Vision through the window of the high speed TGV train from Avignon to Paris. Take the time to discover the sleepy faces among the naked t...

A bit of post processing for this little corner of wilderness in an unkept vineyard not far from home is part of winter entertainment when...

Avignon train station - the old Avignon Centre station I mean, not  the TGV station. This one is located right outside the city walls: a bri...

To those of you who celebrate Christmas, I wish a very happy time. May the spirit of love also spill onto those who don't celebrate it...

Pluie sur la route (novembre 2013) / Rain on the road (November 2013) Wet blurs are of my favorite themes, as my faithful readers know. ...

Notre Dame d'Aubune, our local 11th century chapel, in a glorious afternoon light. Local olives are green but ripe. We've just fin...

Foggy morning, sunrise. Taken from home last week. Matin brumeux, lever de soleil. Pris devant la maison la semaine dernière.

La petite chapelle de Notre Dame d'Aubune au lever du jour dans la brume. Beaucoup d'agriculteurs font des feux à cette saison...

Frozen foliage mess seized in a hedge located at the far end of a vineyard not far from home. Fouillis de feuillage glacé saisi dans une ...

 Burning leaves last Sunday. The conditions were safe conditions: no wind, water nearby, constant supervision. A fun activity for a teenag...

Ma dernière nature morte : poires dans un bol en porcelaine (peinture à l'huile sur papier toilé) My latest still life: pears in ...

Our olive grove at sunset - photo taken this week at the end of a busy day picking olives. Notre champ d'oliviers à la fin du jour -...

View of Mount Ventoux from Crillon-le-Brave, a tiny Provencal village which hosts a pretty spectacular five-star hotel . From there you ca...

Traversée d'un petit bois sur la route entre Modène et Caromb, novembre 2013. On the country road between Modène and Caromb, November...

Inside the chateau de Tarascon (a mighty medieval castle alongside the Rhone river some 30 kms south of Avignon), a fearless young knight ...

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...