A good decision...

On Thursday morning as we tried to avoid the rain while making a visit to Preuilly-sur-Claise we were thinking there was no chance that the weekly walk with our randonne club was going to go ahead in the afternoon.

At lunchtime Pauline reviewed the weather by using her trusted method of 'looking out the window'. It looked as if it was clearing up, so we made the decision to head over to Le Grand Pressigny to see if anyone else had the same idea. As it happens our intrepid leader was there when we arrived and then a further six brave souls joined us.

 The walk was a circular route in the woods around L'Abbeye and its etang.

It was beautifully autumnal and the rain stayed off. It turned out also to be a mushroom gathering and educational walk with one of the ladies managing to fill a couple of bags with edible varieties and explanations and investigations on Google for others.

 

  

The longer we walked the more the weather improved...

you can see the difference in these two pics taken on the two occasions we passed the lake.

A welcome walk in the woods...

Friends organised an impromptu walk yesterday in the woods around L'Abbeye, just outside Le Grand-Pressigny as a precursor to the randonnee season restarting. The warm sunny day made the shade of trees very welcoming.

We had a water stop here which prompted quite a discussion...but that is for another time perhaps!

This area of woodland seems, to the untrained eye, to be well managed although at one point our path was completely blocked by a very large fallen tree. Jungle Jim (a title bestowed on me by the photographer!) was the only one man enough to scramble over it!

It wasn't all woodland as we passed these sad sunflowers on the route,shame their season isn't longer and the etang d'Abbeye'.

It was a good walk in good company.