On Wednesday 13 September I joined Joel, Denise and Helene to do a 10 kilometre walk around Preuilly sur Claise, taking 2 hours. It was simultaneously very sweaty and quite foggy.
The municipality of Preuilly sur Claise has installed a nice shelter with toilets, maps, photos, picnic tables and bike repair station alongside the greenway (Fr. voie verte) at the old train station.
Albert Einstein on a chopper bike, street art by Olivier, along the greenway.
The fruits on this Prunus sp made me think it was a hybrid between a sloe and another plum species. The fruits were larger than sloes, but much smaller than a plum, quite sweet and tasty, with only a hint at the end of the sloe astringency.
Le Paradis in the fog.
Peucedanum cervaria (syn Cervaria rivini) (Fr. le Peucedan Herbes aux cerfs), which grows on hot calcareous clay sites and flowers in the autumn. Related to carrots and parsley.
An abandoned Citroen H Van.
A dairy farmer spreading slurry on a field. None of us had ever seen this before. The pipe from the slurry pit must have been well over 100 m long and snaked all over the field behind the tractor.
A pack of hounds, including some Porcelaines, a breed I find very attractive and I was once sorely tempted to take a gunshy rescue bitch.
The hamlet of La Parentiere.
Rural track.
Wild Service Tree Sorbus torminalis (Fr. Alisier torminal).
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