Multicolour - # 67/2011

The fruit market in Ventiglia. Typical!

Green - # 66/2011

You'll have noticed I'm playing a game around "colours". Colour is essential to Mediterranean life. It must have something to do with the abundance of brilliant sunlight.

Yellow - # 64/2011

A quick trip across the border from France into the pleasant town of Ventimiglia, Italy, continues to show the style of Mediterranean life as we know it.  But climate change is making the area drier and drier.  Perhaps in 150 yrs from now it will be more like Muscat, Oman, with desalination plants and high energy consumption to power air cooling systems.  

Sunrise out of Italy - # 57/2011

Having been away I don't have any images of Richmond to offer for the time being.  So, from Menton, thanks to the well-oriented balconies of the excellent Hotel Napoleon, here is an image of the dawn rising out of Italy.  Already, Genoa and Ventimiglia, behind the headland are bathed in morning light. The dawn is breaking over France and the town of Menton.  For a few minutes the sky is liquid gold. The border is formed by the mountains as they form the headland sweeping down the sea, all nice and neat, to divide Italy from France.  The road and railway to Italy must pass through the tunnel.