19/02/2020 - Part 2 of my walk.

Maximum temperature in the Charente today 12C, minimum 5C. Rain most of the day not measured as yet.  16km/h north-westerly wind with gusts up to 35 km/h.

Grapes partly pruned, must do ours but we only have one plant!

Our hamlet, looking back over my shoulder.

A surprise visit from a Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus)...

As above...

As above.

Daisies and a fly.

Mimosa.

Mistletoe.

A stream that is quite often dry, it was running fast here.

Lots of mud around!

Reflections in a puddle, I just happened to like this photo!!

I wonder how much water is in this well.

Sad, but I think this large tree had died so it was probably dangerous.

I hope it was wind blowing this vapour trail and the pilot had not been drinking 😊

Wind turbines in the distance- my pet hate, but thankfully there are not a lot around us.

I think this is winter wheat just coming through.

Another great surprise, a Peacock butterfly (Aglais io).

See also my

 Bird blog

04/03/2019 A few odd photos that I missed at the end of last month.

Maximum temperature today 16C, minimum 6C.  4mm rain measured this morning; as I type this we are having a mixture of more rain plus some hail.  31km/h North-westerly winds with gusts up to 77 km/h.   It is very windy outside!

The tiny church down the road from us at Fleurignac has just had a new/restored bell put in after months of being without it.  Apparently, it had a crack.

Around the corner from the church is this old Lavoir.

Our local village of Vitrac, the local well...

as above, the Mairie and the local war memorial...

The Mairie from another angle.

Our last game of French scrabble at Vitrac where this word gave me a winning streak.  Yes, it is in the French scrabble dictionary!!

Out for a drive near Xambes - grape vines...

The town of Xambes - too many wind turbines...

You can see here just how close they are to the town!!  Thank goodness we did not buy a house near here!

A bee in the garden...

as above...

and a bumble bee.

Even a few lizards came out of hibernation for several days before the weather turned cooler again.

Last week we took a trip to the recycling centre here in the Charente.  It was extremely interesting, but because there was lots of info to go with it, which I do not put on the diary, I have put the post on my other blog HERE.

I have updated my bird blog HERE.

01/02/2019 Trying to catch up...

24/01/2019 Ice on the pond in Devizes with reflections...

25/01/2019 Sunset Devizes...

28/01/2019 The Wadworth Drays delivering beer to the pubs on our last morning in Devizes.

29/01/2019 Going home - Leaving at sparrow to get to the Chunnel in Folkestone...

29/01/2019 heading down the M20 in the UK, I just liked the clouds that looked like mountains.

29/01/2019 Back in France; many of the bridges have different statues on them...

29/01/2019 Sadly driving along the coast there are also quite a few wind turbines as it is very windy there - my pet hate!...

29/01/2019 A view from under a bridge...

29/01/2019 French road signs.

29/01/2019 French countryside...

29/01/2019 and then the rain came down.

30/01/2019 It started snowing as soon as we reached our hotel at Bourgtheroulde-Infreville and this is what we set out in the following morning...

30/01/2019 Not nice...

30/01/2019 White countryside...

30/01/2019 Trying to pass trucks!!!!...

30/01/2019 The snow ploughs were out...

It continued to past LeMans and then it just rained the remainder of the way home!!

 01/02/2019 I could not get to the camera fast enough to get a good shot, the neighbour herding his first lambs into a drier place.