01/08/2016 A country drive and our first lunch enjoying the new tiling on the patio. We took a day off!!

Maximum temperature 27C, minimum 11C.  17 kph NE winds.   Dry.  

Sunflower, bees and an ant.....

They are everywhere at the moment...

A sea of yellow on both sides of the road.

Maize under irrigation.

More maize.

Make hay while the sun shines...

More bales with my pet hate of turbines in the background.

Hay stack.....

They do not look like they used to!

Derelict buildings on the outskirts of this town. 

Cheers, we made time to have lunch in comfort today!

16/05/2016 The tiler managed to continue his work at last. We both did quite a lot of gardening.

Maximum temperature  19C, minimum  4C.  17km/h  SW winds.   Dry other than some dew.

Trying the wide angle lens - the front of our house - only one other house at the end of this road. The tilers van in the gateway.

The back of the house hidden by all the leaves now on the trees.

The tiling went well today, if the forecast is right work will continue tomorrow.

Azalea.

Daisy.

Chives plus a fly!

Lots of little flies on this calendula.

Tricolour viola.

Chard and leeks from the garden.

Broad Beans.

13/05/2016 Still raining!!!!

Maximum temperature 17C, minimum  10C.   35 km/h SW winds. 3mm of rain measured but we are having continuous drizzle.

Collected my new wide angle lens today very exciting. As you can see the tiling is still under cover!

Drizzle on the windscreen!

 A trip to the dechetterie (dump).

I will never get used to post and telephone boxes not in red!

Bee on the borage - again.

Choisya ternata.

Must have been some pollination going on as I see we have baby granny smith apples :-)

Even the snail is in his house out of the rain!

Snapdragon.

Sweet William.

12/05/2016 Another wet day!

Maximum temperature  17C, minimum 7C.  28  km/h  NW winds. 15mm of rain measured.

Blackbird female. Turdus merula.

Calendula.

Bee on the sage.

As above

Love in a Mist.

Azalea.

Bee on the borage.

Peony in bud.

Cucumber seedlings.

Tiles still under cover!

09/05/2016 Raining! All photos taken from inside the house.

Maximum temperature 20C, minimum 13C.  58 kms/h NE winds.  Rain not measured yet.

A visitor,  the Magpie considered to be one of the most intelligent of birds, but they are very noisy!

Snapdragons....

as above.

Very wet Love in a Mist

The tiling is under cover!!

06/05/2016 Insects in the garden but not on the fruit trees!! Hope there are some pollinators around that I have missed.

Maximum temperature 22C, minimum 10C,  69 kms/h SW winds.

On the choisya ternata a hover-fly of the Syrphidae species.  It was very windy and the few bugs around were not out on the apple trees.

Looks like a bumble bee of some kind. Possibly Bombus pascuorum? Noushka says it is a fly though so I am sure she is right.

A fly!  Blue bottle ?

My guess is a type of fly, I am not even going to try and identify!

As above.

Looking for insects - Common Lizard.

  Pheasants Eye, Adonis Aestivalis

Iris.

Broad Beans.

The tiling is coming along but it looks like we are due rain which is going to call a halt to everything!