Tag: nature
Winter on the Riviera: The Mimosa Route
All that glitters on the French Riviera, the Côte d’Azur, is not 18K gold. As Corinne LaBalme reports, bright yellow mimosa flowers add Mother Nature’s Midas Touch to the winter season, particularly along the Mimosa Route between the medieval village of Bormes-les-Mimosas and the perfume capital of Grasse.
5 Days in Auvergne: Part III, Chatel-Guyon
In Part III of the series "5 days in Auvergne," the author visits the spa town of Chatel-Guyon on the edge of the Regional Nature Park of the Volcanoes.
Trees and Place: Pointe du Layet on the Riviera
In the context of France Revisited’s study of the relationship between trees and place, three images at Pointe du Layet on the Riviera.
Va-nu-pieds: Returning to Parc de Sceaux
Va-nu-pieds, the Barefoot Photographer, feels the irrepressible pull of nature as he revisits the Parc de Sceaux south of Paris.
The Green Traveler: The Camargue, a View from the Saddle
Exit Provence's lavender charms and enter its cowboy country, horseback riding in the sparsely populated marshland called the Camargue. By Laurence Bry.
Va-nu-pieds: Square Paul Painlevé, La Neige / Snow
The barefoot French photographer Va-nu-pieds enjoys a rare walk in the snow in Paris and stops by a Siberian elm in the Latin Quarter.
This is a linden
The linden, le tilleul, has for centuries been a favored tree of European cityscapes, most famously along Berlin’s Under der Linden, which leads from...
A disturbing thing happened on my street
One day you’re walking down your street on your way home, taking in a view that you’ve seen a thousand, no, ten thousand times,...
Barefoot in the Parc de Sceaux
A bike and foot path called La Coulée Verte du Sud Parisien flows south from the edge of Paris by way of the lovely Parc de Sceaux.