Late Autumn - Early winter - The seasons are changing

So often people say "The autumn colours in this area must be quite magnificent" -- as Chateau Lalinde is completely surrounded by large extensive and dense forests. But my reply is always "No. Surprisingly not. As all these forests around me are black oaks (from there the name of Perigord Noir -- or Black Perigord) -- not green oaks, which are the trees that deck themselves out in flamboyant autumnal wear every year. The leaves of the black oaks tend to go brown then fall off quite quickly in the first of the late year winds. Yet this year -- perhaps because of the cool and very wet summer and then the late dry Indian summer that lasted all of September, the trees have turned a riot of colour and the countryside is ablaze in oranges, reds, yellows, golds, browns and greens. It is breathtakingly beautiful in the Dordogne right now!

And yet -- and yet --- there is an iciness in the air -- a touch of frost that bites at ones fingertips, that turns noses -- and ears! -- red, that forms little white clouds around heads that get taken out for an early morning walk.

But the beauty of the countryside at this time of year is pure magic...........


A couple of weekends ago I spent a blissful weekend in the hills above Heidelberg in Germany. During my early morning walk I braved the cold, took one hand out of a glove and took a few pictures of the miracle of a countryside that is frosted over, to share with my readers.........






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