The Big Draught / La grande sécheresse

 A receding oak beam in the wall of a neighbour's préssoir (cider press barn) – 

Snowdrops in March

Norman snowdrops in bloom.

Higher Power?

Did anyone notice? Wherever there is a cross or a crucifix there is always a jumble of electric cables above - as though it is some sort of higher power...

A crossroads near Lake Datheé, Calvados

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

Sunny Bocage

Honey bees swarming to pick the first pollen of the year - from snowdrops.
© A.Anichkin, the Rendezvous Media