Peonies in a village garden

Handsome door

Farm cat

A loo or a dog kennel?

Peonies

Footless mallard

Meadow opposite our accommodation

Large copper

Stately Home

In the garden

Snapdragon

Bygones

Bygones

Stately Home in better days

Bygones

Sempervivum in the garden

Goat enquires

Khazi

What is the bucket for?

The Museum

Chickory

Thalictrum flavum Subsp. glaucum

Meadow flowers

Copper roof

Limestone pavement

Chafers on an Aruncus - a male plant, full of stamens

Mullein

Phyteuma ovatum

Indistinct picture of a Large Wall Brown

Phyteuma and fritillary

View over the valley

Clytra quadripunctata 

Common Lizard, Zootoca vivipara

Hello!

We pasta for lunch at a café.   The owner made teas from the herbs in her garden and from the surrounding countryside.

Paul drove through very poor visibility to a site in the virgin woods

The weather was deteriorating

Misty wood

Virgin wood

Veronica

Dactylorrhiza fuchsii

Acinos arvensis

We enjoyed climbing up a hill with short grass and many varieties of flowers including orchids.

Hawkweed - Hieracium villosum

Plantago media

Polygonatum

Euphorbia

Rock garden

Rock garden

Rock garden

Recession

We did not climb to the top of the hill

Rock garden

Oxytropis jacquinii

Rock garden

Marsh fritillary

Gentian acaulis

Creeping thyme

False Heath / Freyer's fritillary

 Ringlet

Roe deer

Laburnum

Alpine rhododendron

Alpine newt

Help!

What a whopper!   Enough to turn a gardener to murder...

Helleborine

Hydro-plant

Saxifrage

View from the restaurant, odd effect on the river.