06/07/2017 A walk and a drive but the drive I will add tomorrow. Too many photos!!

Maximum temperature 31C, minimum 16C. 12 km/h NW winds with 17 km/h gusts. A few drops of rain this morning that did not show in the rain gauge!

Crops as far as the eye can see.

Fern unfurling.

Buttercup.

Someone watching over me !

A shady lane.

White Admiral - (Limenitis camilla)...

Opening its wings, personally I think it is prettier with closed wings...

as above.

Speckled Wood - (Pararge aegeria)

Meadow Brown - (Maniola jurtina)

Oxythyrea funesta beetle.

Unknown wildflower.

Sorry Linda and David, it appears that the Canadian carpenters are not arriving this year, but the set up is a memorial it seems, see below pinned to one of the logs.

You might be interested in one of my old links HERE, a little more about the carvers.

27/04/2017 If you do not like cars and particularly Porsche, you may find this post boring!!

Maximum temperature 12C, minimum -2C.  12 kmh N wind, 15 km/h gusts.  Overcast with some sun, rain around but we mostly missed it, chilly wind.  Ice on the birdbath this morning!  1mm rain measured. 

Driving through the Charente forests...

Looking across fields of winter wheat...

 into the department of Vienne and the town of Pressac...

down twisty lanes...

and we arrived at the Circuit Val de Vienne.

The cars were on the Optic 2000 rally from Paris to Biarritz, this was one of the places where they stopped to take a drive around the track.

Porsche 911 2 litre 1965

Porsche 911 2 litre 1965

Porsche 904 GTS 1963

Porsche 356 Pre A 1954

Jaguar XK 120 1952

Jaguar Type E 3.8 litre 1962.

Ferrari 246 Dino.

DB HBR5 1957

If like me you have never heard of this car follow this link Deutsch and Bonnet's (DB)

Driving home we stopped to take a look at Viaduct de la Sonnette at Grand Madieu which was built 1902 - 1905.