Painting progress and silly ducks

Painting the houses at dusk 

Cows in the meadow, very painterly white but attracting flies like nobodies.

We bought three but now wish we'd bought five.  Today the ducks were trying to get into their bowls of water with some enthusiasm. This encouraged us to take them to the pond. To our amusement after half an hour the ducks climbed out of the pond and headed back to their pen right through the orchard through a gate and up the yard.