Posted on January 23, 2024
In the past week or so we’ve had a fresh delivery of logs for our wood-fired stove, and we’ve had its chimney swept. So what if it was -6C outside?

Cellpic Sunday 21 January 2024
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: #cellpicsunday, Cellpic Sunday, glowing, Logs, Warm
Posted on January 14, 2024
Last week, we needed to top up our supply of logs for the woodburning stoves, so we got in touch with our friendly local farmer, J-C. As usual, we sent him an SMS and he turned up at our back door (he’s not big on technology – apart from farming equipment).
The very next day he rocked up with this delivery: two cords worth of dry logs, cut to our exacting 25cm lengths. If you’re wondering what two cords is, it’s about six cubic metres, and if you’re wondering what that equates to, it’s something comfortably north of 2,000 individual pieces, which all have to be neatly (-ish, in my case) stacked under cover.
About an hour after he dropped these off, it started to snow and the temperature was -6 Centigrade, but I made a start, and I’m still plugging away at them (I’m not as young as I used to be).

Cellpic Sunday 14 January 2024
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: #cellpicsunday, Cellpic Sunday, France, Rural
Posted on January 7, 2024
We’ve had an inordinate amount of rain here recently, so this old cast-iron cooking pot, repurposed as a garden ‘feature’, is full to the brim with water and autumn leaves.

Category: Uncategorized Tagged: #cellpicsunday, Cellpic Sunday, cooking pot, leaves, rainwater, Water
Posted on December 31, 2023
It’s not just the Sistine Chapel that boasts a fancy ceiling. This one is in the Henri Toulouse-Lautrec museum in Albi, which is housed in the former Bishops’ Palace, just a step away from the Cathedral.

Cellpic Sunday 31 December 2023
Category: Composition Tagged: #cellpicsunday, Albi, Art, Cellpic Sunday, Museum, Painting, Symmetry, Toulouse-Lautrec
Posted on December 17, 2023
A few weeks ago, my entry for Cellpic Sunday was a rather attractive view from a hotel room.
This is also a view from a (different) hotel room. Rather less prepossessing, but with a little judicious cropping and straightening in Lightroom it’s possible to produce a rather more interesting image.

Cellpic Sunday 17 December 2023
Category: Abstract Tagged: #cellpicsunday, Cellpic Sunday, Rooftiles, Rooftops, Symmetry