For 2014 I set myself a project to take and publish a photograph every day. Hopefully. Here are the results.
Well here’s a mystery; on Tuesday night I wrote a very amusing blog about my day, getting to Le Puy, booking my tickets, having lunch, visiting the cathedral and Saint Michel d’Aighuile. I then had some fun going on about my very excellent dinner and then posted it. And it has entirely disappeared! Now I…
Saint-Michel d’Aiguilhe. The Rocher Saint-Michel d’Aiguilhe is a volcanic stump that sticks up just on the edge of the old town of Le Puy en Velay. The first Christian chapel on the top was consecrated in the year AD 961 although there is believed to have been a Roman pagan temple there earlier. The first…
Bizarre Stone Head. I’ve been exploring Langogne today and found this bizarre stone head on a plinth inside the church. Sadly there appeared to be nothing around by way of explanation. I am though very pleased to have used the word plinth, its such a lovely word. 8 September 2014
Ancient Stonework. On an old church with very weathered stonework I was pleased to see that this piece had been kept when they were repointing the wall. 7 September 2014
La France Profonde. There are parts of France that have become very depopulated, la France Profonde. Today I passed through this habitation, not big enough to be a village probably a hamlet, a very few inhabited houses with the others either for sale or derelict. Who’d want to buy here though. Sad. 6 September 2014
Barn Wall. I try to find interesting things to photograph for this project, so here’s something that I’ve never seen before. The end wall of this barn was made entirely out of the tops and bottoms of old oil drums; nothing goes to waste in the Auvergne although I do wonder what they did with…
Madonna and Child. In Le Puy en Velay there are some volcanic stumps and on one of them is this huge Madonna and Child made from bronze recovered from cannon captured at the seige of Sebastopol. On a previous visit I climbed up inside and the views are amazing. Tonight it is the view from…
My Birthday Cake. Today is my birthday and this was my birthday cake, it was delicious. One daughter and two granddaughters helped us eat it. A note on the candles, Mrs Sixwheeler did not have the right ‘numbers’ candles so made it up with sixty five plus two more. Now that’s what I call initiative.…
Maude (again). I caught Maude catching a bit of sun this morning. I’m glad she was enjoying the moment as I’m well aware that she knows I’m going away, she’s sensitive to the signs, and she will be a bit subdued while I’m away. On the other hand when I get home the welcome is…
Stone Roof Shingles. These stone roof shingles are typical of country buildings of this area of the West Country and Cotswolds. Their robustness and irregularity is most attractive. 1 September 2014
The Sixwheeler Chronicles 