‘Pruniers, Gascogne’

The Lot & Garonne is well known for its prunes. This orchard stands on the heights of Dropt Valley. On the other bank, the blue distances roll away into Guyenne & Gasconny, the old provinces & principalities of the South West of France.

This is the second year in a row that the plum crops have been bad. The neighbours are beginning to dread next year as three bad years on the trot can really hurt a farmer.Soon they will be grubbing out the prune trees that once made the region famous ‘pruneaux d’agen’.. importing them from argentina now i believe.

Here’s a 30 x 40 of the plum blossom two spring-times ago, during ‘La Lune Rousse’, the red moon.