Cerises coeur de pigeon - rares et chères, les cerises cette année, par chez nous en tout cas. Avec le printemps froid que nous avons eu, ...

Cat in the garden - not my cat, not my garden, but a delightful moment. We're at the Pre Curieux , a house that was built by my ances...

Dans notre colline, c'est l'époque où les immortelles (helichrysum stoechas) sont en fleur. C'est une merveille. Ces plantes o...

Une bouteille et deux verres, instant de bonheur au jardin des Doms, du côté des escaliers Ste Anne. Two glasses and a bottle of wine, a ...

Just a minute later, view towards Avignon as the TGV high speed train passes on the bridge over the Rhone river. A peine une minute plus t...

This the first glimpse you catch of Avignon when you arrive from Paris on board the TGV high-speed train. When you see this view, Popes...

Still life? At the moment my life is everything but still but  I occasionally manage to catch a quiet moment under the kitchen lamp. N...

This isn't Avignon I have to admit. Can my faithful reader tell where these two pictures were taken last weekend? The link between the...

 The Mas de la Pyramide in Saint Rémy de Provence where we had lunch the other day isn't only an amazing place to eat, it's also...

 Lunch at the farm for 26 at the Mas de la Pyramide in Saint Rémy de Provence - the table is set under a cliff providing shade and protect...

The archeological site of Glanum was definetely worth more than one post . Here it is seen from the hills, with the church and village ...

Today's theme for the June 1st City Daily Photo bloggers' meme is 'the beauty of decay'. Avignon has no shortage of dist...

I bought local tomatoes at the market in the nearby village of Aubignan last Saturday. One was oddly shaped. This isn't a photoshop im...

The Pont d'Avignon seen from the Mireio cruise ship on Sunday 12th May 2013. If there appears to be hardly anyone on board, it's b...

Lunch aboard the Mireio for my mother's 80th birthday : foie gras as an entree, then a wonderful beef filet medallion as a main accomp...

After a very wet day comes a gorgeous sunset. Up the hill above Beaumes-de-Venise, water keeps seeping from the rock face long after the r...

Yes I know: my blog posts have been all about the weather lately but I guess it's a natural change from living in town. In Avignon my ...

And we thought the big rains were behind us. How foolish. We've had solid downpours since Tuesday night and more are forecast until Su...

Sailing up the Rhone from Arles you reach a point where Avignon's Popes' Palaces appears neatly framed in between the arches of th...

Celebrating 4x20 years of love - my mother's 80th - we took advantage of the sidewalk chalk drawing festival in the small village o...

I discovered recently that in season paragliders take off from up the hill behind our house and land in an empty field in the plain below....

Despite the downpour last Saturday this fording on a narrrow country road near Beaumes-de-Venise was still passable when we went through. ...

Another view of Saturday afternoon's dramatic sky change from black to blue in less than an hour. This post is linked to Skywatch Fri...

Late afternoon on Saturday a sort of epiphany happened: after two full days of being swamped by pouring rain we suddenly saw the sun appea...

...come again another day! This is the view we had from home on Saturday... and on Sunday. What a rotten weekend we've had - rained a...

 Dentelles de Montmirail Hike in the Dentelles de Montmirail range last weekend. After two days of glorious weather a cold wind had picked...

Three stickers on a drainpipe : - Buster Adams: You and 211 people like this  (I've checked: it appears Buster Adams is a French phot...

Sudden downpour in our driveway yesterday afternoon. Five minutes, no more. Moments later the cloud had gone, leaving sunshine and a rainb...

  2 place de l'Horloge - Avignon Sales clerk cleaning the glass door of the Hermès shop. Pretty classy to have the famous H tatooed a...

Two views from home on a day quite typical of the type of weather we've had lately: swift moves from rain to shine. The roofs to the l...