Golden Autumn in Normandy

 The colours of Autumn never stop amazing me. As well as the good maintenance of country lanes, presumably a favour to the farmers.

This is a petit chemin between Saint Christophe de Chaulieu and Pont d'Egrenne.

In Norman Fields, Where Poppies Blow

 

A lonely poppy in the field of young wheat.

(Calvados, Normandy)

 

Rainbow in Bayeux

 

Photo by © Natalia Krasnova, 2021

A beautiful rainbow near Bayeux.

A Morning in the Woods

 A morning in Spring, in the woods by the river Egrenne. /  Une méditation du matin au bord de l'eau. (interrompu par le chien noir).

Inspired by Edvard Grieg's 'Morning' from the 'Peer Gynt' suite —

 

A field of wheat or a field of poppies?

It is like a sea of red poppies.
Near Truttemer le Grand, Calvados.

All Saints Day - Halloween 2019

 

A view towards Saint Jean des Bois, Normandy. 

Misty evening on All Saints/Halloween day.

Normandy Light. Dixit Dominus.

Sun piercing the clouds on a Sunday afternoon. Always makes me remember the beautiful music of Dixit Dominus.

Handel's Dixit Dominus —

Wheat field with poppies.

A wheat field with red poppies, near Viessoix, Calvados. / Un champ de blé aux coquelicots rouges près de Viessoix, Calvados

The kind of field Theresa May would have run through as a naughty child.

Percheron Mum.

A Percheron mare at the farm next door had a lovely black foal with white breast.

Wind turbines and a church.

A wind farm towering over the church in Fresne-Porêt, a village on the border between the Orne and South Manche. / Un parc éolien domine l'église à Fresne-Porêt, un petit village à la frontière entre l'Orne et le Sud Manche.

A Winter Day.

A winter day in Normandy.
January 2016.
by Miranda Ingram.

Ginger in Winter.

It's a blustery day but there's a gingerhead that is refusing to shed its cheerful gingerness.

There is a botanical explanation. Still, I like to think it's her character that is different from the others. I like to think I am like her too.

Winter crops 2015. Undulating.

Normandy, her body undulated to the thumping rhythm of our morning march.

Super Spring Tide (Grande Marées) at Mont Saint Michel.

On Saturday, 21 March 2015, the French Grand Ouest (West France) was bashed by a super high spring tide, an event that happens when the Moon passes closest to the Earth on its elliptic orbit. They say it was the grand marées du siecle — spring tide of the century, with tidal waves going as high as a four-story house.

Here is a selection of photos by Joke Reijnders (the Netherlands) who went to see the event firsthand with the family. None of hers got washed away.

However, news reports say at least two people died when they approached the sea too close. See more photos of this event and other pictures of Normandy on her blog In Normandië (text in Dutch).

Frosty Morning.

Frosty Morning (-1ºC) on New Year's Eve.

Homage to Ukraine.

Blue sky and flaming yellow blossom of a rape seed field. The colours of Spring in Normandy.

Blue and yellow are also the colours of Ukrainian national flag. I took this photo near the village of St Cristophe de Chaulieu in South Manche.

First frost in Normandy.

It's +2ºC in Moscow, -1ºC in the Bocage Normand.

Wind Turbines. Generation. (6)

Girl picking flowers in the field in Calvados. Giant wind farm in the background.
Sixth and final picture in the series.

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Wind Turbines. Conflict. (5)

Same spot in the Manche, but the cross and the turbine walk in opposite directions. Fifth photo in the series on wind turbines.

Wind Turbines. Fields of Green. (4)

This field with poppies is on Calvados Plain. Wind farm in the background.

Fourth in the series.