Counting My Chickens . . . by The Duchess of Devonshire

Author:The Duchess of Devonshire
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2011-11-21T16:00:00+00:00

The view from here is beautiful. Looking out of my window over the garden and the river to the park and the woods is a pleasure I never cease to enjoy. There are no telegraph poles, no concrete edges to the road, no double yellow lines, nor anything else vexatious to the eye. The people who come to walk here, like Lowry figures, give scale to the landscape. They lean on the parapet of the bridge, gazing at the view from the opposite angle.

Morning and evening, the park is empty of people, and the sheep and deer become its undisturbed tenants. On stormy days, these ruminants are like weather vanes, telling you the direction of the wind as they choose to lie down in the lea of this hill or that. On the first hot day of the year, the ewes crowd together under a tree for shade like old women at a meeting, and you know that spring has truly come.

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