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[oldwheels]

Not so many Red Admirals among the thousands of Painted Ladies but I eventually got this one on my phone.

 

[briantrumpet]

I thought all the lavender here had been harvested so last night's sighting was a bonus...

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I thought all the lavender here had been harvested so last night's sighting was a bonus...

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That reminds me of my 2017 cycling trip to France. The tour group I was in stayed at a hotel near Bedoin, and the day before we rode up Mont Ventoux, we rode through the Gorge de la Nesque, and passed a lavender field much like that one on the way back to the hotel.

 

[briantrumpet]

One day this road's going to slide off the mountain...

 

[Andy_R]

The village of Kandersteg in the Canton of Bern, seen from the cable car station at Oeschinensee

The glacial lake of Oeschinensee and some 45 or so Explorer Scouts from County Durham

 

[Shut Up Legs]

One day this road's going to slide off the mountain...

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That was my thought during several of my recent French Alps rides. Some of the roads are in pretty precarious locations.

 

[briantrumpet]

That was my thought during several of my recent French Alps rides. Some of the roads are in pretty precarious locations.

Indeed they are, and though some of them serve tiny populations, they do a brilliant job of keeping them open, most of the time. When they do have to close them for repair work, sometimes the diversions are extremely long. Goodness knows what they do when there is a major problem with a single dead-end road serving a remote village!

 

[tom73]

The garden nectar bar was hard at work this morning. Full of lovely customers

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Military trainee pilot getting his low flying practise in today:

 

[Heltor Chasca]

You know not to leave wet cycling shoes in the tent. Now look!

 

[tom73]

Should wipe off if not do same more and be the only one with a patterned ground sheet. Once word gets round everyone will want one

 

[briantrumpet]

Another butterfly from my evening stroll:

 

[mickle]

 

[tom73]

Came home from a day out by the sea to find we had a visitor. After a few go's they finally left

 

[briantrumpet]

The same buddleia bush, but a beetle, rather than a butterfly, this time. A 'rose chafer' beetle, apparently.