Looking up towards Bonnieux. There are hundreds of lovely hilltop villages in France. I think the Mistral-driven wisps of clouds above Bonnieux made this view particularly lovely.
Down in the fields below the hilltop villages in the South of France there are typically lots of vineyards. At this time of year the vines look small and wizened but they’ll soon flourish!
One thing which struck me here was how higgledy-piggledy (oh dear, I’m sure that’s not a real word!) the village is. There seems to be no order, just buildings on top of each other, crowded together in irregular streets. Really a chaotic and apparently random pattern. And yet, it was built by human beings. It didn’t just grow. Then down in the valley the order imposed on nature shows the straightest, most even lines of vines you could imagine.
So, here’s my dilemma. Why have people imposed such order on plants, but not on the buildings and streets they live in? (I mean the people responsible for these two views of course!)
Heroes Not Zombies 
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