… still frosty in the shade
Category: France
Hiking trails
2000 feet – Col d’Uglas – Cévennes foothills
Ski season coming up soon
No fear – skiing towards the edge.
Winter scene / Scène d’hiver
The snow-topped hills are in the Cévennes range. Picture taken from a hillside about 40 km east of the ridge. Les Cévennes enneigées. Image prise depuis un point de vue à 40 km à l’est des crêtes.
More landscapes
Towers of Uzés in the foreground and Mont Ventoux on the horizon. Ventoux is about 2000m high and about 80 km away from the camera in this shot. Unusually good visibility in this case.
Hiking on a frosty morning
December-Cèze river valley-Village of Cornillon. Freezing fog and minus 4 degrees C, but all the hikers are ready to go.
Montaigu Landscapes
Month : November. Weather : sunny. Hiking around some local villages gave a chance to take these 2 pictures. Randonnée en novembre ; météo : ensoleillée. Paysages sous le ciel méditerranéen.
Barbegal
A ruined aqueduct in harsh autumn light. This aqueduct carried water to the flour mill at Barbegal. The mill (now ruined) is thought to have had the capacity to feed the entire roman city of Arles. Aqueduc en ruine, sous la lumière crue de l’automne méditerranéenne. Cet aqueduc acheminant l’eau au moulin (egalement ruiné) de…
Les Concluses
Near Lussan in the Gard department of France, there is a limestone plateau about 15 sq km in size. Rivers flow off the plateau through ravines and sometimes through underground channels. One of these ravines is called the Concluses. During most of the year it is impossible to take the picture below due to water flowing through…
St Croix de Caderle
The view from the Ste Croix de Caderle temple courtyard. Foreground is the “rocher de Tinaou”. Further in the distance, the cliffs of Generargues.
St Croix de Caderle
A small mountain village called Ste Croix de Caderle : In this village they have just renovated an old church, now converted to a protestant temple. The temple is on the edge of a plateau at about 1700 feet in the local mountains. According to the notices in the temple, the site has been in use…
