Saturday, July 4, 2015

France Photo Diary June 2015

Giving birth to a bail of hay.  I loved watching this machine going up and down the field producing these bails of hay.

We love the unusual experience of being on a canal crossing over a river.

Low bridge, the pilot house is lowered and Tom peeks out to see where he is going.
We saw this sign along the canal which sent us on an adventure.

There was a sign along the canal advertising fresh goat cheese.  We stopped for honey, goat cheese and champagne.  The challenge was in finding the farm house.  We drove down "country lanes" that hadn't been driven on in quite some time.

Captain Kevin showed us what remains of the old dairy barn where we went "shopping."  
 We visited the town of Montgnon.  There we found an archeological museum Porte du Croux.
Old mosaic tile floor

In the town of Montgnon

More of Montagnon

Magnificent stained glass windows in the cathedral

A dog at a carnival
This may be beyond his job description, but Kevin climbed a cherry tree and picked cherries for me

Clafouti thanks to Kevin's endeavors


In Nevers we had dinner outside across from our boat.
This Muskrat kept us company while we ate dinner outside in Nevers

Happy cows relaxing after lunch

The lock broke when it sprang a hydrolic leak

Art we saw along side the canal.

Face to face with a Charolais cow.  These are the famous white cows of Burgundy.  She is saying to us "how could you possibly want to eat me?"

The canal is covered with flowers dropping from the trees

More of our scenery

Beautiful horses frolicking in the green fields along the canal

It can be a tight fit when we come across traffic in the canal


I'm helping open one of the manual locks

Storks nest.


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