18/06/2020 A few flowers over the last few days mostly from home.

Maximum temperature here today 17⁰C, minimum 11⁰C. Rain measured this morning 11 mm. 15km/h South-Westerly winds with gusts up to 42 km/h.

Orchid in the house.

Poinsettia in the house, still holding on since Christmas and it has new shoots.

Rose from our garden...

and a few days later.  Wish I could add the perfume.

Potato flower - our garden and an unknown bug.

The start of grapes - our garden.

Hydrangea - our garden.

Violas - our garden.

A neighbour's clematis.

A neighbour's honeysuckle.

A dahlia from down the road.

My local list of wildflowers. (69 Species 18/06/2020)

See also my

 Bird blog

05/07/2017 Join me on another walk in the country.

Maximum temperature 32C, minimum 16C. 12 km/h NE winds with 20 km/h gusts. Dry.

Saw 4 cyclists just as I was leaving home, four bonjours :-)  Luckily it is a quiet road as they have pretty much taken over!!

Clover.

Common blue male (Polyommatus icarus).

Daisy family plus two flies and a hoverfly.

Hay bales.

Honey suckle.

Marbled white - (Melanargia galathea).

Meadow brown - (Maniola jurtina).

Wonder if a fairy lives here LOL.

One of the roads I walked down.

Spider web with dew drops.

Thistle family and a bug.

Unknown...

also unknown with a bee...

Almost black cherries, they looked fabulous.  Ours have been over for at least 4 to 5 weeks!!

14/06/2017 A visit to Chasseneuil to get my hair cut.

Maximum temperature 29C, minimum 16C. 7 kmh NE wind.  3mm measured from last night.

Last time I showed you this new factory was 29 April Things seem to be moving slowly to me, but it is a huge area. Apologies for the light changes, I did not have my wide angle lens with me.

Lots of poppies by the sides of the roads.

I was early so I took a walk around the car park...

The archway is covered in various creepers...

Climbing rose,

Honeysuckle...

Wisteria and others.

On the other corner is one of the wooden carvings surrounded by many shrubs...

I recognised St John's-wort...

But this one I did not know.

The railway station on the other-side is not used as such anymore and it has been restored into flats.

  

Next to it is the local hotel...

and then this gateway.

Just beyond, there are some new shops, sadly the old second hand shop that was there closed down.

On the other-side of the car park is my hairdresser.

Wheat fields driving back home.

19/05/2015 In the garden and shopping.

Maximum temperature 15C, minimum 7C.  33km/h W wind.

Clouds about a light shower so far.  18h49 the rain has started!