Normandy in blossom: the whites

Last days of April - and Normandy is starting to get covered in apple blossom.

The sustainable Bocage - an example

And here is what a just harvested hedge looks like. Stacks of freshly harvested wood left to dry near the Manor of Boisjos, Orne.

The sustainable Bocage

The bocage hedges of Normandy are incredible sustainable systems. Beeches, oaks, hawthorns and hazels are planted in a tall narrow wall-like fashion. Every year some trees are harvested for timber and firewood while many are left to keep the hedge going. In many places new hedges are laid, in others the mighty roots are made bare by the elements...

Sent by Alice MacAlistair, Vire valley

Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial

Four American women who died during the liberation of France are buried at the Military Cemetery near Omaha Beach.


Spring cleaning at the Cemetery.



Bayonet in the ground - a symbol of final peace (installation at the Visitors' Center).

Living in our garden (2): Feeding George

Sent by Charles & Charlotte Liddell
Bayeux area

Living in our garden (1): Toad in the hole

Sent by Thierry Cingal,
Montsecret, Orne
Published in the April issue of the Rendezvous magazine