Some Christmases are more joyful than others. Our dear mother drew her last breath on December 23rd at 7:00 pm. She had seen her four daug...

De retour en Provence je retrouve le soleil, tellement absent à Paris. Mais si le ciel est bleu, l'esprit est loin d'être festif....

Sur la route. Encore une mes recherches sur le flou de pluie.  Oui il y avait une étoile dans le pare-brise. Peut-être mène-t-elle à Beth...

Paris En face de la gare de Lyon, la brasserie l'Européen sous la pluie. Je rends grâce à l'électricité qui tourne en magie une so...

Never leave your luggage unattended in a train station, it could be destroyed by an antiterrorist squad. Of course if you keep it in sight...

Today Friday 12th of December will see the return to the church of Beaumes-de-Venise of a spectacular 17th century painting which had be...

Portrait session at my painting class in Carpentras last Monday. Above, my work at an early stage during one of the sitter's breaks. B...

Un instant suspendu dans la nuit. A moment in time stolen from the night.

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

Pas grand-chose. Juste quelques baies émergeant de la brume matinale... Nothing much. Just a bunch of berries emerging from the morning mi...

Today my heart is in Paris where my mother lives.I took this photo last month on an earlier visit to her. She's not well and my tho...

Hike around the hilltop village of Le Barroux yesterday morning. The sky speaks for itself. This blog participates in Skywatch Friday  : ...

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...

Avignon, place de l'horloge   Grand celebration of this year's new wine last Thursday in Avignon. At 6:00 pm all local winemaker...

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...

I hadn't taken pictures of the pont d'Avignon in ages. On Sunday, the water levels weres high and the afternoon light spectacular....

Avignon, le pont St Bénézet After the flood, the big clean up. On Saturday afternoon the Rhone reached a peak level of 5.30 meters which...

Rue des teinturiers, Avignon    La mort de Rémi Fraisse lors d'un affrontement musclé entre forces de l'ordre et manifestants éc...

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...

Rue du Vice Légat, rue Grivolas, Avignon  As President François Hollande concludes the first half of his 5-year mandate, France's poor...

Rue de la bonneterie / Rue de la masse, Avignon Arbeit macht frei - Le travail libère-t-il ?   Posons la question, nous dit-on. Mais le ...

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...

Rue des trois faucons, Avignon How times change: you rarely see Catholic nuns in the streets  here these days  but you see more and more ...

Rue de la République, Avignon - samedi/Saturday Les chaussures rouges sont à la mode, il me semble. Vous en avez dans votre garde-robe ? . ...

Rue Frédéric Mistral, Avignon Juste en face de l'école primaire de la rue Frédéric Mistral, un autocollant signé Hugo a été collé sur ...