A Breath of French Air – Part 1

We were lucky to be invited to a friends place in France and managed to get over there for a visit last week, here’s part one of the pics I took (okay, I took a few more that will be used for reference images ;-)). Some images from Brantôme… Our friends place had a good supply of sweet chestnuts, but they were a a week or so from being ripe.

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Pledge

We enjoyed visiting the Jackie Morris exhibition at Rheged, Penrith a couple of times this summer. There was a poster on display which we liked however we couldn’t buy a copy (being a poor starving artist and the fact they had none left ;-)). Fast forward a week or three and I was looking for some type to play with, and I decided to make my own version (it’s just for fun), being digital it doesn’t have the same feel but I enjoyed playing.

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First visit

We had a wander this morning to look for a stone circle we’ve never visited before, we tried to find it years ago and completely missed it (but then we didn’t have a map or a phone with us ;-)). Luckily we found the Cockpit Stone Circle quite easily this time, was a bit strange visiting it on a busy day for walkers/cyclists/horse riders and for no one else to pause and look at the stone circle.  

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