Hiking in Provence is fantastic in January, the temperatures are great. The walk around Le Beaucet and Saint Gens offers a great diversity...

Towering above the ermitage of Saint Gens , an amazing rock called the mushroom monolith (mushroom is "champignon" in French). F...

Colourful macarons for sale at "Le monde du macaron" at  13 rue rouge, one of Avignon's pedestrian streets. From what people...

Flamants roses de Camargue, suite . Le parc ornithologique du Pont de Gau est un paradis pour photographes animaliers : les flamants roses s...

  Regardez ici la vidéo que  j'ai prise samedi dernier en Camargue :   La charge des flamants roses . C'est assez spectaculaire...

One short black, one latte, or what's left of them. Sugar cube wrappings. Long winter shadows. A very nice moment. Un petit noir, un...

Continued from this post . After I took my first set of photos the sky turned so dark that I considered turning back and going home but i...

Pour Nine qui signe toujours "ta plus proche voisine" et qui me tarabuste depuis des mois pour que je reprenne mon blog, une ph...

Still life with sleeping cat. Photo taken last summer in my sister's garden. After we had a mid-afternoon glass of fruit juice her cat...

To my dear blogging friends who've been hoping for a new post here for many months, the least I could do was post a greeting card. Her...

Ici c'est le jardin de mon enfance, de mes dimanches et de mes vacances, celui de mes grands-parents qui est devenu celui de ma mère. ...

La Peyrière, Beaumes-de-Venise Snow over La Peyrière, a delightful property for rent in Provence in the summer. Above, a nature reserve...

 Et il neigea...

 There's snow forecast for tonight - will we wake up to a white garden? I'd love that. I'm not working tomorrow so I'd hav...

The first day of each month is Theme Day for the City Daily Photo community. What would I miss if I left Avignon? Its bridge of course, ...

Winter view over the last two arches of the pont d'Avignon. Sky or water? They melt into each other. Go see more skies at Skywatch Fr...

Du fait des obsèques de ma mère je me trouvais à Paris le 11 janvier 2015. Il était évident pour moi d'aller participer à la marc...

I'm sorry I have a problem getting back to my blog. I can't bring myself to post a run-of-the-mill photo of the region: nothing s...

Match tragique à Charlie-rit-des-églises : Liberté 0 -, Barbarie 12. J'étais déjà en deuil - je le suis doublement. I was already i...

Sorry, no cheerful New Year wishes here. To me, 2015 will be the year that my mother will not see. Hard for me to rejoice. There will be t...

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...