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…

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Left Behind
Category: Black & White Tagged: Abandoned, Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Left Behind, Rural
Posted on February 5, 2021
The licence plate of a classic Renault car.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Numbers
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Car, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Classic cars, Licence Plate, Numbers, Renault
Posted on January 29, 2021
The tractor needs to exercise a complicated turn in the corner of this field, providing an elaborate pattern of its tyre tracks in the mud.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Farm-related
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, tracks, Tractors
Posted on January 16, 2021
In the waters off Muscat, in Oman, fishing is still a low-tech business.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: On Water
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Fishing, Oman, On Water
Posted on January 9, 2021
It’s been pretty cold these last few days….

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Hot or Cold
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Cold, Frost, leaves
Posted on December 27, 2020
A few miles outside the town of Beverley, in Yorkshire, is this entrance to an old house standing in its own grounds.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Fences & Gates
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Fences, Gates
Posted on November 20, 2020
Take a pew? Somebody’s taken all of them from this church in Confolens and replaced them with chairs.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Seating
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Chairs, Church, Confolens, Seating
Posted on November 13, 2020
You can’t help seeing a smiley face on this old RAF training aircraft at the Yorkshire Air Museum.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Anything that flies
Category: Black & White Tagged: Aeroplanes, Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Yorkshire Air Museum
Posted on November 7, 2020
‘Musical’ is the theme for Week 45 of the Smartphone Challenge, so here is a detail from the electric keyboard that our grandsons use when they are staying with us:

As it happens, the theme for Cee’s Black & White Challenge this week is ‘Music’, so this post will apply for that too.
Who says men can’t multi-task?
52WeekSmartphoneChallenge; 45 Musical
Posted on October 30, 2020
This plucky little spider has spun the complex pattern of its web in the curl of a new shoot of wisteria.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Patterns in Nature
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Patterns, spider, Spiders' Webs, Wisteria