Our year in monthly photos and wishing all my followers all the very best for 2017 and the coming holidays.

We will be away in a few days time to celebrate Christmas in England with my father-in-law. Computers will be staying at home; only the Nexus tablet will be with us for emailing and maybe the odd single photo on the photodiary.  I find  that blogging on this tablet is beyond me, so I hope to resume when back at home early in the New Year!

Three more posts to go yet on our trip to the USA, but meanwhile here are some of my favourite shots from each month this year!

Blue Tit. 18/01/2016

17/02/2016

Gold finch 10/03/16

Bluebells 16/04/2016

Magpie 09/05/2016

Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel 28/06/2016 USA

Meeting Gaelyn and Bill at the Grand Canyon June/July 2016 USA

Scarce Swallowtail 03/08/2016

Bee on the garlic chives 19/09/2016 

Sunset 16/10/2016

Robin.03/11/2016

Amazing roses still on 11/12/2016

Happy Christmas 

Gesëende Kersfees

Nginifisela inhlanhla ne mpumelelo e nyakeni

Nadolig Llawen

Nollaig Shona Dhuit

Nollaig Chridheil agus Bliadhna Mhath Ur

Buone Feste Natalizie

Feliz Natal

Feliz Navidad!

God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt Ar

Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan

 Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun

 Kung Ho Hsin Hsi. Ching Chi Shen Tan

Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto

Sawadee Pee Mai

Gajan Kristnaskon

Froehliche Weihnachten

Kala Christouyenna

Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova.

Vrolijk Kerstmis en een Gelukkig Nieuw Jaar

See you all in 2017

Just to let you know..........

Just to let you know that we are not (I hope), disappearing from the blog, but as we are off on a special holiday, all will be very quiet probably until at least the end of July.  Here are a few of my favourite photos from this year to see us on our way.

Robin - Jan 2016

Blue Tit - Jan 2016

Daffodil - Feb 2016

Sunset - March 2016

Millau Viaduct - April 2016

Rainbow - April 2016

Green Lizard - May 2016

Bumble Bee - May 2016

Snail - May 2016

Ladybird - May 2016

Also see my daily diary HERE

and My Life Before Charente (updated 09 April 2016) 

Our year in monthly photos and wishing all my followers all the very best for 2016 and the coming holidays.

We will be away in a few days time to celebrate Christmas in England with my father-in-law. Computers will be staying at home; only the Nexus tablet will be with us for emailing and maybe the odd single photo on the photodiary.  I find  that blogging on this tablet is beyond me, so I hope to resume when back at home early in the New Year!

A moody sky driving home 27 January 2015

Greenfinch versus Sparrow 10 February 2015

Our friends from Australia, Gunter and Angie with myself and Nigel out to lunch

29 March 2015

Broad bean flowers,16 April 2015

A trip to Amsterdam 10 May 2015

White Storks 26 June 2015

Queen of Spain Fritillary 11 July 2015

A happy face 19 August 2015

Clouds taken through the bus window after a days' outing with the club 22 September 2015

Rose after the rain 03 October 2015

Small Copper still surviving 12 November 2015

Blue tit 2 December 2015

Happy Christmas 

Gesëende Kersfees

Nginifisela inhlanhla ne mpumelelo e nyakeni

Nadolig Llawen

Nollaig Shona Dhuit

Nollaig Chridheil agus Bliadhna Mhath Ur

Buone Feste Natalizie

Feliz Natal

Feliz Navidad!

God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt Ar

Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan

 Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun

 Kung Ho Hsin Hsi. Ching Chi Shen Tan

Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto

Sawadee Pee Mai

Gajan Kristnaskon

Froehliche Weihnachten

Kala Christouyenna

Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova.

Vrolijk Kerstmis en een Gelukkig Nieuw Jaar

See you all in 2016

Also see my daily diary HERE

and My Life Before Charente (updated 3 December 2015) 

A few of my favourite photos taken so far this year.

01/02/2015 Sunset.

04/04/2015 Rain drop.

05/03/2015 Snowdrop.

08/04/2015 Reflections in a wine glass stem.

11/04/2015 The problem for home grown vegetables !

26/01/2015 Blue Tit at the lounge window. "Where is my food?"

10/02/2015 Greenfinch and Sparrow altercation.

06/04/2015 A red moon.

We will be away for a bit  Off to look at  WW1 battlefields in Northern France and Belgium, before spending a few days in Amsterdam.  Hopefully I will return with some interesting photos. See you all soon.

See also my daily Photo Diary Here

My Life Before Charente  - New post 18/04/2015

A few of my favourite photos taken over the past few weeks.

I was at a loss as to what to blog about this week - is that "blogger's block?".  Due to the miserable weather around here, we have not been anywhere very exciting to write about, but I have been taking numerous photos which I  put on my daily photodiary blog.  As many of you do not follow that diary, I thought I would pick some of my favourite photos from there and publish them here.

Goldfinch in the garden

Tree reflection in a raindrop.

Now if only we had sound on our blogs you would hear this in full force!

Dunnock, usually very shy, in our garden.

A February sunset; very rare, as it hardly stopped raining last month!

 For the car lovers out there, this well-restored 2CV, taken last weekend at the first wine fair of the year in this area.

 Celandine growing in the lawn; note the tiny beetle.

 A talkative blue tit

Crocuses in our 'mushroom' garden.

A greedy blue tit.

 Seconds after taking this photo, he charged straight into the fence behind which I was standing!

An early March sunset

My favourite shot of Le Tardoire river in the "back streets" of La Rochefoucauld, showing a most satisfying reflection in the water, despite the fact it was flowing quite fast.

Last night's sunset.

See also - My Life Before Charente Updated 10/03/2013

and my daily photo diary  HERE

http://photodiarydps.blogspot.com