Posted on September 29, 2021
Even in the depths of the countryside (i.e just up the road in Asnieres-sur-Blour), where few tourists ever venture, the locals sometimes can’t resist dressing up in ‘archetypal’ clothes – beret and red neckerchief – and parading up and down the street in their lovingly cared-for old tractors.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Circles and Wheels
Category: Autrefois Tagged: Asnieres-sur-Blour, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, France, Rural, Tractors, Wheels
Posted on August 30, 2018
Another set of doors from the nearby village of Asnières-sur-Blour.
This may be only a small door, but it has character to spare:
The next three images are all of the same building:
I suspect that this door doesn’t get much use:
Although these definitely do:
Thursday Doors 30 August 2018
Category: Doors Tagged: Asnieres-sur-Blour, Doors, Thursday Doors
Posted on August 23, 2018
The village of Asnières-sur-Blour is yet another of those little rural communities that can be found within a fifteen-minute drive of Tranquility Base.
I was there last week, primarily to take photographs of old tractors (you can only envy me) for a project I’m working on currently. However, as so often happens, the doors proved a lot more interesting than the agricultural machinery, as we’ll see here over the next couple of weeks.
Just to confirm where we are:
Doors like these – on buildings used to accommodate farm animals – are a common local feature and similar ones have appeared here before:
Just across the road from those old things is a new house (well, the cladding at least is new) but with this older door in it:
It’s not always possible to get up close and personal with the doors you might want to capture for posterity, so finally for this week here are a couple of images snatched through a fence:
Thursday Doors 23 August 2018
Category: Doors Tagged: Asnieres-sur-Blour, Doors, Thursday Doors