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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.
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Showing posts with label ochre. Show all posts
Charming Shuttered Window with Window Boxes
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.
Spray of Purple Flowers
I was walking the streets of Roussillon, the ocher town, and I spotted this spray of purple flowers. They were growing against a stone building mortared with ocher. The juxtaposition of the flowers and the ocher was stunning.
Vines Against and Ocher Cliff
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Two symbols of Provence are vineyards and ocher. This pic combines them both. A vineyard in the foreground is profiled against an ocher cliff in the background.
The Road To Gordes
This photo was snapped in the ocher village of Rousillon. You can see the ocher deposits behind the sign. Gordes is one of the ten most beautiful towns in France. When Francois Mitterand was president of France, he kept his mistress in Gordes -- a holiday town. Click on the Gordes tag below to see a view of Gordes that I took.
Ocher Deposits
This is another shot of red and yellow ocher (or ochre) deposits in Provence near Rousillon. This is interesting in the fact that you can see a yellow band through the red. These colours are woven in the life of Provence and you can see them on buildings, in art, in pottery, paint, and of course in nature.
Hiking the Colorado of Provence
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The Colorado is the ochre deposits of Provence. See the blog entry below for a better description. The ocher quarries are being preserved as a historic treasure, and the landscape is stunning. Here some hikers are exploring the Colorado.
Ochre in Provence
Le Colorado Provençal is famous for the rich deposits of ochre pigments found in the clay near the villages of Rustrel and Roussillon. The large quarries were mined from the end of the eighteenth century until 1930. Thousands of people found work in the quarries and factories. Nowadays the mining of ochre is prohibited here, in order to protect the sites from degradation or even complete destruction.
Village House with Artistic Flair
An ocher village house displays an artistic flair with a bird motif.
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.
Post Office Street
I love the funky road signs of Provence. This village street, is Post Office Street. The sign is done in ocher.
Ochre Doorway of Provence
This is a continuing series of doorways of Provence. The one pictured above is on an ochre village house.
Village Square
Notice the church against the other buildings in the village square in Roussillon, the ochre village
Pottery of Provence
The colors of Provence are reflected in the buildings and the pottery, and indeed life. These Provecale pieces of pottery reflect the blue sky, the ochre, the red poppies and the terracotta ground. The colour of the soil has gotten in their blood (or is it vice versa).
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.
Ochre Art
The colours of ochre permeates life in Provence. You see it in the buildings, in the fabrics, in the hills and fields, and you see it in the art. The colour of ochre is the colour of life in Provence.Ochre Village Bell Tower
Roussillon is the ochre village. There are large deposits of ochre and most of the town is coloured in ochre. This is the bell tower of Roussillon as seen from a lower tier of the village.
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