Charming Shuttered Window with Window Boxes

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This ocher stucco house has charming shutters and window boxes.  Even if you live in a house on street with no visible dirt, you still have flowers.

Vines And Forsythia Through The Window

Yesterday, I showed forsythia blossoms in detail close up.  When you are in the farm building looking out of a rustic window, you will see the thick grape vines and the forsythia bush growing near the rock wall.  A beautiful view through the window.

Flower Pot in the Window

This is quite a common sight -- flower pots in the window of most houses, even though there is no room for a garden.  Flowers are a part of life in Provence.

Window Flowers

The bars on this window are not traditional Provencal, but what is traditional, is that there are flowers almost everywhere in this special part of France.

Plants in a Rustic Quaint Window

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I love the rustic shutters and the plants in the window.  They crammed more potted flowers by suspending them on the bars.  

The fancy while filigree on the shuttered blue windows caught my eye. The robin egg blue contrasts with the yellow ocher and you see a small evergreen tree peeking out near the window to the right.

A Pair of Windows

One thing that I love about Provence, is how even something as simple as a window is much more than a window.

Here we have a pair of them. The smaller one has a plant in the sill, and a planter attached to the building below it. The big window has lovely lace curtains, and the utilitarian clothes line under it, holding a pair of socks and a dish towel.

Window, Shutters and Planters on Ochre

Even the slightest little ledge or window sill has planters with flowers to cheer up the ocher walls of this village house.

French Windows

Nothing is more elegant than a French window. This one is a classic.

Medieval Security

This image detail was fascinating for me for a few reasons. The first is why would the window be so small. It must have been a special purpose hole in the wall for something when the building was built a few hundred years ago.

The security grating is ingenious. It is old beyond a doubt. It is blacksmith wrought iron that has been cleverly cut to make it such that the space to put one's hand through is occluded.

The third thing is that the building's mortar is made from ochre, which gives it colour. This pic was snapped in Rousillon.

Geranium Window

The amazing thing about Provence, is how people use flowers to add colour to a drab window, doorway or balcony.

Here a pot of geraniums colour an ancient window sill.