Happy New Year 2018

Happy New Year to Everyone!My sincere wishes for your happiness and progress in the new year!

Best wishes for Christmas and The New Year to you all

The best wishes for the holidays from Gallery Xpremental and Elisabeth's Bright Side.

May we learn to treasure the good moments and let them colour our day.

A few photos from Southern Norway and Southern France for christmas.

From Norway

From France, view to the Pyrenèes,

 and Limoux. Always a grand round-about

 

Snow Watch 16. March

The Spring has sprung. Yes, it was. Today we are back in the Winter mood. We know it wont last for long, but we changed back to boots to tackle snow covering slippery ice.

On my way to our weekly cafè rendez-vous I noticed the change of scenery.

 

The snow had made thick cushions on the cafè chairs .

 I brought my "Latte" back in remembering an earlier post from France.

Change of scenes

Early morning Friday

A beautiful day with crisp air
















Early morning Saturday

 And then

 

 And we got a bright day. That wasn't only with crisp air, it was cold too.

So the cat

 and I kept the warmth between the Acer and the Mac comparing stories about Chrirstmas.

On a warm day in the Du Razes area

 The sun is shining and life is good in the warmth from the sun and a crispy stack of hay in front of a walnut tree.

The duck and the and the old hen has newly got seeds and leftover goodies from the kitchen. The hen is hardly laying eggs anymore, but deserves to be retired. The duck came sailing one day and escaped the fois gras ending of her life, so she willingly pays back with eggs too. Sadly not so much greenary in the pen at winter time, but it'll come back.




On a farm nearby, there are a lot of free range chicken, ducks and geese.
As I heard on a farmers market in Australia. If these hens are more free range, they would be feral.
Sometimes the birds find their way out on the road and we watch closely when we're passing.