Tag - Vignoble du Var
Saturday 22 May 2010
Spring - Printemps - Frühling 2010
By Hans-Josef Jeanrond on Saturday 22 May 2010, 19:10 - Provence / Var
Spring at last!
Printemps enfin !
Frühling, endlich!
Monday 9 March 2009
Printemps enfin - Spring at Last - Endlich Frühling
By Hans-Josef Jeanrond on Monday 9 March 2009, 15:20
Six weeks after the mimosas flowering in Bormes les Mimosas, spring is
finally arriving in the valleys beyond the coast line. It came about a week
later than last year, and the blossoming is not quite as abundant this
year.
The image above is of our mirabelle tree. It has lost a few branches in storms
and seems to have produced a ton of fruit last year in order to ensure
procreation. Luckily it survived both storms and over-abundant fruit production
(leading to the loss of more branches), but is flowering with a lot more
parsimony this year
Sunday 1 February 2009
Vineyards and the Massif des Maures at Gonfaron
By Hans-Josef Jeanrond on Sunday 1 February 2009, 17:10 - Provence / Var
Fog clearing below the Massif des Maures
Nebel lichtet sich am Fuss des Massif des Maures
Le brouillard se lève au pied du Massif des Maures
31 January marked the end of the season for "season greetings" in France.
This extended season gives French people a lot more time than those in most
other countries to recover from celebrations before sending their New Year's
wishes. It shows we have a different sense of time. (I say "we" since I have
adapted a long time ago. Having to be exactly on time has become a
strain...)
So it is time, even in France, to follow the greetings-entry of this blog with
a new posting.
Even though we have already had a glimpse of spring last Sunday (25 January)
seeing the mimosas blossom in Bormes les Mimosas, let us first come back to the
spot that figured on the greeting card in the last posting.
Saturday 27 December 2008
Bonne année - Happy New Year - Ein glückliches Neues Jahr
By Hans-Josef Jeanrond on Saturday 27 December 2008, 13:19 - Provence / Var
Wednesday 6 August 2008
Collobrières #3
By Hans-Josef Jeanrond on Wednesday 6 August 2008, 21:12 - Provence / Var
Les arbres protecteurs
Protecting trees
Schützende Bäume
December 2007
(Click on the image to enlarge)
Driving, cycling, and hiking through the countryside of the Var, you often
see trees planted next to sheds in the fields (and next to houses, of course).
Some of these sheds are very small, most of them very old, and one wonders why
it should be so important to have big trees so close to them, trees that
sometimes seem to crush the sheds.
Wednesday 23 July 2008
Collobrières #2
By Hans-Josef Jeanrond on Wednesday 23 July 2008, 23:10 - Provence / Var
Vue de ma fenêtre - droite
Looking out of my window - right
Sicht aus meinem Fenster - rechts
(Click on the image to enlarge)
As promised in the last posting, here are images made looking out of my
office window to the right, across the seasons.
Monday 14 July 2008
Collobrières dans le Var
By Hans-Josef Jeanrond on Monday 14 July 2008, 18:10 - Provence / Var
Change of scenery
Changement de décor
Neue Umgebung
(click on the image to enlarge)
Moving to Provence is a challenge:
Most French people think that you are retiring. Well I am not, and given the
state of retirement finances in France and in Germany, I will probably never be
able to retire. I hope my customers and prospects don't think I am retired, and
they don't need to call upon me any more!
The people in the south suspect, that if you are not retired, you will not live
here during the whole year. Probably thinking « no need to integrate these
people », they won't be around most of the time.
Worse still: How do you move from a project of rather abstract photography
at La Défense to the postcard-landscapes of Provence, photographed a million
times before you get there? Or how do you write about your experience without
subconsciously plagiarising Marcel Pagnol or Peter Mayle?