19 August 2020

Down the woodsy path

The road or path through the woods north of our property is a public right-of-way (un chemin communal), as far as I know.
So is the gravel road through the vineyard, but it's more regularly maintained and gets both car and tractor traffic.
The road that runs through the woods is just a tractor path. I've been walking one it a lot this summer.
Here are five photos from a recent walk.

The road through the woods has its starting point just 500 feet from our back gate.
It's another 600 or 700 feet to the bottom.

The path runs down a fairly steep hill, to a kind of gully that's actually a stream bed, though usually dry.

Here you see trees that are falling over. Sometimes they fall onto the path, blocking it.

The village authorities send somebody to cut trees that fall and clear the path again.

These are not the best photos I've ever taken, but they'll have to do for today.
It was pretty dark in the woods on the morning I took them, so they came out blurry.
I've tried to salvage them, and I like the atmosphere they convey.

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  1. Except for the last one, your photos are very godd and render (?) very well the atmosphere of this path. Lovely.

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    1. My camera was on an unusual setting, and I didn't realize it until I saw the photos on my computer screen. That explains the blur — it's not exactly a flou artistique... Anyway, since I have new eyeglasses and am still getting used to them, I'm seeing fuzzy much of the time these days.

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  2. This looks like a cooler place to walk during such hot weather...

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    1. Exactly. I've been enjoying the walk. It's good exercise to trudge back up the hill. That's why I often take my pruning shears with me and keep the thorny vines at bay. And Tasha likes the walk, I can tell.

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  3. Tasha is lucky to get to have that walk :)

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    1. She likes to walk slow and sniff everything. Except when she sees a deer in the vineyard or hears one moving around in the woods.

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  4. That last photo reminds me of jigsaw puzzles we have done!

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  5. That’s a cool path and it looks cool too!

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    1. It is cool temperature-wise, but after I walk back up the hill I realize I've broken a sweat.

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