Showing posts with label 2cv. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2cv. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

27/05/2020 Out walking around and about

I walked 8.2 kms on Sunday and yesterday 8.4. So many photos to filter through but here are just a few.  All of the insects I saw while out I am still trying to sort out their IDs.  Watch this page.

Wild Pyramid Orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis). 

A man at work...

Hay Bales...

Moving hay bales by tractor and trailer.

Cattle resting.

A late lamb, most of them were born much earlier.

Donkey and horse friends.

Over the rooftops of Vitrac.

The church,

A stone wall around the balcony at the top of one of the houses.

The Junior school.

A Private home.

Narrow streets.

Looking down the river from the bridge

The lavoir that was!  It is now so overgrown if the ladies had to do their washing there as in the old days, they would have to do a lot of clearing first!

Walking through the forest.

So damp under the trees that the moss grows everywhere,

Two different ferns, dryopteris and  possibly Harts-tongue.

View across the fields.

Foxglove...

As above.

Poppies...

As above.

Another derelict building - as we said before if only these walls could talk.

A French favourite - a Citroën 2CV.

Almost home I saw these 3 cyclists that look like they are on a camping holiday - I feel sure are they are supposed to be at home at the present time!!!!!


Our local list of wild flowers

See also my



Monday, April 22, 2019

Belated Happy Easter........ Out for a drive and around the garden.

Maximum temperature today 22C, minimum 11C.  Dry.  15 km/h South-easterly winds with gusts up to 49 km/h.

Spent today day working in the garden, half of the potatoes planted, grass cut and edges trimmed.

Looking across the fields,

Down the road,

Citroën 2CV at Massignac.

Château de Montbrun. 
(In B and W as I had a lot of reflection from the windscreen and this was better than colour!)

Winding roads...

as above.

Presumably the ancient stone entrance into Saint Auvent.

Choisya ternata and bee.

Black tulips.

Iris.

Lilac in the neighbours garden next to our hedge.

Bluebell with what I think is Red-tailed bumble bee (Bombus lapidarius).

Orchid, the first flower from one of my own cuttings so I am pretty happy about it.

Weed in the lawn but pretty - Cranesbill.

Peony look carefully - 2 bugs.

Quince blossom. I hope we do better with fruit this year! Last year was not good!



Wednesday, April 11, 2018

11/04/2018 Still trying to catch up!!

Maximum temperature today 16C, minimum 9C.   8 mm of rain measured over the last two days; 17 km/h North Easterly winds with up to 37 km/h gusts.
Total rainfall so far this year now 430 mm.

Tulips taken two days ago...

Cherry blossom but no bees...

Wild violets...

White (blue) bells,

Vinca blue..

and purple...

Lawn daisy with a mini-hopper...

Flowers on the laurel.

Yesterday we had an appointment in Angouleme, this was just leaving home...

Poor guys were working on the road in the rain!

Later in the day, we saw this 2CV in the local car park...

As above, a typical French icon.



N.B. My new bird blog is HERE 
Part 4 of the birds I saw last year in Africa.