Oh how it has changed! April 30, 2015

When we got to our little village of Saint Quentin la Poterie, March 15th, it was just barely this side of winter!
Now, it is full blown spring!

The fields were brown, and the trees were bare!  They began to plow the fields the first week or so.  A second plowing, and seed was sown, about 3 weeks later.   We have watched the wheat, trees, bushes, flowers and grasses burst forth with a vengeance!  When we started, the grasses on the side of the road were barely 3 inches tall.   Now, some the grasses are waist high!  In about 5 weeks time, everything is green and exploding with life!  Provence is on Steroids!

We continue our walks into town, or just one way if one of us has the car.  We walk together both ways, or, if one of us has driven to town, one of us will walk into town and rendezvous in Uzes.  We drive home together.  We are trying to get into shape to walk in Paris!  Several of our friends in the French newcomers club hike for 3 to 4 hours, on a regular basis.

The wisteria bloom and fragrance has been replaced by the fragrance of jasmine and lilacs!
Poppies cut through the green fields, like a lightning bolt to the eye!  Fields of mustard (or canola?) paint swatches of bright, sunny yellow across the fields!  I now see wild flowers that I have never seen before, and even the smallest flowers stand out to the eye, because everything is green.

Here are more pictures from the ancient path;