The Sheep Market
Posted on May 1, 2023
Boulangerie – Terminé
Posted on April 28, 2023
This – really very good – boulangerie in the village has just closed down without notice and no indication of why. At least we still have the local superette (which used to be based in these premises – hence the ‘Viveco’ sign), where the bread was better anyway, although not quite a match when it came to patisserie.

Look up
Posted on April 28, 2023
The elaborately decorated ceiling in one of the bedrooms of the Chateau de la Mercerie.

Windcatcher
Posted on April 26, 2023
This colourful windcatcher wheel was displayed at the annual air show in nearby Blond.

Muscat’s Grand Mosque
Posted on April 19, 2023
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is to show an image of something large. It’s all relative of course, but if you notice the human figure on the lower left of this photo of the interior of the Grand Mosque in Muscat, Oman it’s pretty clear that it’s…well, Grand.

I’ve been framed
Posted on April 7, 2023
I do still have a ‘proper’ camera – it’s in the title of this blog – but nowadays it only comes out for special excursions. Smartphone cameras are now so good for normal occasions, and much more convenient than lugging around an old-school full camera kit all the time.
This is yours truly, hiding behind my iPhone 12.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Cameras and Photographers
Irresistible buds
Posted on April 6, 2023
A World Of pink
Posted on April 5, 2023
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is certainly a broad one: ‘found in nature’. It’s almost harder to find something that isn’t.

All-Day Ovine Buffet
Posted on April 2, 2023
The commune in which we live consists mostly of agricultural land, principally for pasture and mainly for sheep. This particular field is adjacent to the village recycling point.

Cloudscape over Anstruther
Posted on March 31, 2023
The monochrome treatment certainly adds a lot of drama to this cloud formation, seen over the Scottish fishing village of Anstruther (pronounced ‘Anster’)







