Having driven up the giant Col du Tourmalet yesterday, we thought we’d try another of the Tour de France cols, the Col d’Aspin. The most important quality an organizer of Le Tour can possess is that he or she be…
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Col d’Aspin
Posted in 2011 Autumn Tagged with: Bagnere-de-Bigorre, Col d'Aspin, dragonflies, France, nature, odonata, Payrolle, photography, travel, wildlife
Emerald Sunset
Amongst the poor showing of dragonflies remaining on farmer Luc’s lake this September is the Willow Emerald (Lestes viridis). Willow Emeralds are interesting critters in that they do not oviposit in water. Rather, they lay their eggs in the thinner,…
Posted in 2011 Autumn Tagged with: damselflies, dragonflies, Fanjeaux, France, nature, odonata, photography, travel, wildlife
Red Letter Day
Well, pink actually, but I need some poetic license. 😀 During our June trip here, Francine spotted an unusual looking dragonfly; unusual in that it was the shape of a Scarlet Darter (Crocothemis erythrea) but t appeared to be pink…
Posted in 2011 Autumn Tagged with: damselflies, dragonflies, France, nature, odonata, photography, travel, wildlife
Satan in Heaven
We have arrived back at the site that I tend to refer to as our slice of heaven the sheep farm at Fanjeaux. What made it so heavenly for me? Well, it is a small site of just 25 very…
Posted in 2011 Autumn Tagged with: birds, damselflies, dragonflies, Fanjeaux, France, nature, odonata, travel, wildlife
Provence Summary
We moved on from Provence to Montagnac in the Hérault today. Here, we are meeting up with friends Mike & Linda and hoping to celebrate a double birthday in Francine’s favourite birthday lunch spot, Marseillan harbour. It’s a double birthday…
Posted in 2011 Autumn Tagged with: damselflies, dragonflies, France, nature, photography, Provence, travel, wildlife
Étang des Aulnes
For our last day in Les Alpilles we thought we’d call into another noted wildlife habitat and Odonata spotting spot in these parts called the Étang des Aulnes. It’s a Sunday and, being a fishermans’ hang out, I was rather…
Posted in 2011 Autumn Tagged with: Camargue, dragonflies, Etang des Aulnes, France, nature, odonata, photography, travel, wildlife
Peau de Meau
There are many so-called flat areas in the world. In the UK, the county of Norfolk is generally, somewhat disparagingly referred to as being flat: “Oh, Norfolk, yes, it’s terribly flat”. From an alcohol-dulled memory, I seem to recall that…
Posted in 2011 Autumn Tagged with: damselflies, dragonflies, France, nature, photography, travel, wildlife
Barn Doors
It’s been a funny ol’ day. I need to back up a little, though. Yesterday we trotted off to McD’s for a dose of McWiFi to post some blog entries, all of which were lurking in Windows Live Writer on…
Little and Large
Another long hop (for us heading south) of 300 miles-ish from La Brenne to Millau, home of the magnificent Norman Foster designed viaduct. Apparently, Norman Foster also designed that so-called Gherkin building in London but everyone has their off days.…
Surprising Afternoon
As it turned out, the weather wasn’t anything like as bad as we were led to believe. In fact, the afternoon was quite pleasant. So pleasant that, once again, we returned to our local, small (no) fishing lakes. Once again…
Posted in 2011 Autumn Tagged with: damselflies, dragonflies, France, nature, odonata, photography, travel, wildlife
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