Here's an old favorite from 2004 (before I started blogging). I posted it here in 2006 during the blog's first year. It's taken ...

So this will be the last of the photos that I took back at the end of June when we visited friends in Varennes-sur-Fouzon. Those friends wil...

Here's another photo from Varennes-sur-Fouzon. It was just over two weeks ago now that we were there. I took these pictures while taking...

I walked through a very pretty neighborhood that morning in Varennes-sur-Fouzon. We were having rain showers off and on the previous night a...

Still in Varennes-sur-Fouzon, this is a view of town from just outside to the north. The fields of grain give way to buildings with the chur...

I'll bet this place was full on Friday night. Full of people watching France lose to Germany in the World Cup quarter final. Lots of dej...

No, not America. France. The wheat and other farmed grasses around us are looking to be very close to harvest time. In fact, I have seen hay...

Like most French towns, the center of Varennes-sur-Fouzon is clustered around a church, a vestige of the power of the Pope and the Roman Cat...

So here we are, deep into the evening on Saturday. It must have been near ten o'clock, when it starts to get dark this time of year. The...

Not far from the château at Valençay is the small town of Varennes-sur-Fouzon. It's not a place we knew before we met L. & J. from ...

How about a little scene from Provence on a sunny Saturday morning? The village is Séguret in the Vaucluse. Not a great photo, but I wanted...

The name of this Rhône Valley town means Pope's Newcastle in English. It's within sight of Avignon, seat of the popes after their e...

Gordes is a very popular stop on the tourist circuit in Provence. It's the quintessential hilltop town (one of hundreds of quintessenti...

Just thought I'd throw a second one in, since I have a slide of it. It's not as nice a photo as the first one was, but it illustrat...

I guess you'd call them bell towers, but I'm not sure. I don't know what they're called in French, either (do you know?). ...

I took these pictures in 2001 when we rented a house in Cavaillon, near the Rhône and the Luberon mountain. We were there in September and ...

Swans ply the waters of the Yonne River at Auxerre (2001).

This tiny town on the Lot River is very close to the place we rented when we stayed there in 1995. It's amazing, if not a little boring...

The second time we visited Cahors was in 1995 (the first was in 1989). This time we found our way up to an overlook on a bluff across the r...

In 1995, Ken and I spent a couple of weeks in the Lot Valley in southwestern France. Le Lot is a river roughly parallel to, and south of, t...