Returning from an excellent yoga retreat led by Sonia Ama and Marion Duval we found the garden full of sunshine, bees and poppies.
The poppies pop up all over the garden and are appreciated by us and all the bees.
May is a time when so much blooms in the garden but this year the weather is hot and dry. Today is 33 degrees at 5 p.m. in the evening, there has never been such a hot May here since 1947. Already some of the plants are suffering but it is difficult to tell whether they are still suffering from the short, sharp frost we had in April or lack of water.
It is a time to tend the garden when it is cool enough to work and enjoy it when it is too hot to do anything else.
Our Blue Tits and Great Tits have returned to the bird table after raising their young. They are bringing their noisy fledglings to try to encourage them to feed themselves.
Check out this short 23 second video to listen to this pushy fledgling demanding to be fed.
a french garden 
I also watch the tit fledglings on my bird table. When they are on their own they feed quite happily, but when the mother flies in they stop and beg to be fed. Just like my teenage daughter!
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I think there is a great similarity between fledgling birds and adolescents :). Amelia
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Lovely!
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Thank you. I think May is one of the most beautiful times in the garden. Amelia
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That is a very hungry tit!
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More like a bottomless pit than a hungry tit :). Amelia
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That’s too hot!
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We had a thunderstorm last night and some rain at last! We just opened the French windows and watched the rain fall on the patio. What a lovely sight. Amelia
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Lovely pictures of your poppies. I read about your very hot weather, when will we act on climate??
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Lovely poppies! And I love to watch the moms feeding the fledglings too. None here yet, but there will be. I hope.
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