Grapevines in the middle ground.
This looks like suburbia to me......
I really should have taken pics of all the station signs, to give me a hint as to where we were when the pics were taken.
Cattle.
This looks a bit like an overgrown Christmas-tree farm. I wonder what it really was.
Someone's back yard, with vehicles.
Tree, with clouds, vines, and corn.
A different kind of cattle.
Harvested field, with greens and clouds.
I hadn't been thinking of France as Big Sky country, but parts of it are.
At last, some sunflowers in full bloom!
I wonder if these are a different variety, or just a later planting.
It looks almost like we might be standing there, except for the blurry right side that shows we were in motion.
I thought, as I processed these, that the next shot looks a lot more like agribusiness than it looks like the family farm.
River, with cows and clouds.
Our first hint that we were near the ocean.
I'm not sure when it was, on this train trip, that we began to chat with Chantal. We sat across from each other. She was known to the conductor; they greeted each other as friends. He told us she liked to talk, and she agreed that she did. We were glad to talk with her.
It turned out that she and I have fabric in common -- she is a quilter, and has had quilts in some of the big shows in Europe. Some of my friends from here in the USA have had quilts in some of the big European shows, too, so that gave us common ground immediately
She was friendly and interested and interesting, and it wasn't long before she offered to take us around La Rochelle the next day.
What a nice offer -- someone who knows what's what to give us a personal tour!
Chantal drove us to our hotel, and we parted with a plan to meet in front of the hotel the next morning.
In order to facilitate chronological traverse of these posts, here is a link to the post that comes after this one.
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2 comments:
Gorgeous. My favorite is the tree, with clouds, vines, and corn. :)
Lovely sunflowers too! In Maryland, they used to (probably still do) plant sunflowers then cut them down to attract doves for hunters.
I like that one, too.
I always need to remind myself -- Take The Pic.
It's true that dirty windows, glare, reflection, and all that darned motion all conspire to make a decent shot unlikely.
On the other hand, some of my very favorite pics have been taken from moving vehicles.
Loooooove digital, which makes it possible to take a million pics with basically no incremental cost!
Take a LOT of pics, throw most of them away, mess with the remainder.....
:-)
Someone pointed out to me that NO ONE (not even any of the other tourists) were taking pics out the train windows.
Oh. Hadn't noticed. Guess I was busy ... taking pics..........
:-) :-) :-)
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