December is the least sunny month of the year, with well under 100 sunshine hours, average maximum temperatures of around 10° and average minimums of around 0°.
Hoar frost on our neighbour's wall last December.
Pixie Cups Cladonia sp, a type of lichen, in the woods between Richelieu and Chinon.
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Loire Valley Nature: A new entry has been added for Agricultural Land Habitat.
Photos have been added to the Violet Limodore Limadorum abortivum entry.
Photos have been added to the Violet Limodore Limadorum abortivum entry.
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A la cuisine hier: Far Breton, a sort of halfway between flan and clafoutis. I used lait ribot (Breton style buttermilk) and my homemade 2013 vin de noix, which is very nicely raisiny and port like these days.
2 comments:
I love the Cladonia group...
so photogenic...
some like safety matches...
others, Swan Vesta matches...
pixie caps like these...
[with the unforgettable Latin name C.pixydata]...
and C.coccifera...
pixies caps for Christmas with their red edges..
as well as mini-trees from the common moorland one that is incorrectly named "Reindeer Moss"...
as an ex-railway modeller, I have used bags of that...
some "died" in strange colours... some au-naturel.
And as for sunshine....
day breaks... the sun rises....
less and less 'till the equinox...
but it is out there somewhere...
we are less than ten hours in and I feel like migrating with the grues....
when I went to let the Wayne and the gals out...
it was bleedin' nithering!!
Tim: Cladonia is a fave of mine too.
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