I have the good fortune to live near two pick your own farms that grow vegetables, fruit and more importantly for me… flowers. The Ferme de Gally opened in April and the first flowers to bloom are the tulips. I love tulips, their varied and colourful flowers...
When I was a teenager, I secretly wanted to be an artist, like my mother, who went to art school in her forties. But I was not ready then, I did not have her artistic flair, so I studied languages and art history instead. My life long interest in art, both classic and...
Winter in my little corner of France, near Paris, is generally wet, grey and desperately uninspiring. It’s a time for photographing still life images inside and doing digital housekeeping, by which I mean trying to tidy the mess my photo files inevitably get...
These photos were taken with my Nikon D5200 on three consecutive mornings from Feb 6th to 8th, between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m., in the fields around my village, in the greater Paris area or Ile De France. I document my morning walk everyday on my Instagram account. I...
The BIG news here in the Paris area this week is that it has snowed and not just a little. On Tuesday we had 19 cm on the garden table in our courtyard. This much snow is quite rare here, we haven’t had ‘proper’ snow since 2013 and not so machine...
On our recent weekend in the Baie de Somme area, we were staying at St. Valéry sur Somme and this was the view from our hotel. The Baie de Somme (Bay of the Somme or Somme Bay) is a large estuary in the Picardie region of France. The bay drains six rivers into...
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