New Cover Picture

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As I am easily bored I changed the cover picture again.

This one was taken in St Rémy de Sillé in Normandy. It is tribute to the farmers that spend their lives growing wheat, the combine harvester dirvers that cut it sown again and mainly, to the guys that drive tractors all day and every day with piles of bales on the back!

Why it needs to be transported across the countryside seems a mystery.  Every field seems already jam packed with the bales, some round, some rectangular, but all seemingly in the wrong place!
St Lambert sur Dives
Near St Lambert sur Dives

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