Encounter with a Dragon

I'd borrowed Marianne's 'Gnome on Dragon' in the hopes of taking some photos of it with my gang at the Ruins Garden. So yesterday, even though I wasn't feeling especially well, we packed everyone up and headed off to to Guildwood. 

The Ruins garden is full of beautiful flower gardens, all of which I wanted to avoid in my photos, so I was on the lookout for something a bit 'woodsy'. Well, I found the perfect spot with the amphitheatre pillars in the background, set up my dolls, and got down to take some photos.

Suddenly I started to feel burning stings all over!  Seemed I'd laid down on a red ant colony! Usually I roughly pose my dolls where I want them, go lay down some distance away, and direct Jan to do the final positioning. But this time I wasn't going to wait. Who cares if Milo was weirdly posed, or Ringo's clothes were all bunched up, or Nami's headband had fallen down over her eyes, I wasn't prepared to stay there and get even more stings, so there's just this one photo...

With arms burning from the ant bites, we moved to a different spot, 
and took a couple of group shots with the pillars. First the girls....

....then the boys.....

I had wanted to photograph a little story about meeting the gnome on the dragon, 
but ended up just taking a few more single shots.