Thanks for all the compliments! I love Canada but I think I envy your milder winters. Would love to see the french country side sometime! as well as the rest of Europe.
I do not own a gun but many people here do. Prairie chickens are great to eat, a lot of people love them, I have never tried them before. They are pretty small, and beautiful. At my old place there used to be wild turkeys a few miles out of town. One day we chased one down and cooked it for supper, was quite good.
my brother has snapped a few great pictures of a snowy owl (he has a rather nice camera) but I have never been able to get a decent shot with my phone camera, the owls are very shy and fly away well before I get close enough with my little phone. Had a great horned owl here one day in fall too, and saw a bald eagle during migration season. Glad they passed on through though! Those owls are notorious chicken snatchers.
I will get him to email me some of his snowy owl pics and then post them here.
Hi, Johngreen! What an interesting place to live. My dad was in the RAF during WW2, doing something or other (he'd never tell us what) near Winnipeg. His photos and tales of the wintertime were amazing - including a too-close encounter with a bear, and how you can climb a tree in skis if you accidentally come across a moose.
Anyway, greetings from the Pennines - a bit less flat than your area! Part of my garden is on a 45 degree slope.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Hi, Johngreen! What an interesting place to live. My dad was in the RAF during WW2, doing something or other (he'd never tell us what) near Winnipeg. His photos and tales of the wintertime were amazing - including a too-close encounter with a bear, and how you can climb a tree in skis if you accidentally come across a moose.
Anyway, greetings from the Pennines - a bit less flat than your area! Part of my garden is on a 45 degree slope.
any pictures? that would be interesting, i love the hills. Been reading Watership Down lately, rabbits in the english countryside, would love to see those rolling hills!
Hi again, Johngreen! Just got use of the computer which has our photos stored on it, so you can see the countryside round my way. I live in an old mill town (they spun and wove cotton, wool & silk here until the mid-20th century) in the north of England. I imagine Watership Down to be set more in the south, maybe around the South Downs, which is softer country than where I am.
This is the view from my front window in the snow:
and this is a general view of the town, taken one May.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Oh wow! those pics are straight out of a fairy tale! Man oh man I love that. Where I am gets boring sometimes because its all just flat prairie. Post more pics! haha, as many as can fit :P
Hello John. I live in Dordogne in France, which is an area of rolling hills, forests, rivers, chateaux (castles) and history. Here are some photos. In one of them I am in a boat on the river Dordogne, which is a lovely river for swimming and canoeing but it's about an hours drive from me. There is a lot of limestone so a lot of the houses are built of limestone and are very old.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Hello John. Your place looks lovely and peaceful. I live in SW France
Thanks for all the compliments! I love Canada but I think I envy your milder winters. Would love to see the french country side sometime! as well as the rest of Europe.
I do not own a gun but many people here do. Prairie chickens are great to eat, a lot of people love them, I have never tried them before. They are pretty small, and beautiful. At my old place there used to be wild turkeys a few miles out of town. One day we chased one down and cooked it for supper, was quite good.
my brother has snapped a few great pictures of a snowy owl (he has a rather nice camera) but I have never been able to get a decent shot with my phone camera, the owls are very shy and fly away well before I get close enough with my little phone. Had a great horned owl here one day in fall too, and saw a bald eagle during migration season. Glad they passed on through though! Those owls are notorious chicken snatchers.
I will get him to email me some of his snowy owl pics and then post them here.
Hi, Johngreen! What an interesting place to live. My dad was in the RAF during WW2, doing something or other (he'd never tell us what) near Winnipeg. His photos and tales of the wintertime were amazing - including a too-close encounter with a bear, and how you can climb a tree in skis if you accidentally come across a moose.
Anyway, greetings from the Pennines - a bit less flat than your area! Part of my garden is on a 45 degree slope.
any pictures? that would be interesting, i love the hills. Been reading Watership Down lately, rabbits in the english countryside, would love to see those rolling hills!
Hi again, Johngreen! Just got use of the computer which has our photos stored on it, so you can see the countryside round my way. I live in an old mill town (they spun and wove cotton, wool & silk here until the mid-20th century) in the north of England. I imagine Watership Down to be set more in the south, maybe around the South Downs, which is softer country than where I am.
This is the view from my front window in the snow:
and this is a general view of the town, taken one May.
That looks lovely Liri. We have rolling hills too, in Dordogne.
We had a lovely holiday in the Dordogne, 20 years ago. Must go again...
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Baz
Oh wow! those pics are straight out of a fairy tale! Man oh man I love that. Where I am gets boring sometimes because its all just flat prairie. Post more pics! haha, as many as can fit :P
Hello John. I live in Dordogne in France, which is an area of rolling hills, forests, rivers, chateaux (castles) and history. Here are some photos. In one of them I am in a boat on the river Dordogne, which is a lovely river for swimming and canoeing but it's about an hours drive from me. There is a lot of limestone so a lot of the houses are built of limestone and are very old.