Three ‘A’s in Alpaca
Posted on February 26, 2021
Cee wants something with at least two ‘A’s for her CMMC this week.
This just-sheared alpaca qualifies, with room to spare.
Renewal
Posted on February 24, 2021
The good news is that the daffodils are back.
The bad news is that so are the weeds.
Between The Branches
Posted on February 24, 2021
The moss on this tree looks like an aerial view of a rain forest until the bark of the tree on which it’s growing puts it into the correct context.
Steps
Posted on February 19, 2021
Purple (take my word for it) wisteria borders this set of steps in the very floral village of Chedigny.
Low Tech
Posted on February 19, 2021
Even with all the latest technology and machinery available to them, farmers’ work is hard. It’s difficult to imagine how tough it must have been when everything had to be done by hand with simple toools like these.
Stacked
Posted on February 16, 2021
Out here, wood-fired heating is still the norm, so there’s a lot of bois de chauffage to be seen in the nearby fields. This particular stack of logs, just down the road from us, would be enough to keep a home fire burning for years.
Left Behind
Posted on February 14, 2021
They do things differently here in La France profonde.
If you were trying to sell your house, the chances are that you’d have it spotless, impeccably tidy and quite possibly pervaded with the smell of freshly-baked bread and perked coffee.
Here it’s quite common for everything to be just left behind, like a particularly scruffy Mary Celeste.
We didn’t buy this one…
Blue and Green Boats
Posted on February 11, 2021
Reedy
Posted on February 10, 2021
These exceptionally – almost surreally – long reeds can be found on the bed of the River Indre as it flows through the town of Loches in central France.
Licenced
Posted on February 5, 2021
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