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Keep Off the Grass
hay wheel hawk over tractorIt’s hay-making season in the Pays-de-Gex. The farmers are out with their tractors cutting the grass, drying it, and baling it. But they’re not alone! If you look closely at...
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A Walk to Divonne
pale tussock caterpillar (Calliteara pudibunda) Summer has gone, Autumn is here. Trees are shedding leaves, flowers are fading fast, and the house-martins left a while ago. But as Jane points out in...
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Snow in the Jura
footpath covered in snow Just a few days ago, I commented over at The Marvellous in Nature that we didn’t have enough snow yet for snow-shoeing. Well that has all changed! We now have several...
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While out walking
Mont Blanc and Alps from the Pays de Gex Spring almost came to the Pays de Gex recently, and our morning walks were more pleasant for a while. It’s cold again now, but for a few days it was even warm...
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Oh look, a volcano!
dust in the air over the Geneva valley Well, maybe not a volcano, exactly, but at sunset yesterday we could certainly see the dust in the air from the eruption in Iceland. The shadow of the cloud shows...
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