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Afternoon Moon
A chance encounter on a walk this afternoon. Filed under: french life Tagged: auvergne, france, haute-loire, moon, photography
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wordless wednesday: la vallée
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December Calendar 2015
This has been a strange warm and dry December in the Auvergne, with few frosts and many sunny days. However due to the sheltered nature of the garden in a forest clearing, it doesn’t get much...
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wordless wednesday: beech wood
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wordless wednesday: beech
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January Calendar 2016
The garden is looking very wintery as I took all the photos during the only snow we have had this month, mostly its been unseasonally warm and sunny! The only veg we now have left are leeks and tuscan...
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monochrome monday: domarget halt
“Le Cévenol” rail route links Clermont Ferrand with Nimes and has 106 tunnels and many viaducts. Originally built to transport wine and opened in 1870, it still runs regular services through the...
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Trees along the Montclard road
“…begin with the near and familiar. It is in learning to love and cherish our own little tree, or field or brook that we become fitted for wider and deeper affections” R. S. Thomas preface to The...
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wordless wednesday: snow sprigs
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wordless wednesday: mistletoe
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bees and crocus
It’s been a lovely sunny day here today and the local bees have been all over our crocus plants. There isn’t much around the garden for them at the moment, just primroses and the crocuses, so they are...
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weekly photo challenge: seasons
This February has been the mildest and warmest we have known since moving here. Usually it can be very cold with periods of -5C to -9C overnight and sometimes much colder. A few days ago it was 20C...
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February calendar
A mainly dry and warm February with just one fall of snow early on. Still some leeks left, though they need lifting now before they bolt. The kale is also still going strong and throwing out very...
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weekly photo challenge: half-light
sunlight shafts over the Haute-Allier This weeks photo challenge is “Half-Light” and in this landscape the sunlight was flickering in and out of the cloud cover. This reminded me of the track...
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march calendar 2016
It’s always good to get the first veg started off in the new growing season and now we have beetroot sown and potatoes chitting. This year we are growing three different varieties of beetroot...
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weekly photo challenge: landscape
I’ve been playing around with the Nik filters collection which Google has now made available free. This original colour shot was adjusted using the black and white Silver Efex Pro 2 filters and is...
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wordless wednesday: snow sprigs
Filed under: wordless wednesday Tagged: auvergne, b&w, black and white, france, photography, snow
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wordless wednesday: mistletoe
Filed under: french life, wordless wednesday Tagged: auvergne, france, haute-loire, mistletoe, photography, trees, wordless wednesday
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bees and crocus
It’s been a lovely sunny day here today and the local bees have been all over our crocus plants. There isn’t much around the garden for them at the moment, just primroses and the crocuses, so they are...
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weekly photo challenge: seasons
This February has been the mildest and warmest we have known since moving here. Usually it can be very cold with periods of -5C to -9C overnight and sometimes much colder. A few days ago it was 20C...
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