandy is very quick when she kills them but I would have caused it more pain and prolonged suffering so I let it go! That is one bunny that lives to fight another day due to my soft attitude, but all ended well when Shandy caught a different one in the very hole you see above. She was convinced that there was another one hiding in this tap hole until we took the lid off and showed her it was impossible, a good photo opportunity though!

Left is a picture of my favourite plant at the moment, it is a very early flowering honeysuckle that has the most glorious perfume. Lonicera caprifolium, the second part of the name means climbs like a goat, very apt as you can tell.

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
Calvin Coolidge