Beaumes-de-Venise In the hills near my home, an early morning walk to catch the hazy light of a warming sun gulping down the fog. Dans l...

The sweet muscat wine that Beaumes-de-Venise is renown for comes from hand-picked grapes. The grape harvest started on September 5th and ...

Going back in time, autumn in the vineyards along the road to Vacqueyras. I love this soft light and these golden colours. Retour en arr...

Notre Dame d'Aubune, Beaumes de Venise From the almost naked vineyards emerges the now familiar church spike of the little chapel of No...

Beaumes-de-Venise November: in the local vineyards, small bunches of grapes which escaped the harvest shrivel under the first frosts. N...

Beaumes-de-Venise Sometimes thick fog eats up the vineyards. Beyond this gray wall there's a sharply rising hill and a lovely 12th cen...

Last Sunday we sat down to a picnic lunch at the top of the village of Joucas. Admiring the view I thought to myself I could live there. O...

Beaumes-de-Venise Heavy rains yesterday over the vineyards near our home. Fortes pluies hier sur les vignes près de chez nous.

Entre Villars et Gargas 'Cabanons' like this are typical of the region and were used to store tools around vineyards. Most are aban...

Ma chère chapelle de N.D. d'Aubune sous le ciel noir de lundi matin. My dear chapel of N.D. d'Aubune under last Monday's blac...

Ce matin, on annonçait l'arrivée du sixième épisode cévenol en deux mois. Les Cévennes, c'est par là, vers l'ouest. Quand j...

Help! The weather has been so mild for the past several weeks that my little cherry tree, too young to know better, was tricked into belie...

In the plains between Sarrians and Beaumes-de-Venise at sunrise. This blog participates in Skywatch Friday , a community of bloggers who ...

Gigondas, Vaucluse A few more photos of our hike last Saturday. Above, the views from the hilltop village of Gigondas to the vast plains bel...

Bords du Rhône, ile de la Barthelasse. By the water's edge, waiting for a boat passage across the Rhône. In France it is no longer unusu...

Ile de la Barthelasse, bords du Rhône en face du pont d'Avignon. Last Sunday you could have thought it was summer. It's so hard to i...

Autumn is here. L'automne est là.