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Here at Gamone, winter weather reports are often alarming. And the press photos accompanying such reports often make things worse. I&#...

In the early hours of the morning, when your house is lost in autumnal mists, and everything around you is so quiet and motionless that the...

This morning, Choranche received the first autumn snow. (Winter won’t start, of course, before a month’s time.) And the view from m...

Over the last week, when the weather was bitterly cold, I allowed Fitzroy , exceptionally, to sleep in the kitchen with Sophia . Inside the ...

There's a magic morning moment when the sun is about to creep out from behind the Cournouze, to the right, and strike the frozen landsca...

It's cold and damp at Gamone, and the sky is gray. During the night, France will be changing to daylight saving time. The view of the sl...

My marble-topped café tables make a perfect snow gauge for Gamone. The thickness of the snow layer, this afternoon, was 30 centimeters.

Here's another photo of the Cournouze, taken today: If you compare this image with the one displayed in my recent article entitled Sisyp...

There's no doubt about it. The weather has been very cool throughout France over the last few days. In the capital, to my mind, a man ...

Not long ago, this was the splendid vision from my bedroom window: This afternoon, the situation at the far end of the Bourne Valley [also k...