A Walk Along the Sauvaget, Part II

Here are some more photos from our walk from Preuilly, along the Sauvaget and back again. Part I is here.

The back of the Abbey at Preuilly.

This was taken in Preuilly from the top of the chateau's outer defensive bank, looking over Belvedere's garage roof.

A male Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis (Fr. Alouette des champs) hovering and delivering his scritchy scratchy song, much romanticised by English poets, composers and writers.

Passing some lovely flowering trees.

This little stream, the Sauvaget, provided the power to start the Industrial Revolution between Preuilly and Bossay. Mills along this tiny stream were processing locally mined iron ore.

The setting for this house in a hollow is attractive, but I think a frost pocket.

Flint nodules, no doubt gathered locally, topping a roof terrace wall in a hamlet along the Sauvaget.

Antique bird cage (thankfully unoccupied).

The rear entrace to a property in the hamlet of Sauvaget.

Blossoming pear trees in pasture.

Typical rolling Claise Valley countryside.

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