Okay so its not really memphis..and being honest with you i wouldnt know what that is like because i have never been and i just really love the song…..
but…
this hill near where we live around this time of year backs onto loads and loads of crop fields and we like to go walking over there and it always reminds me of that line in the song ‘walking with my feet ten feet of the Beale’ which until recently i thought was ‘off a field’ ( you can see my connection here) but apparently it is  a road and not a field… HAH!  So my comparison falls down in so many ways but in my imagination it works!
So okaaaayyyyy…
The hill is one of the high points around here and so you can get a decent view of the landscape, which it is, to be fair, slightly blotted by a motorway and lots of plyons but it is a peaceful place and i love the sound of the wind moving through the crops. It isnt that far away so its not really a day trip but we took a lunch and sat for a while. Well some of us did! 😉
Generally the kids eat and run when we are picnicking. I have never had a child that hasn’t come complete with ants in their pants and they seem to be unable to sit still for very long. Fortunately there was a large rock to play on and some little sisters to give piggy back races to. Im amazed there were no injuries and it actually had the added benefit of my toddler asking someone else for a carry!
The rock here on this hill also gave me an idea for an image i want to get with a friend’s older daughter who is currently doing ‘en pointe’ ballet. I have been searching for a possible location and i think i may have found it. I was getting one of my girls to pretend to be a ballerina to see if it would work and she went for a classic ‘first’ position! 🙂
We walked back through the wheat fields. Once they stopped moaning about having to walk..(is it only my kids that do that?) They really got into looking and noticing the different flowers and how the wheat is planted in lines and how much ‘crop’ a farmer might get out of these many fields..oh and how much actual wheat it takes to make one loaf of bread. Something to google i think as OH and i had no idea whatsoever!
A nice little afternoon. All in all
🙂
Oh what beautiful shots Sarah and those pictures in the wheat field could quite easily pass for being in some of the American states – I don’t know about Memphis (my cousin lives there, but I’ve no idea what it looks like!) Days out in the fields are often more fun than going away x
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Wow what beautiful photographs. Looks like a couple of great places to go for a walk and that rock is such a great prop. I bet it will be the perfect place for the ballerina photoshoot. x
They’re so sweet together. They’re like that all the time, right? I can’t wait to see this ballet pose on the rock. Amazing!
Fab photos as always Sarah. Mine eat and run on a picnic just the same. I love the look on the face of one of your daughtes with the apple, that’s a real “have I really still got all that to go?” face! Wheat fields look great, proof of a dry summer. Did they try rubbing the corn betwen tehir hands and eating it? I remember doing that as a child.
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Beautiful photos, as always 🙂 I love the shots in the wheat field, and does your second littlest have leopard ears…?! The piggy back photos are lovely, such fun!
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Mine moan at the beginning sometimes. I think it’s because they don’t get the point. Take them to an attraction and it’s obvious why, but unless they had a great time last time, a run-of-the-mill walk is….boring. Five minutes into the walk and they are enjoying it.
Your corn field walk, and photos, looks fabulous. I’m sure they’ll be asking for a return visit.
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Some great pictures on the rock. I used to love running in fields when I was little, not sure 6yo has ever had the chance.
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Such gorgeous photos! My kids never sit still either. Great to get them giving each other piggy backs 🙂
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Gorgeous photos, and I have those ‘ants in your pants’ type children, too!
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Stunning pictures – I love the piggyback racers!
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Such beautiful pics. I love the light in them and it looks like a gorgeous place to be. Memphis or no Memphis! 😀
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Those photos look so wonderful. They really capture the fun that your girls had! Nothing better than a day out and about, I think.
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Looks a fantastic place for a picnic. I have an ants in the pants little boy 🙂
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I love walking my dog through the crops..i think id loose rio though..you right the rocks a perfect place for photos..stunning location.
I have to say I’m having trouble reading your post, and have to keep going back over, because I am mesmerised by your fantastic photos! I especially like the one of the girls sitting on the rock.
Actually, my boys complained the whole walk home coming back from our day at the Brook – but it turns out their wet wellies had completely cut into their legs – bad mummy I just assumed they were tired.
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i used to moan about walking all the time!!!
your comparison of the song may be a little uhmmmm strecthed but any inspiration to take such stunning photos is allowed 🙂 even if the girls were fidgety x x
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Beautiful pictures as always. Looks like a lovely day out. The ballet pose sounds brilliant, can’t wait to see x.
beautiful. Your children are so cute! I once did a photo shoot of a friend’s children in a field of tall grass like the one you’ve pictured and one of the shots was just the little girls feet sticking up. She was laying on her back with her feet up and the grass covered all but her little sandled feet.
Gorgeous photos. Love the ones of the wheat fields.