Showing posts with label plough. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plough. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

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.


Saturday, August 20, 2016

20/08/2016 Ploughing Competition. How things have changed over the years!!

Maximum temperature 24C, minimum 13C.  29 km/h SW  wind. 3mm rain measured overnight.

The old way and still in use in some places....

Working in Tandem.

Our Mayor at work on his old tractor...

Lots of activity...

A bit more modern...

and here as well...

Work going on all over.

The very modern.

Relaxing after work.

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

27/04/2016 Out for a walk around the local farming area.

Maximum temperature 13C, minimum 0C.  29 km/h NE wind. Dry.
All photos taken with the little Samsung L201
This must be a very special tree to be allowed to stay standing in a large ploughed field.

Wheat.

Sheep

Barn Swallows (I think)

The local château.

Dam with a couple of horses on the far side.

Walking through the woods.

Possibly a frog hopper - not totally convinced! 

Think this is a pearl-bordered fritillary, but if anyone can confirm I will be grateful.  Wish I had been carrying the Nikon!

A herd of calves.

Man at work.

Lupins, such a pretty crop.

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

06/04/2016 A few photos in the garden and some of yesterday's walk. Nigel cut edges, oiled the bench and dug the garden ready for potatoes.

Maximum temperature 15C, Minimum 2C, 30 km/h NW winds. Dry.
Tomatoes, peppers, courgette and cucumber seeds planted with double protection.

Broad bean flowers - Note the heart shape.

Plum blossom.

Japanese quince in flower for the second time this year! Plus fly!

Anemone...

As above.

Old tractor seen out yesterday...

Note this one even has grass growing in the front of it!

Wheat fields.

Ploughed land, the soil is much darker in this direction.

The track I walked along, note the cowslips on the left.

Teasel.

Grapes, small buds appearing now.