Here's the last of the photos that I'm posting from the Sologne, taken in 2006. Another grate. I had just got my first digital camer...

The closer I look at this panel, the more I think it's a wooden plank with holes drilled into it. There looks to be wood grain. The hole...

It's a joke. I know how to spell chuddor shoddre shudder. Shuttered window, Mennetou-sur-Cher, May 2006. Not much to say this morning....

I wonder what this little door leads to. Perhaps an old coal chute? I'll never know. I wonder if there's a key for that lock. I actu...

I think this would be called un grillage in French, but I'm not certain. The ground floor windows in our house have wrought iron grille...

This is the front yard of a house in Mennetou-sur-Cher (I think). Everything is impeccable. Not a weed to be seen in the gravel. A nice neat...

I used to see a lot of planeurs (gliders or sailplanes) in the sky above our neighborhood each summer. Since the pandemic, of course, none....

This is un canard colvert (green necked duck), what English speakers call a mallard duck. It's a male with its characteristic bright co...

Bert woke me up last night just after eleven. Meow, meow! I thought he wanted kibble, so I got up and went downstairs to put his bowl down. ...

What makes me think that I took the last two photos in the small town of Mennetou-sur-Cher is that among them is this one, which is definite...

I'm not sure where this photo was taken, but it might be in the small town of Mennetou-sur-Cher. I know we were there with our Californi...

The Sologne is a historical province in central France a little south and west of Orléans, south of the Loire River. Where we live is on its...