Spring - Printemps - Frühling 2010
By Hans-Josef Jeanrond on Saturday 22 May 2010, 19:10 - Provence / Var - Permalink
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This year, it seemed that spring would never come. And perhaps it didn't, since
it feels like we have jumped right into summer at this long Pentecost week-end.
We moved without transition from opening all curtains in our veranda to get
every sun ray heating up the house, to closing them in order to keep out the
heat. It seems like yesterday that my hands went numb in an attempt to clean
the swimming pool, and yesterday my wife took her first plunge at 22° C.
The last night frost was in the early days of May!
The landscape around us has changed dramatically in a very short time span,
as some of these images show. The efforts of the vine are enormous. In about
three months, the grapes will already be harvested. The climate in Provence is
harsh on plants.
10 days after the image above, on the same spot
Another 18 days later
28 April, and the same spot
on 16 May
Two more images around Cuers, about 20 km from Collobrières.
Despite the short distance, vegetation is already further developed in this
valley, open to the southern winds from the sea.