Random notes

Been a bit quiet around here on the old blogging front.  Not much to report in fact, aside from the general depression associated with the curfew, and the equally general increasing anger about it.   However I do get to walk about the countryside (if it's not raining, and as long as I'm back before bedtime) so here's a few random snaps from recent walks.

We have been spared the snow here, but only just;  it was falling not far away.   In fact it has been a bumper snowfall for the ski resorts down South.  They have been allowed to open, but the mechanical lifts have been forbidden to operate.   The ski stations are not happy.  One wag suggested that the swimming pools be re-opened, but not filled with water.

This is frost, on a walk one cold morning, and was the whitest we have had so far.   Later on I happened past the garage where M Mottais told me he started out on his engineering career - here it is.

Property in the countryside around here is often old, and has been maintained more or less well for many decades.   As a consequence, the state of things is quite varied.  Sometimes one comes across some fine repair and maintenance work, as with this wall with its little wooden gate in solid oak.   The wall looks like it will be pointed in a sand/lime mix soon.

And who paints a target on a sawn-off log end, in the middle of nowhere, beside the river?