We’d dried off a bit, had our cafè to warm us, and were off exploring. Flying under the radar clouds, we absorbed quite a lot of beauty before stopping for lunch. As we drove, the clouds began to lift, allowing us better views of this stunning area covered with wildflowers.
Flying below the fog but not below the rain, the damp chill eventually found its way into our bones. That meant time for a hot drink, but it was mid-morning Wednesday and the few places we saw were closed. Although Le Paquis des Hautes Fees didn’t appear to be open, it was and we went in, thankful to get out of the wind and cold. The view looked decidedly better from inside. 🙂
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Posted: July 23, 2017 in Animals, Silent Sunday
Tags: animals, chickens, cock 'o the walk, France, iPhoneography, roosters, Silent Sunday, travel
We’ve had a lot of fun in the forests of the Vosges. But not far away, there are mountains, the highest in this part of France. Last year, we enjoyed the Grand Ballon. That’s not a mis-typing of Balloon. The name means “Great (round-topped) mountain”, “ballon” meaning a mountain with a round top. This year, we were in a different part of the mountain range. The weather wasn’t the best, but we were prepared.
Many villages in France have wonderful floral decorations and there’s even a designation for those with the most attractive displays. But sometimes you find beautiful flowers tucked into corners or off to the side. I saw these in Mélisey as we walked back to our parking spot after yet another wonderful lunch at Chez Mimi. What a glorious sight!
If you’d like to read more about the towns awarded the Ville Fleurie designation, go to France This Way by clicking here. The author says:
The ‘towns and villages in bloom’ award (ville fleurie) is given to French places that make a special effort to create a pleasant natural environment for both residents and visitors by focussing on plants, flowers and open areas within the town.
Even if a town doesn’t have this designation, you’ll find plenty of flowers and arrangements in many places and of course, you can always keep checking on my blog. 🙂
Believe it or not, there are still doors in Plombieres that I haven’t photographed or shared. 🙂 So today I’m taking a three-door bite out of that batch and sharing a trio of doors-heretofore-never-featured-on-Thursday-Doors doors. Doorn-it! How did that happen? But as Dan loves to hear, no worries, mate! They are now no longer door-mant, but join the ranks of featured-on-Thursday-Doors doors.
But you can find even more splen-doors over at the home of our a-door-able leader from Montreal, Norm. Click on the blue link critter to get your door en-door-phins raging. Don’t be a door-k! Put on your fe-door-a and come visit the corri-doors of the world with us.
What? Wednesday again? I’m two and a half weeks into Tour de France watching and exhausted having just watched today’s mountain stage. What will I do with my morning’s after Sunday’s last stage? Ahh, well, on to today’s challenge, the Weekly Photo Challenge. Finding an apt photo can be as challenging as winning a Tour stage (well, maybe not) and today I’m searching for one that meets the challenge of “Unusual” posed to us by an excellent photographer, Lignum Draco.
I was blessed to be able to spend just a very, very short time in Yosemite in March. During that stay, I had this unusual view of the park. I also had an unusually hard time trying to get this photo ready to upload. 🙂
