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Tag Archives: sunflowers
Plenty of sunshine, coming our way…
We are currently enduring what the French call a canicule and we English-speakers call a heat wave. The entire southwest of France (in which we reside) is under a weather warning, and the papers are full of advice about staying … Continue reading
How dry we are …
Rain obviously plays a critical role in the Greater Daglan Area, not only watering our many forests and fields of corn, sunflowers, tobacco and walnut trees, but also feeding our creeks and rivers. But it’s not exactly Mr. Dependable. This … Continue reading
Our fields of gold
Suddenly, as April began to warm up and the rains started to slow down, the Greater Daglan Area began to be carpeted in fields of gold. Well, okay, the colour is actually yellow, but gold sounds better. At the moment, … Continue reading
The last rays of summer (2016 edition)
Yesterday morning my wife Jan walked back into our house, after a short shopping excursion, and said: “Well, it looks like winter is killing the market already.” Okay, it’s not actually winter, but Jan was right — now that the … Continue reading
Summer ends, the best month begins
As we’ve moved into September, there are signs that summer is winding down. Day-time highs are still in the 30-degrees-Celsius range, but mornings are cool. A prolonged lack of rain has started to give a dried-out look to some of the … Continue reading
Ka-bloom! (Our flower explosion)
Pretty much all of the Greater Daglan Area has exploded into bloom, thanks to some decent periods of rain and now an immense amount of sunshine. (So, did you get “Ka-bloom!”? It’s like “Ka-boom,” only … okay, okay, you got … Continue reading
The shutters close, the Season ends
Come September 1st in the Greater Daglan Area, it’s as if someone closes the shutters all at once. The curtains come down. The door is slammed shut. In other words, after the two months of July and August, the Tourist … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture in the Dordogne, Flora and fauna, Holidays in France, Life in southwest France, Markets in France, Travels in and out of France, Weather in the Dordogne
Tagged campgrounds, Daglan, Dordogne walnuts, Dordogne weather, Fabrice le Chef, flowering trees, flowers, Le Thé Vert, Les Cascades, nature, plants, Sunday markets, sunflowers, walnut groves, walnut trees, walnuts, weather
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