A French poodle waits for its owner in a village square in a Provencal village. The dog's owner is in the cafe behind.
In the background you will see a quaint stone structure. It is called a borie. They were built to house both the sheep and the shepherd in inclement weather. In the tight quarters, there is usually a very small loft where the shepherd sleeps and the animals congregate in the shelter below.
As we were walking through Bonnieux after dinner, we saw this beautiful double rainbow over the hills. It is fitting -- rainbows over Provence.
Shrubbery grows out of a stone wall surrounding an ocher house with a view.
A general store nestles against the hillside. The building supplies can be seen in front of it.
On this New Year's Day, I thought that I would post a symbol of hope -- a green vine climbing a tree. Happy New Year.
An abandoned farm house sits in the middle of a plowed field in the valley.
I snapped these forming cones in a shady evergreen glade in the Luberon Hills.
A rather nattily dressed scarecrow chases the birds away on a garden terrace.
A row of shops in Sr. Saturnin has a driving school tucked in between a home furnishing shop and a shop that sells awnings and pergola covers.
I snapped the above picture in the church yard in the village of Roussillon.
A hameau is French for hamlet. The way that many hameaus came into existence, is that a wealthy farmer would build a dwelling for his grown son and his wife. Also there would be a dwelling for the hired help. Over the generations, a mini village would arise with many dwellings. Hameaus are sought after dwellings these days, because they are usually surrounded by pastoral farm land and vines, even though the houses are close together.
This bucket of rocks was in the vineyard. Limestone rocks are spread on the ground at the base of grape vines to both reflect the light and hold the heat for the vines. This is an ancient technique that is still practiced.
On market day, the portable fish market shows up in small towns in Provence selling fresh fish probably hauled up from Marseille.
A provencale manor house or mas oftentimes had an attached chapel as this one has. The little outcropping from the building is the chapel.
