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 18, 2021
A dramatic sunrise on a misty November morning in the French countryside.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Here Comes The Sun
Category: Landscape Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Dawn, France, Here Comes The Sun, mist, Rural, Sunrise
Posted on July 16, 2021
Who knows where this farm track leads?

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Outdoor paths
Category: Black & White, Landscape Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, farm tracks, France, Rural, tracks
Posted on June 24, 2021
Cee’s Midweek Challenge this week requires us to show something with an ‘I’ in its name or, indeed, an eye.
This is an unusual perspective on the multi-storey stairwell of a small hotel in Paris. Fortunately there’s also a lift (or elevator, if you must).

Category: Composition Tagged: Architecture, CMMC, France, Staircase, stairwell
Posted on February 19, 2021
Even with all the latest technology and machinery available to them, farmers’ work is hard. It’s difficult to imagine how tough it must have been when everything had to be done by hand with simple toools like these.

Category: Autrefois Tagged: CMMC, Farming implements, France, Garden tools, Rural, Tools
Posted on October 16, 2020
Our humble abode (aka ‘Brokedown Palace’).

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Outside Home
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Brokedown Palace, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Exterior, France, Home, Rural
Posted on July 12, 2020
This week, the challenge is to post a picture that conveys ‘your culture’.
Which begs the question, what is my culture? As an English (although I prefer to be Scouse, which is most definitely not the same thing) expatriate living very happily in rural France, the answer is by no means clear-cut.
However, I think this image of a brightly painted old-fashioned cart on display outside the Mairie gives a decent idea of my current cultural circumstances.

52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 28 Your Culture
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: 52 Week Smartphone Challenge, 52WeekSmartphoneChallenge, cart, Culture, France, Mezieres-sur-Issoire, Rural
Posted on May 23, 2020
“What does serenity mean to you?’ is the question posed for the 21st instalment of the 52 Week Smartphone Challenge.
I always find this view very tranquil and calming (not that I often need to calm down). It’s what I see when I look over the wall of our back garden. The two fields were bought with the house, so for a few brief minutes I am master of all I survey.

52WeekSmartphoneChallenge: 21 Serenity
Category: Landscape Tagged: 52 Week Smartphone Challenge, 52WeekSmartphoneChallenge, France, Landscape, Rural, Serenity
Posted on March 25, 2020
A foggy, frozen morning on the back road to La Motte.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge 24 March 2020
Category: Landscape Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Fog, France, Freezing Fog, Landscape, Rural, Winter
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