Hot in the garden

It's been a local day today and the morning was spent largely finding Wendy's garden in amongst the overgrowth. She keeps a very nice perennial English garden in the south of France and her illness has meant there was plenty of work for Janet and her bodging husband...

In the middle of the day we slipped into the pool while all the guests were away at lunch, and in the afternoon we went for as walk along the canal du midi which is where we encountered this fellow, my first dragonfly of the season. Of course I only had my walkabout lens.

In other news, I received several emails from people who appear to be relatives on my mother's parents side. As a part of the family with whom I had no contact to date this is lovely, but of course all my family tree data is at home.