On a French Hill Top

Well, here I am, sitting in the cottage with the heating going full blast, because the beautiful Spring weather we were enjoying a while ago has completely deserted us. Today, May 1st, is a big day in France, and I was looking forward to visiting a few brocantes. But the weather gods were incredibly mean. It has been raining practically non stop for the last 24 hours and it is so cold.

To cheer myself up, and because I can't do anything outside, I looked through some photographs I took a while ago, when the weather was rather nicer, and spent some time editing them. 

I always take the dogs out for a little walk first thing in the morning, and every day, the view of the valley below us is so excitingly different. I took these photos probably 10 days ago. Our cottage was bathed in sunshine, yet he valley was filled with a thick layer of cloud again. Slowly, the clouds rose and kind of dissolved into thin layers which drifted up and up and finally embraced our cottage -

I just adore that kind of beautifully diffused soft light, when the sun filters through the mist.

I don't have any flower beds at the cottage, but I try and make up for it by filling pots and tubs with flowers and different herbs -

The wisteria is flowering -

and the very first rose appeared on one of the rose bushes -

I took the photos after we had had a few days of marvellous sunshine and warmth, and everything had grown like crazy. Fruit was setting on the blackcurrants and white currants -

figs started appearing on our tiny fig tree -

and the strawberries started flowering -

Even my little salad plants were growing! -

And best of all, my seeds started sprouting, yay! -

So, while I sit here looking out at a very soggy French hill top, I think back to those lovely sunny days and hope that they will return real soon. I need sunshine!

I hope the sun shines on you wherever you are. Toodlepip xxx