dark clouds and sunshine

A sunny afternoon on the cycle thro' fields and villages in Brabant and we spotted this troup of horses who seem to take guard over some of their youngsters taking a noon nap on the grass. I enjoyed seeing the horses grouped together - showing us they are social animals:)

On the horizon we'd noticed some dark smoke and thinking of the direction it came from gathered it might be a litterbelt that's on fire, could be bushes in the small woodlands tho' - but we didn't notice panicking on the roads and thus imagined it was a controlled fire