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Mom and I went to Mount Stewart today, where they were having a vintage car show. David wasn't feeling well, so he didn't join us. So I took photos of three Morris Minors, which his parents had when he was a kid.

We toured the house, which is beyond description. It is chock full of paintings of the Stewart family and of their horses. The most famous portrait is not of any of the marquis of Londonderry (there were seven of them), but of Hambletonian, a racehorse painted by Stubbs when the artist was 75. It is a life-size portrait and is appropriately displayed in the central staircase of the massive house.

You know that horse was full of fire and must have been a sight to behold winning at Newmarket in 1799.
Yesterday's photos of Strangford Lough were from the mainland. Today we were on the Ards Peninsula, on the other side of the lough looking back.

You can barely make out the Mourne Mountains in the background.

Mom probably felt like she was climbing in the Mournes today because she had quite a few steps to climb in Mount Stewart and, of course, at our house. We went home and did our Sunday traditional TV viewing: Countryfile and Antiques Roadshow, then an early night.
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