Antipodes

Certain words and expressions in the glorious French language correspond, in my mind, to opposite extremes on the scale of beauty and ugline...

During the night after Sophia left us, the Albertine came out in bloom. [Click to enlarge] That will be an annual reminder of Sophi...

b 25 July 1998 Beauvoir-en-Royans d 29 May 2012 St-Jean-en-Royans During the final weeks and days, I appreciated greatly the wise and ...

On the slopes just above my house, the gully where Gamone Creek flows (when there's rain) is, at present, a dark and humid jungle. And t...

Over the last week, Sophia has been avoiding all meat-based food including, above all, her customary croquettes . She's surviving on ra...

Over the last week or so, my lovely 13-year-old dog Sophia has been affected by alarming health problems, and I'm trying desperately to...

For the last two days, my memories have been dominated by images of Christine's dear dog Gamone . In the stark clarity of the death of a...

Sophia 's primary wish, as she grows older, is to lead a peaceful and lazy (non-strenuous) existence... like all of us, you might say. ...

I like to be surrounded by all kinds of books, so that I can pick them up at random whenever I feel like reading something different. And I...

I don't have any photos, because it all happened unexpectedly. Towards the end of Monday afternoon, my new Gamone neighbors phoned to in...

Inside the house, whenever Sophia leaves her big wicker basket empty, Fitzroy has the habit of hopping into it, and often falling asleep. ...

This afternoon, at the agricultural cooperative in Saint-Jean-en-Royans, I bought a huge buffalo-hide "bone" as a first birthday p...

Some time ago, when I took the train down to Marseille, accompanied by my dog Sophia , I had an opportunity of discovering, thanks to the wo...

I shot this video clip this morning, at the top of the stone staircase (which I built last year) leading down into my flower garden. Sophi...

Although I continue to spend a huge part of my time in front of the computer screen—where I've been examining the interesting rapidly-ev...

In an earlier life, at an epoch designated communally by archaeologists as BF [ B EFORE F ITZROY ], this excavated textile specimen was no...

No, I'm not talking of running hoses, such as when you forget to turn a tap off in the garden. Hose running is a totally different affai...

The sun was shining, yesterday, at Gamone. It was almost like a warm spring day. So, I went out walking with the dogs. As usual, Fitzroy ta...

I've had an outage of the Internet and my house telephone for the last couple of days. Funnily, I don't think this breakdown had any...