Leaving Provence

I finally got the photos of the Calanques to download so I will post some here. We really had such a great time on the beach before we discovered the smashed car window.
Overlooking the beach is a tiny hotel and café/restaurant. We stopped there to get a cool drink halfway up the hill so here are some photos...this is the way down to the beach. You can see the people in that tiny space near the water.

Here is the beach early in the day...

and later in the afternoon just before we left. That is a huge fig tree on the left...another prime spot to sit in. I thought the rock formations down on the water looked like Woody Woodpecker's head. There were rock climbers scaling the side while we were swimming.

We have just stopped for a Perrier menthe to cool off. The beach is down below...looks almost like a tropical island!

Yesterday as we were driving home we came around a rond point (round about) and I saw the first sunflowers that had begun to bloom in a field of green leaves and stems.

This field was located along the side of a busy road and trucks were zooming by as I took the pictures! 

This is a different rond point coming into Pernes les Fontaines...beautifully planted with lavender, Russian sage, santolina and other fragrant plants.

And here is the blooming lavender near the beehives across from the rond point.

Sunflowers and lavender are really the symbols I think of Provence and tomorrow we will leave them all behind for this year.

It has been quite a fantastic time for us with such excitement with the arrival of our new family member Oscar. I am going to miss the everyday little things we got to do. Many good memories.