New Year's Day 2012

With all our best wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year.

    After a splendid meal with good company on New Year's Eve,  a brisk (well maybe not so brisk) walk on a beautiful winter day was precisely what the doctor ordered.   The winter scenery was at its best in the late afternoon light (rising early on New Year's Day was not part of our Resolutions).

We walked passed the old vines that had be shorn of their summer growth.....

.....and ploughed fields waiting for the winter frosts.

The sun played on the plane trees against the background of the Luberon mountains. 

Lourmarin was looking its very best (4.50 pm).....

...and as the trees were largely bereft of foliage, we were given the opportunity to see less customary views, like this of the back of the Chateau de Lourmarin.

At 5 p.m. the bells of either one of the churches or the town belfry chimed the hour; four minutes later the bells of either the town belfry or one of the churches chimed the hour.  Precise time is not a requirement for life in the Luberon - thankfully!

So the afternoon finished as we continued back to home taking the main road.

A good walk was enjoyed by all as we made it back home as the sun was setting.