Spring Flowers

Spring flowers -- some might call them weeds -- in a vineyard.

This lovely little view is in the village of Barras, a 30 minute walk from our place. The view happens to be right in front of a new building put up by friends of ours, Francine and Klaas, for their growing shiitake mushroom business...

Note the vine supports -- slate (schist) poles of a type that are quite common around here. Though some of our vine wires are supported like this, others are on a mish-mash of bits of wood, steel pipe and other more pragmatic materials. Over time we hope to replace more of them with these beautiful pieces of slate.