Fabulous day

We’ve been enjoying some exceedingly fine weather over recent days, even better than this time last year when I was working in the house and also on 56NE’s new panel. I had my worst year ever for flying last year and only managed a few measly hours because of poor weather, having to get my French licence and getting 56NE back into the air. However, I’ve been making up for it this month alone and we’re still only half-way through. I didn’t fly today because of having other things I needed to do, but the conditions would have been perfect with unlimited visibility, uninterrupted blue skies and very little wind. We had a high of 25/26 degrees Celsius and it was like a warm Summer’s day back in the south of England, except here it’s still Spring with the leaves on the trees a brilliant green, the lilacs out in white and purple and smelling wonderful and trees everywhere smothered in blossom.

I had two friends to stay for a couple of nights over the week-end while on their way to Spain and the weather was perfect while they were here. I cut my grass a day or so before they arrived and cut it again yesterday and now it’s beginning to look more like it does in Summer, a bit dry with one or two dusty patches. Even so, I thought that the house and garden looked a picture in the sunshine today.

Last year, I played around a bit creating wide panoramic shots by stitching several images together in Photoshop. This year I have a new Panasonic camera that does the job for me automatically and here are a few shots that I took today of my house and front garden.

I also took a similar shot of the field across the road from my house, sweeping round from the north-east to the south. It gives a distorted view of the road because of the size of the viewing angle that it covers, but shows perfectly what fabulous weather we had today.

As I’ve mentioned previously, Galinat can be seen in the distance from my front garden. I also took a conventional shot to the south-west using my camera’s telephoto lens and the conditions today meant that detail of the field could be clearly seen.

Val’s arriving tomorrow for a few days and disappointingly, it looks as though the spell of fine weather will be coming to an end with a forecast of cooler temperatures and light showers over the week-end. However, I don’t think that we’ll let that dampen our spirits or spoil our fun 😉