Showing posts with label Jim & Wendy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jim & Wendy. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

06/11/2018 Autumn colours and out to lunch - celebrating two birthdays.

Maximum temperature today 14C, minimum 8C.  Rain on and off all day and raining now. 5mm of rain measured this morning; 25km/h South-Easterly winds with up to 49 km/h gusts. 
The sunset a couple of nights back which I had not downloaded.

Driving to the restaurant today trying to get autumn colours avoiding reflection on the windscreen and raindrops!... 

As above.

Driving back home our neighbours walnut tree.

Arriving at St Sornin.  Remember I showed you the pictures of over 800 houses with roofs destroyed during a storm in July, still many are covered with plastic sheeting.....

Some are being worked on...

The restaurant has scaffolding but we were told they still have no date for when work might be done.

The place was packed so luckily we had booked for 4, the two men were celebrating. Jim on the left had his birthday yesterday and Nigel has his on Saturday.
Excellent value €14 each for a 4-course meal including wine and coffee.

The Euonymus back home is showing its autumn colours.

The Acer has silver seeds.

The Stinking Iris (Iridaceae foetidissima) has bright red seeds.

Surprisingly there are still buds on the climbing rose.

The lavender that I grew from seed is still flowering while the old plants were over weeks ago.

Good to see there are still some bees around and a few cosmos for them to collect pollen from....

As above

Last but not least a visitor to the window sill.
Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus).
I love the feather definition and the single raindrop on its tail.




I have at last updated my bird blog HERE

Monday, November 7, 2016

07/11/2016 Back home after a busy weekend.

Maximum temperature 11C, minimum 0C.  36 km/h NW wind.  Altogether we have had 30mm of rain over the weekend.  
Sorry  I did a post on Friday to say we would be away, I forgot to post it and stayed in draft!! It only went on line today!!  
Back home again though now with our first frost this morning! 
Last ticket in the raffle on Friday and look what Nigel won :-)

Saturday in the Dordogne celebrating a  friends 70th

Sunday driving home in the mist...

As above...

As above...

As above.

Monday back home and the Ginkgo biloba in autumn dress

Mushrooms everywhere but they do not look edible!

And last but not least a Great Tit.

Friday, April 15, 2016

15/04/2016 A trip to the Dordogne to see friends.

Maximum temperature 18C, minimum 8C.  20 km/h SW winds.  6mm rain measured this morning.
Travelling to the Dordogne through villages...

and forests.

After a fabulous lunch we went to the local dam for a walk, not many people there and it was raining lightly.


There are a number of legends around the dam...

concerning devils and stories of Richard the Lion Heart.

A reminder to keep an eye open for the devil!

I only had the little Samsung camera, but these are still sort of recognisable as Mallards.

Not sure about this - the devil maybe?

A Pied wagtail on the weir.

Looking across the dam....

Can you see the little red building at the end of the dam, the men were waiting for us there.

Wendy hauling us across the dam on the ferry.  It works so well and was remarkably easy.

Walking back I was fascinated by this fallen tree with green leaves shooting.

Thursday, October 29, 2015

29/10/2015 Long day but fun meeting up with friends.

Maximum temperature 20C, minimum 6C.  33 km/h S winds. 1  mm rain measured.
All ready and waiting for our guests.

Brian helped out by carving the leg of lamb for me.

Wendy kindly brought an Apple marzipan tart which was delicious.

One of my paintings done long ago of a fish eagle.
Note to self - I must start painting again!!!