A big storm — une tempête in French — named Amélie is sweeping across France this morning. Wind gusts as high as 160 k.p.h. (100 m.p.h.) have been recorded on the Atlantic coast south of us (Bordeaux, Basque Country) and to the west in Brittany. We've been having heavy rains for 12 hours or more, but we've been spared the wind.
Here's a slideshow made up of photos I took early yesterday morning on my walk with the dog out in the Renaudière vineyard. The light was very dim, so I've processed some of the photos in Photoshop to rescue them. The storm was approaching at that point and it started raining around noontime.
The vineyard is lovely this time of year. The photoshopped photos look good.
ReplyDeleteThe vineyard is beautiful right now, even though the ground is squishy, soppy, sloppy.
DeleteThe photos have a cool effect of having been painted, and show off your autumn views quite nicely :)
ReplyDeleteKen, I just read your comment back to me -- yes, our access to things for teaching has completely changed, in a wonderful way, with Internet. I remember the days when I would be thrilled (literally!) just to run across an old French textbook at a book fair... other than that, we might only run across college French books-- you know, poetry or plays or literature. On rare rare occasion, maybe an Agatha Christie book translated into French, or, rarer still, some kind of contemporary paperback in French. At the main library of our county system,you might find a copy of Paris Match. I remember bringing back a weekly copy of Pariscope or L'Officiel des Spectacles, to use photocopies of for years after. Now... the whole world is open up to us! Any kind of online catalog, blog, images of just about anything, Google map streetview can plop us right down on a street in a neighborhood in Belgium or France, anywhere... almost any poem or literature you want is easily available online, cooking shows, movies to stream, TV shows, images of Food products, food wrappers, restaurant menus, websites with background and images for any château or cathedral -- just anything. It's fabulous, really.
It's true, Google Maps and the street view is an amazing resource. Not to mention YouTube.
DeleteNice images. Yellow seems to predominate this season. I love the shape of the poplar trees (I think that's what they are).
ReplyDeleteYes, yellow dominates. The reds have faded by now except in just a few spots.
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