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Our walks have been beautiful lately, in warm, bright sunshine that makes the leaf canopies at the side of the river glow greenly. Today we saw a huuuge grey heron, sitting on the old tree trunk that's lodged in the rapids. He was very scruffy -- really long and straggly beardy-bits were all over the place. I wished I had my camera as he was sitting very picturesquely in front of a lovely calm bit of the river with the red-brick bridge behind. But I didn't, so here's a drawing instead. I was encouraged by this woman, Sarah, who I recently met -- she thinks we should all draw some little thing in our life each day.