This is my favorite view of my favorite place. It’s so much more intimate than the usual views of the village, yet instantly recognizable if you know it, because of the clock tower and the Catholic Church tower. And I love the way the pathway seems to draw me in.

I know it’s a tiny village off the road from Sarlat to Terrasson in the Dordogne, but I don’t know the name and can’t figure it out from looking at the map. It’s been bugging me lately because I have my screen saver set to the folder from our 2007 trip, and I keep seeing it and wondering. We looked out over this view while having lunch in a little restaurant whose proprietor also did stone sculptures like the one at the right. I mentioned the lunch in my blog entry for the day, but didn’t bother with the name.

I guess we’ll just have to go back and find it. As I remember, the food wasn’t spectacular, but it was such a lovely day in the little garden with the mannerly cat and lichen-covered statues of fat little animals that it didn’t matter.

Is it just me? Does everyone else keep better notes of things like this?

But I’ve finally started to work on them, and here is the first result, a selection of photos from our October 2005 and May 2007 trips to Provence.

These aren’t travelog photos showing the main tourist attractions, but just images I love for their color, texture or something that transports me back to Provence.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.