On Saturday my friend accompanied me on this walk I had been intending for some time. The track wasn't always where I wanted one, and in one place woodland had been ploughed by the farmer!
The confluence was difficult to see through the river bank shrubs and trees. The soil was alluvial. Lovely word...the land probably isn't geographically speaking such, but... I like the sound of words...
Uxorious is another word I like the sound of ... and the meaning!
The ground was strewn with interesting stones; a large 'potato stone' I carried home! Some of the rounded stones were far too huge to move but a river could dislodge and move them over the years!
We came across a millenium garden out in the middle of nowhere. Now that isn't true. The somewhere was Confluent - an agricultural hameau and when I saw it a few years ago, on a Patrimoine day, it seemed untouched.
BUT NOW, if you look on Google map you can see where builders and farmers have carved out the soil to renovate a house, expanding land like a gravel pit but it isn't one. AND also, several buildings have been re-roofed with red brick colour metal. OH DEAR! What of conservation?
We went because I wished my friend to see the wind powered turbine invented, constructed by Ernest Bollée and one of his sons Auguste, who, I think also have something to do with the invention of bicycles and I was led to believe that the auto-moto-velo museum at Chatellerault has information about them. I have a leaflet somewhere!
PHOTOWALK
The Millenium Garden is rather nice and I can imagine sitting on one of the available benches in the sunshine of peaceful solitude reading a book....
On the way back two man made lakes seemed much bigger than when I was last there. WE came across a dolmen which was once considered the best in the region but last century it was destroyed.
PEOPLE!!!
The stones around once marked the limit of the tumulus ... it was once a burial hill...
