Spring green

To save myself from posting another blip of plane trees/vines/flowers, I did some experimenting, swooshing the camera up and down while pressing the shutter. I picked this one after twiddling with several of them -- it's SOOC apart from slight adjustments to contrast and saturation. No prizes for guessing what it is.

On the good news front, following the closure of the village's only shop, a man in a van turned up selling fruit and vegetables today, and said he would come twice a week. When we first moved here, there were half a dozen mobile shops that visited weekly, but supermarkets and petrol costs finished them off, except for the charcutier and the butcher. With so many local shops closing, maybe they will make a comeback -- though I'm not convinced they're really viable, especially for something as cheap as vegetables. Anyway, as a result, for dinner we had oeufs en cocotte with asparagus followed by strawberries and mascarpone