Friday, April 27, 2007

Spring (or early summer) in the Dordogne

The vegetable patch, potager, as they say here, is coming along just fine.

The catalpas are very early, normally they don't start until May, and I am afraid to look behind the lawnmower, as the grass grows so fast I may have to start all over again.
The snowball (is this English?) flowers abundantly, just beautiful.



We already have roses! What a spring!



And this is a Maythorn, the name says it all.
And what about this, a beautiful Rhododendron.

Even the pool is already 21C, last year this time it was 16C. I was always very sceptical about the greenhouse effect, but start to doubt now. Anyway, we have done our bit, we changed to more fuel efficient cars and burn more firewood, which the French government promotes.

Sure hope it helps, although I like the weather for now.