13/05/2017 A few more photos from the garden. Friends coming to dinner this evening.

Maximum temperature 18C, minimum 9C.  16 km/h SW wind.   2 mm rain measured this morning.

Hello I am waving to you LOL.

Peony,

Rose buds all from the same plant.

Rocket flower (In the USA known as Arugula).

I wonder if they recognise me...

Note the different markings on these two though they are so far as I know both Common Wall lizards. (Podarcis muralis)

The pretty pest known as the rosemary beetle here in the sage.

Wasp I think in the Rosemary.

Potatoes coming up...

and parsnips.

04/05/2017 Busy day in the garden a few rushed shots.

Maximum temperature 19C, minimum 4C.  18 kmh NE wind.   Dry.

Bee on the Red Robin.

The bluebells are almost over.

Bumble bee on the sage.

Californian poppies.

Cherries.

Peonies.

Robber fly.

The flowers of the rocket plant. (arugula)

Rose bud on soft focus.

Lawn cut.

As above

As above,

13/04/2017 Around the garden and a snake comes to visit.

Maximum temperature 19C, minimum 4C. 10 kmh NE wind.  Dry

Posing on our veranda, Aesculapian Snake (Zamenis, (Elaphe), longissima)...

as above.

Apple blossom...

as above with a Crane fly.

Bee in the Rosemary...

as above.

 A lizard waving to me :-)

Sage in bud with a wasp.

The flowers of the Rocket plant (arugula)

Quince blossom.

Broad beans,

Just for the record!  Trying to prevent the weeds coming through from next door, and a new small veggie garden going in front of the young laurel hedge.

23/03/2016 A few photos from the garden today and the remainder from Monday's walk.

Maximum temperature 15C, minimum 0C. 38 km/h cold wind. Dry.

Celandine with a bee-fly of Bombylius species.

Common Lizard, sure this is the same lizard as it is in the same place again.

Camellia.

The hyacinth is still looking good.

Flower of salad rocket plant also known as arugula.  Eruca sativa.

Buds of white bells, the blue bells are always later.

Saint-Vincent. This place is now a business, but 60 odd years ago it was an orphanage....

as above.  One of my followers lived here as a child which is how I know

A forlorn empty house at Saint-Vincent....

and a nearby pond.

Fields of lupins in the front and wheat beyond.

Cowslips at the roadside. 

04/03/2016 Very rushed as friends coming to dinner tonight.

Maximum temperature 12C, minimum 2C.  73 km/h SW winds. 14 mm of rain measured this morning but we have had lots since.

Snowdrop.

Broad beans flower.

Best leeks we have ever grown this year.

Flower of rocket also known as arugula.

Rosemary.

This little chap is made from seeds and sits in our house :-)

I cheated, these photos were taken yesterday as I knew today would be rushed!