France, into the Vercors, 18th April, a pretty mill

Just before the debacle with the duckling I had managed to take an infrared picture of the river, here converted to monochrome. I cannot decide if I like the poplar tree there or not. It certainly gives an accent but rather disturbs the flow of the island.

We packed up the van and set out to explore the Vercors. This is a less well known area of the Alps, where the mountains are not high but contain some spectacular scenery. The whole area is limestone and holds some large caves, none of which we visited. When the children were small we had several holidays in France were we did all the caves in the region. Eventually a guide could not say, "Voila le chou-fleur" without us bursting into laughter and the children would enquire "Ou est la Madonne?" So it got rather embarrassing and we have not visited a cave in France since.

We had not got far out of Pont-en-Royans on the road to the Gorge de la Bourne when, as the road turned we saw a very pretty, almost Tuscan looking mill building. A triangular shaped cliff rose up behind it and it would have been churlish not to photograph the view. I took some slow shutter speed shots as well, one of which I have included here.