Provence colors

In the breath of the mistral, the cart is ready, the picking of olives can begin.

"Under the influence of the wind so changeable, the reflections of the olive trees's leaves give life in Provence."

On the wooden scales the hand of the collector of olive bustles ceaselessly.

" From the beginning to the end of the winter the fields of olive trees know a big activity. "

A Provençal hamlet in beautiful environment of the fields of lavenders. In July just before the harvest this beautiful lavender in the infinity creates an intoxicating and colored atmosphere.

"In summer, these quite blue fields attract the photographers and the tourists who pick some stalks in spite of the prohibition."

The lines of lavenders invade countryside as a wave which rushes into reliefs and marries all forms of the ground.

"Positioned at the beginning of fields the length and the linearity of these long blue lines give the dizziness. "

Over time poppies spread out in the Provençal country. They get involved without concession in all the surrounding essences.

"Bursting red points which dance or wave according to the wind and lie down in front of mistral. "

The water of the fountain pours at the rate of the seasons and gathers for diverse reasons the occupants of the Provençal farm. Reduced to a net the summer it is the vital element of our Southern regions.

"Well before "Manon des Sources", our ancestors always looked for the water source before implanting their activity and building the ancient country-house."

At the end of the spring fields of lavender adorns itself with its bluish color which contrasts with yellow deep of brooms still in flowers. The colors of Provence in the wild state.

"On the background of blue sky, evergreen leaves of the olive tree come stacked the green and the silver in this explosion of colors."

The windmill implanted on the heights of the relief takes advantage of an often present wind and dominates majestically the decoration of crib of the Provençal villages.

"Brought back by East by the Knight Templars, the first windmills in Europe were implanted in Provence. Abandoned or renewed it are a part of the patrimony."

Only Small size

Typically Provençal and very rich, the fountain of Saint-Paul is a model of its kind. In the Middle Ages a small market was held under arches.

"The fountain in Provence is an inescapable meeting place where we find ourselves easily to discuss in the cool of the evening."

A ray of sunshine manages to sneak in the narrow alleys to come to illuminate the flowery front door of this attractive Provençal house.

"More streets are narrow more they keep the freshness the summer and protect from the wind the winter."

At the end of the street attractive one build traditional with a flowery staircase which dominates the sea bluish. Guaranteed well-being.

"Isolated at the end of the coastal villages certain houses have to envy nothing the most beautiful houses."

In summer, in the cool of the evening, a walk on the dirt tracks which separate the fields of olive tree which spread out below the village.

"The smells of Provence type you in the nose and the song of cicadas bewitches you for ever."

Sensitive to the slightest draft, fragile and short-lived poppies wave and become muddled in the transparent vase.

"Decoratively nothing amounts one fields of it poppy in the middle of nowhere."

In spring in rocky ways in the middle of olive trees, the nature adorns itself with a multitude of flowers which decorate subtly fields.

"It is more that a walk, it is the discovery in the rich and varied flora which abounds and perfumes."

In a heat haze poppies drill the ground to come to contrast with the green and the silver of the leaves of olive trees.

"At the foot of these hundred-year-old trees the Mediterranean vegetation takes advantage of the quite particular attention carried in olive trees."

Often perched on a headland, the ancient country-house dominates the lands of the domain. As far as the eye can see, under surveillance, fields of wheat and lavenders.

"Not far from the building the threshing floor of the wheat which was dried then stored and preserved in the attic."

The Haute-Provence possesses a poor and calcareous ground adapted well to this need to suffer that wait for the lavender. Hives and bees accompany the decoration. An attractive village at the end of the regular lines.

"A dry landscape where the ground is white, cheered up by the brightness of the lavender and the brooms. Rigorous clear sky."

In the plain, in border of fields of lavenders a row of olive trees aligned north side and cleanly maintained.

"Both cultures does not annoy. On the contrary she asks for attention and for maintenance in different periods."

A small hamlet full of charm in the Provençal Drôme and always of areas of lavenders to color the painting.

"The majesty of the Mount Ventoux to the four winds the benevolence of which dominates the landscape."

Horses of the Camargue at a gallop in this wonderful area where it live free when it are not used for the work.

"The Camargue is the exact name of the race of these small horses which we find around all the herds of bulls."