Frozen vine leaves in a vineyard near our home - photo taken yesterday morning. Feuilles de vignes saisies par la gelée blanche dans un ch...

Photo 28 Nov. 2013 Along the canal of Carpentras, emptied for winter cleaning and maintenance. No need for irrigation this time of year ...

On a cold morning, long waves of fog come hugging the plains, moving in a very slow and eerie way. Par un matin froid, de longues vagues ...

 Le clocher de Caromb au coucher du soleil (Caromb est un village à quelques kilomètres de chez moi). Caromb's bell tower...

Well, that's it : I'm putting this blog to sleep. Whether I'll take up posting again remains unclear at this stage but for no...

Le festival a commencé ! Il s'est ouverte avec une grande parade dimanche. The Avignon festival of performing arts is on again. It op...

Le dimanche 29 juin, une visite guidée dans la colline de Beaumes-de-Venise emmenait les visiteurs à la rencontre de l'histoire des ta...

A fantastic exercise in tongue pulling is on display every day from 4 to 8 pm from 2-26 July 2013 in Avignon, 23 place des Carmes. As you ...

This little fella wasn't one bit shy. It hugged A.'s leg for a long while before A. decided to catch it in his hands to examine it...

The City Daily Photo theme for July 2013 is 'facade'. Most of Avignon is fairly flat but this particular block of houses is s...

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...