20/03/2018 Same route, same shops, and same view of a slightly different sunset !

Maximum temperature today 6C, minimum 0C.   Dry; 20 km/h North Easterly winds with up to 57 km/h gusts.  Bitterly cold winds, despite blue skies, we both felt colder today than the rest of winter!!

Last night, I missed the setting sun but liked the sky anyway!

All the below were taken as drive-by shots so some are a bit blurred!

Today just leaving home...

Lopsided trees presumably because of the overhead wires

 Winter wheat on both sides of the road...

The farm house in the distance...

another farm, ploughed fields, wonder what they will plant....

More winter wheat.

The small village of Taponnat-Fleurignac,....

as above

Possibly a cherry tree (some what blurred), though ours are not in flower yet, forsythia - the yellow shrub in front.

Same old supermarket slightly different view....

Heading back home past the hardware section of  Leclerc, service station in the front.

Railway crossing entering Taponnat....

The new boulangerie - shut; it was lunch time !

More forsythia seen on the the way home.

Tonight's sunset.  Guess by now you have noticed all my sunsets are pretty much taken from the same spot outside in the road!!

I have a new blog entirely committed to our feathered friends.

https://myafricanbirds.blogspot.com 

06/11/2017 A trip to the physio and shopping.

Maximum temperature 11C, minimum 3C.  10km/h NE winds, 20km/h gusts. Dry.

First stop was the dechetterie (dump), garden rubbish here...

and the electrical good are being collected opposite.

One of the very old Canadian carvings.  I seldom get to see this chap as the shrubs are usually as high as he is!

The post office in Chasseneuil looks like it is getting a face lift, or maybe a roof lift!

En route to the physio driving through Massignac...

as above.

Cattle by the side of the road.

A serious road obstruction, luckily one of the wider roads for us...

Cleaning out the ditches, they are pretty good about this each year.

Some signs of autumn but not a lot yet...

As above.

We stopped off to shop at Leclerc supermarket on the way home, Star Wars seems to be in evidence ....

As above.

Traffic jam in Tapponat :-)

The sun was a bit high when I took this, and only with the little hand held Samsung, but I thought the sunset was an interesting effect  if nothing else.

It has been a long day and I did not get a good night sleep last night.  Will catch up with all your comments tomorrow.  I am heading to bed!!

Bonne nuit.

05/05/2016 Ascension day holiday today celebrated the French way. Tiling starts on the verandah.

Maximum temperature 24C, minimum 4C,  55 km/h SW winds. Dry.

Californian Poppies growing in the road outside our neighbour.

Sanglier on the spit. (Wild pig)

Taponnat Salle des Fêtes. A new building that was only completed about 18 months ago. Thankfully it is away from the old town.

The Samsung did not do very well today and the only photo worth using was the starter!!!  Melon, tomato and pâté de sanglier. 

The French horn players. We had a great meal, but mostly it was a bit too disco like for us and very noisy.  If only they had turned the speakers down a bit!!

The start of tiling our verandah.  We gave up with the first tiler who let us down over a couple of years, we now have a new guy......

As above.

Tonight's sunset.

11/04/2016 A walk in the rain, but wow it was worth it :-)

Maximum temperature 16C, minimum 8C.  31 km/h SW winds.  8mm rain measured this morning.

Tapponat Château. 

Rapeseed in the distance beyond the wheat and the main road.

Sharing 'my' road with a tractor and a car.

 Watching the storms in front of me....

while another one is catching me up from behind!

It was raining by the time I had reached here...

and the dam was in darkness.

Suddenly the sun shone through the rain...

and what a delight to see...

These three photos were taken within seconds of each other so why is the sky so different?

Nearly home and mole hills in our neighbours field.

This evening's setting sun.