More from our day in Trigance, in Provence.
My good friend Linda and I both seem to have this obsession with photographing interesting old doors and windows in our travels. I think she'll like this one.
Blue seemed a rather popular color to paint one's doors and windows shutters in Trigance. I liked this because it was just adjacent to an archway. On the other side of the arch was a little shop where they make and sell locally "famous" honey and honey-based products like nougat, so we stopped to buy some.
It was difficult to tell if both these doors open into the same house, or two different houses. Perhaps the one on the right was for the animals and the one on the left for the family; that wasn't unusual for the same building to house both people and their livestock. I love the old, weathered wood doors and the giant blocks of stone. That's why these houses last hundreds, if not thousands, of years. I'm not sure if the "1688" on the door lintel was the house number or a date, but my guess it that it's a date as I don't remember seeing house numbers on any other houses; the village is so small I think the postman just knows who lives where.
I'll save the rest for one more post, tomorrow.
