Posted on January 5, 2017
Over the past year or so I’ve posted a number of pictures of doors that are to be found in Tranquility Base, my working title for the little hamlet we live in. Thus you’ve seen Emily’s Henhouse and Bernard’s Barn, amongst others.
Now, I certainly don’t want to give the impression that everything in Tranquility Base is falling down, but here are a few more very local doors, beginning with front and side view of what may once have been a shed that belongs to our nearest neighbour:


Fortunately, this barn is in rather better condition:

Although it’s a bit dodgier round the back:

This one doesn’t see much traffic either:

Nor do these doors, which many years ago would have served to keep the pigs shut in:

Thursday Doors 5 January 2017
Category: Doors Tagged: Doors, France, Rural, Thursday Doors, Tranquility Base, tumbledown
Posted on October 24, 2016
Week 12 of the 52 Weeks Photo Challenge hosted by The Girl That Dreams Awake has the topic of ‘Street’.
The genre of ‘street photography’ isn’t really my thing. However, this is probably my favourite street view: the road that runs through our hamlet of ‘Tranquility Base’. In the rush hour.

(Confession time: I’ve used this image before, in a post on my other site. Although, to judge from the stats, you won’t have seen it.)
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 12 – Street
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: 52 Weeks, 52Weeks, Street, Street Photography, street scene, Tranquility Base
Posted on October 15, 2016
It really can’t get much more local for me than this, because I took this photograph through my own front window.
That’s my neighbour Albert, keeping a watchful eye on one of his last few ewes as she takes her lamb from the barn over to the pasture, which is on the other side of the road that you can see at the top of the picture.
Sad to say, Albert died earlier this year. You can just see his faithful dog, Arielle, behind him. That’s about as far apart as they ever were: Arielle pined away and died about two weeks after Albert.

Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: France, Haute Vienne, Lambs, Local, Neighbours, Rural, Sheep, Tranquility Base, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge
Posted on November 6, 2014
‘When we bought Brokedown Palace almost ten years ago, we were also fortunate enough to acquire a few acres of attached agricultural land. This picture is of the field directly behind the house.
Just to be able to look out on a sunny day at this tranquil, unspoiled scene, with no sound but the birds, certainly counts as `bliss’ as far as I’m concerned.
Category: Photography 101 Tagged: Bliss, photo101, Photography 101, Rural, Tranquility Base