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Isobel Cunningham has published short fiction and poetry. Her book, Northern Compass is available on Amazon. She was born in Wales but Montreal is her adopted home. She speaks French, Modern Greek ( it’s a fun story) and a little Spanish…oh, English too, of course. She welcomes comments on her blog and looks forward to chatting with you over cyber-space.

Around the garden

The queen’s earrings

That’s the translation of the Greek name of this flower and I’m sure she would be charmed with such jewels

Don’t know the name of this beautiful plant

but it grows high and seems to be a favourite of bees!

Still enjoying roses
And azalea

And the pets are basking in the sun.

I took the doggies for an early walk

As some kind friends of my hosts invited me for lunch and a quick stop at the supermarket for bread and fruit.

LOOKING AT THE VILLAGE

The houses are beautiful and quite far apart so it doesn’t quite feel like what I consider à “ village”.

Sights like this huge pig

bring me back to earth though.

Traditional storage sheds for corn

I had seen these in the neighbouring province of Galicia but was a bit surprised to see them here too. The idea is to store the corn and grain up where rodent’s can’t get them. a few curious sheep on the way home

convinced me that it really is a village …. With a view!

From the lookout
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