Amongst the reeds, scenes from the Camargue

Hello everyone! We are in the Luberon but due to a storm on Christmas Day there is no internet or phone at the cottage. So we have driven up to a mountaintop to say Hello to the world, the sun is taking its final bow and the view is beautiful. In these final days of 2013, I have been focusing on gratitude more than ever and that most certainly applies to all of you, who have given such support, joy and kindness. I thank you with all of my heart. I am signing out as the sun goes down on one year, while eagerly awaiting the arrival of the next. And although I most likely will not be in touch again until after January 6th, please know that I am sending wishes of peace, prosperity, health and many wonderful discoveries in 2014…until then I leave you with these images of the reeds of the Camargue that bend in the wind and yet resist, snapping back to stand tall.
With all of my Very Best,
Heather

24 comments

  1. David had me going, for a minute. What are the oval rocks with holes in them? Naturally-occurring in the Camargue landscape or part of a still life?

  2. Such a beautiful post again, thank you. All the best to the four of you. May you all have a very happy New Year!

  4. Heather…it has been an absolute delight and pleasure following along these past years, I look forward to many more. Your photos are wonderful and the fact that you are out of reach for six days…think of the possibilities!! I hope you get a chance to write and photograph to your heart's content…very best wishes my friend for a Wonderful New Year…xxx

  5. Thank you for all your beautiful words and may your life be filled with good health, happiness and laughter.

  6. Heather, these images seem to convey peace, calm and contentment. May that be a wonderful heralding of the New Year!
    Cheers,
    Deborah from Melbourne.

  7. Dear Miss ( I assume that you stubbornly refuse to marry, even while you publicly co-habitate?) Heather,

    I cannot possibly express the horror and umitigated disgust I (and, I am sure, MANY others around the globe) just felt at reading your self-indulgent, materialistic, grotesquely sexualized, and otherwise repellant (spiritually, physically, and personally) posting. In addition, I do not appreciate your modern tendency towards "Nature Worship"; The Anglican Communion should provide sufficent succour and comfort for ANYONE, I would think (were someone so impertinent as to ask me).

    Apparently, you feel No SHAME in advertising your willful and abandoned "Vacance" (may I add here that I have no idea why anyone would speak French, when NORMAL English is good enough for any decent Christian?) with a man who is clearly not your legal husband, no matter how you carouse and cavort with him across "exotic" landscapes, What message do you think this sends out to Our Children and The World? Believe me…I understand how it might seem tempting to fling and flaunt yourself across France, but do you need to publish it on the worldwide interweb? Have you considered the shame this brings to your aged and no doubt fatigued (I gather she given birth multiple times) mother?

    May I simply and, with all due Christian humility, suggest that you do yourself and The Entire World no favors by FLAUNTING your patent disregard for the norms and standard niceties of DECENT society???????

    I do not worry over nor, for that matter, even THINK of "the reeds of Carmaque". They are inconsequential in the Great Scheme of Things.

    I worry for you. I will, of course, pray for you and attempt not to criticize or condemn your selfish, undisciplined, wanton, deliberately iconoclastic, and generally abhorrent " artistic lifestyle".

    I am a bachelor and, so, do not perhaps understand all of this world's temptations. Still?…it seems to me that you gluttonously and greedily slurped and swallowed down all of them that you could find.

    I find that morally and spiritually repellant, to be perfectly frank.

    Quite Sincerely, if in complete disgust at your lack of a proper sense of Duty, Austerity, and Theological Rigor,

    The Right Rev. Dr. David C. Terry
    Webb House
    Hillsborough, NC
    http://www.davidterryart.com

  9. Hi Heather,
    The calm beautiful photos and your best wishes for the new year are inspirations for all of us.
    Thank you.

    Wishing you and Remi a safe, healthy, and prosperous New Year.

    Edgar

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