Beaucoup d'entre vous savent que depuis un an j'ai repris la peinture à l'huile. J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer que ...

  Théatre Au Bout Là-Bas Quelques photos d'un spectacle que j'ai vu jeudi soir au théatre : " Fourbi la chambre ", un t...

Notre Dame d'Aubune, Beaumes-de-Venise The recipe is simple if you have the right ingredients. Take a 12th century Roman chapel ...

Bédoin Pour les journées du patrimoine ce week-end, on pouvait par exemple aller à Bédoin et suivre une très intéressante visite guidé...

Rhône is the name of the ship but are we in Avignon? Perhaps the flag can give you a clue. Photo taken ten days ago on a lovely weekend. ...

Place Pie, devant les bureaux de la police municipale. La police ne fait rien, tout va bien. C'est juste un bel après-midi ensoleillé....

Ail et oignons, nature morte au panier. J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer que pendant tout le mois d'octobre j'exposerai...

When early morning the sky cleared up after a rainy night. Quand au matin le ciel s'est ouvert après une nuit de pluie.

Sunrise over Mount Ventoux, 7:45. If you enlarge the photo (click on it) you might be able to spot  the church spike of Beaumes-de-Venise ...

Beaumes-de-Venise Ce matin, 7h42, lever de soleil sur les vignes. This morning, 7:42, sunrise over the vineyards.

With September comes the return of my Monday painting series. Last time I showed purple artichokes, it was on a market in August 2009 he...

Are Avignon's streets dangerous? No. These two young males were just playing pretend. Les rues d'Avignon sont-elles mal famées...

End of summer. The bees are helping themselves on the last sunflowers in bloom. Fin d'été. Les abeilles se servent sur les dernières ...

Gare d'Avignon TGV Yesterday I drove my son to the Avignon TGV station where he boarded the train to Paris; from there he'll fly to...

La Disparition des Lucioles, Prison Sainte Anne, Avignon When I said in an earlier post that Avignon's  Sainte Anne prison was in ...

Pretty surroundings for a letterbox, don't you think? This letterbox is now the standard shape, size and height set in France. 15...

Sommets alignés depuis une terrasse de café devant la cathédrale Saint-Siffrein à Carpentras. Ce blog participe à Skywatch Friday , une c...

Sarrians, route de Monteux. I drive past this twisted metal gate every working day -  I keep wondering how it got so badly damaged. I...

Lunch plate at Coté Vignes , a pleasant restaurant set among the vineyards just outside Beaumes-de-Venise on the road to Lafare. Une bel...

Sunflowers on the road to Sarrians. I pulled up by the side of the road and snapped. This blog participates in Skywatch Friday , a commun...

Bord de route à Sarrans I wonder what the people driving by thought of me when they saw me crouching in the ditch along the road - perhaps ...

Lavender field near the village of Sault last weekend, an exercise in depth of field. Most of the lavender had been harvested but a few co...

"Je suis Dieu La Meilleure !", extrait d'un spectacle de rue du festival Font'Arts de Pernes-les-Fontaines le week-end ...

 Marché gare, Carpentras At the flea market in Carpentras last Sunday I focused on the visitors rather than on the items for sale. It wa...

On the wonderful no-electricity cycle-activated merry-go-round at the Pernes street art festival today, some kids had the time of their li...

Dining out in the small village of Seguret, half an hour north of Avignon. Dîner en terrasse dans le petit village classé de Séguret, à u...

Painted a few days ago, based on a bunch of wild flowers I picked from the side of the road beneath our house. Peint la semaine dernière...

We had a string of storms last night, which reminds me of a particularly spectacular one we had in Avignon on July 7th : lightning struck ...

Rue des Lices, Avignon Quand le mistral joue avec les affiches du festival... When the Mistral plays with a string of  Avignon Theatre...

Théatre Notre Dame, rue du Collège d'Annecy, Avignon   One of the Festival's unexpected surprises was this Lone Sock Memorial. T...