Jaune means yellow in French. Yellow and green are the dominant colors in our landscape right now. And especially since the sky is so resolutely gray.
This is the meadow where two donkeys graze from time to time. You can tell they haven't been out there recently.
By the way, the weather forecast for this afternoon says we should expect stormy showers with sleet or ice pellets.
We had a violent thunderstorm raging over our heads this morning at half past four.The kind you would expect after a hot summer day ... not after an autumn-like day with temperatures of 10°C. This weather can't go on for ever, can it? Martine
ReplyDeleteP.S. Did you get my e-mail?
Oh sorry, yes, Martine, I did get your mail. I forwarded it on to Walt and CHM. All three of us are looking forward to the June 3rd event.
ReplyDeleteHail...
ReplyDeleteI hope not...
the ground is getting better and I've still 100 spuds to get in...
I was going to do that this afternoon...
well, some of them anyhowz!!
Holy cow. How will the tomato plants fare? And everything else?
ReplyDeleteTim, read this:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail
Hail falls as stones. Ice pellets fall as pellets. They are different. You won't get knocked out cold by a pellet.
Maybe hail never falls in the U.K.
No sleet or storminess so far, judy. Our tomato plants are still in the mini-serre out on the terrace, so they are in no jeopardy.
ReplyDeleteGlad you haven't planted any tomatoes in the garden yet!
ReplyDeleteHi E., yeah, the ground is still too cold and too wet. So is the air, actually. Out the window, I see dark
ReplyDeleteclouds building. Oh well, it's not summer yet.
hi Ken! kind of off topic... but do you ever get tornadoes there? i always think of them as a US thing. sorry about your continued gloom there - hopefully you'll get summer soon. :-)
ReplyDeleteHi OhioFG, there have been a couple of tornados in France, with damage, since I moved here ten years ago, but it's nothing like what happens in the U.S. I lived in Illinois for several years too, and I have friends there, so I know a little about tornados.
ReplyDeleteWriting to Tim, who is British, I meant my comment about there maybe being no hailstorms in the U.K. as a question. I did some reading and I found out that they do indeed have hailstorms there. In San Francisco, where I lived for 17+ years, we often had showers of ice pellets in winter, but hailstorms never. Here in Saint-Aignan we can get both or either, but hail much less frequently than sleet or pellets.
You make a good point about the color of spring where you live, Ken. That brought to mind Mme de Sévigné's observation: "la vraie couleur du printemps n’est pas comme on le croit le vert, dont se parent les feuilles, mais le rouge, celle des bourgeons."
ReplyDeleteIt's true, Bob. We went through the red(dish) phase in March and April. Then there was a white phase while the apple, cherry, and plum trees blossomed. I think the yellows are fading now. The photo in my post is about a week old.
ReplyDeleteMerci for the quote, Bob F! I will share that with my french class colleagues! We haven't got a forecast like sleet or hail -
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We are under a hailstorm warning also ( woke up in the middle of the night with lightning and heavy rain) and I have put my car inside just in case . However will have to go out later on.
ReplyDeleteWalt has friends in Albany who experienced a severe hail storm a few days ago. Their car was damaged. Good luck there in Montréal.
ReplyDeleteWell, jaune is better than gris!
ReplyDeleteYellow flowers standing in for the sun, which has been taking a break.
ReplyDeleteOh, c'est très joli. Ces fleurs jaunes au fond, ce sont de genêts ?
ReplyDeleteOui, Olivier, ce sont des genêts au fond. Ils poussent de plus en plus nombreux autour de Saint-Aignan. Malheureusement, je pense que suis allergique à leur pollen.
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