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Published: 2009-01-27 23:03:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 767; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 29
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A doorway in Roussillon, the Rusty Village, known for it's ochre quarry and many ochre-painted buildings.Related content
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What's ochre? Everything is so beautiful! I love that vine climbing up the wall in the background.
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Thanks so much! Ja, ochre is a sort of sediment, actually. It's like the reddish clay looking stuff that people dig up. They seperate it from the sand, as ochre's really really fine, and then they take the ochre, bake it into bricks, and use it for paint pigments and all kinds of crazy stuff
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I'm a little 'rusty' with my French (bad pun), but it seems odd to name a place Red village; but hey I live near Ware (pronounced "Where").
That central gutter is a really interesting landscape feature; and the stones in the arch have many lovely colors in the grain of the stone. I do very much like this shot.
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Oh, this is a cool one! I love all those old European towns that were built before cars were invented, so the streets are all winding around and there are zillions of back alleys going everywhere... *happy sigh*
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Thanks! yeah it's crazy beautiful!
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AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH it's all still so beautiful O__O
It's great you get to experience all this...^__^
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Thanks so much, Elaaaaine!! n.n
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