Our Southern French countryside is dotted with these ancient stone windmill ruins. There must be hundreds but I’ve seen only a couple that have been restored. The backdrop being our black mountains, which help to protect our Mediterranean coastal plains from the worst excesses of the northern European winter cold.The field contains freshly planted vines, […]
Dec 17, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Antique Liaisons, Caramel Cream, Chlorophyll, coastal, flowers, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, grunge, heady perfume, hilltop, Labyrinth, landscape, Languedoc, lost void, Mediterranean, moody, mountains, Ordinance Map, Paul Grand, photoshop, Raw Linen, ruined windmill, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, vacation, viners, vineyard | 1 Comment »
Walking back from our local ‘Park of the Poets’ in Central Beziers,I came across this dark and narrow bow terrace.The lowering sun reflecting off the opposite houses stucco in an interesting way, lighting the upper apartment windows.You’ll see I’ve removed a mass of visual pollution from the skyline, aerials are the one thing I almost […]
Nov 27, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: angst, apartments, buildings, Caramel Cream, contained, crowding, curve, Dangerous Liaisons, enclosed, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, golden, hour, lonely, Mediterranean, moody, Orient Express, Paul Grand, Pompeii Stucco, prison, Raw Linen, reflected light, sad, sky, solitude, surreal, trapped, vacation, vertigo, windows | 2 Comments »
