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Circulation Perturbée
Posted on March 6, 2020
Down here in la France profonde, the more common causes of circulation perturbée (traffic problems) – such as roadworks or a jack-knifed lorry – are just as likely to be supplemented by finding yourself on a country road behind a local farmer in the process of moving his flock of sheep from one field to another.
The ubiquitous white van is the modern-day sheepdog.
Portents
Posted on February 28, 2020
Well, if it’s not actually raining, it soon will be….
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Clouds
Muddy tracks
Posted on February 21, 2020
There are many ‘roads’ like this one around here – access tracks for agricultural equipment. You certainly wouldn’t want to try and get your shiny new roadster along here, or even your flash SUV, probably.
It has been a very wet winter here and the ground is very muddy, which accounts for the almost three-dimensional set of tractor tracks in this image.
Wheels within wheels
Posted on February 14, 2020
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week, another image of our neighbour Terry’s lovingly cared-for motorcycle:
Mystery building
Posted on February 7, 2020
I’ve been intrigued by this building ever since I first saw it over ten years ago. It is just outside the boundary of a shopping centre on the outskirts of Limoges.
I have no idea what it is, but the combination of shapes – including a spiral staircase – certainly fits the bill for Cee’s Black & White theme this week of ‘Geometry’.
Motoring Signs
Posted on January 31, 2020
These signs are on a door at the ‘Route 66’ biker hotel in nearby Bussière-Poitevine
The Brame
Posted on January 10, 2020
The River Brame flows quickly over its rocky bed up in the woods near the village of Thiat.
Embers
Posted on January 3, 2020
Before the baling
Posted on December 28, 2019
Cee’s latest Black & White Photo Challenge looks for some wavy or squiggly lines.
This image was captured about half a mile from our house, just after the first haymaking of the year had seen the grass cut, but not yet baled. Driving past in the car, I couldn’t help but notice the strong (but, crucially, not straight) leading lines in this field. We stopped, I jumped out and took the original photograph with my iPhone 7.
Memento Mori
Posted on December 20, 2019
In the village of Rancon there is to be found one of comparatively few remaining ‘Lanternes des Morts’. These were memorials to the dead, quite common in medieval times. In this sense such a Lanterne could be described as a memento mori – thereby meeting the theme of ‘two Ms’ for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week.
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