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Nantes Parks – Parc de la Morinière in mid-Spring
Nantes Parks – Parc de la Morinière au début du printemps
Moss still thrives from the moisture on stones and trees from the night cold.
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Nantes Parks – Parc de la Morinière en hiver
This week we experienced the “Moscow” winter, a cold front coming from Russia bringing the temperature down to -10 overnight for a week. It’s not cold enough on the north ice cap. In Paris, public transport was brought to a halt but the days weren’t all grey here near the Atlantique coast. Gloves, hat and coat and camera and one of the best walks ever. A full display of new winter flowering plants was a surprise. A small but lovely consolation.
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Nantes Parks – Parc De La Morinière
I won’t ever forget the exhilaration during my first Summer in France as I discovered the manor and its Japanese garden reached via a park which shared an overgrown boundary with the rear of our garden. I came to it unexpectedly under the huge Japanese elm at the end of three kilometers of cow paddocks and shady riverbank paths, somewhere between lazy suburbia and heaven. We sat and ate cake from an old painted cake tin and I knew there and then, I was in France. The soft shadows of the glades give way to remnants of an industrial past.
