postcard from provence

Mont Ventoux from Flassan

The Village of Flassan is about 4 miles from us and looks like a close cousin of our hamlet, using the same red sand, the earth around us, in the mortar which cements the fieldstones used to construct the houses. It is home also to one Anders Lazaret whom I met after Charley Parker wrote an article about me on the internet—Charley lives in Philidelphia.

It turns out, as it would, that Anders' aunt owns the only other inhabited house in our hamlet and his great grandfather was born in the house we now occupy. There's a story there somewhere...

- Julian Merrow-Smith

12cm x 18cm (4½"x7"), oil on gessoed card

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