Optimistically leaving heavy coats and scarves at home, we discover that sitting in the semi-shade of a willow tree by the water is pleasurable but somewhat chilly! However, we enjoy our lunch…
…and afterwards enjoy a pleasant drive past hedgerows and trees festooned with Traveller’s Joy (Old Man’s Beard) and beyond Gremilly and through the Ornes Forest to Louvemont, noting activity by several yellow butterflies and a few others - white, orange, brown ones (all too lively to be captured by my camera but lovely to see) and on past the cemeteries and monuments surrounded by forests at Douamont.
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| Twisted tree roots covered by grass which looks like emerald-green velvet. |
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| Long view of the forest we drove through. |
Spring is definitely in the air and this will certainly not be our last picnic-lunch outing.
You picnic in style, Ida. I think we've had more of the "huddle-in-the-car-and-try not to make crumbs" sort so far this year!
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm envious of the number of butterflies you are spotting too!
Had a few of those too. Glad I did the French way with a cloth - the top of the picnic table was a bit grotty! It was lovely to see butterflies out and about...far more springlike.
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