Somewhere in Ardèche

What a strange creation... both able of the better and the worse... is there an architect in this universe which we can't understand sometimes?
My digital camera was very much used those latest days of November 2013 and those first days of December. During a stay whereas I didn't expect to move the shutter so often. This action precisely is due to these subtle lightings of Autumn which stimulated my love for remarkable works of nature (when it's in a good mood).
You should know that all these pictures were selected in an area maximum 50 meters around my temporary residence, in South of Ardèche.
Of course landscapes reminding the famous song of Jean Ferrat about the mountain. But also fantastic sights or imaginary panoramas shown within an ice lid containing chestnut leaves and air bubbles. The lid was removed from the top of a barrel filled with water, then laid on a wooden shelf. Or furthermore, other curious pictures issued from an ordinary tablemat made with a simple poplar trunk slice.
We therefore are incited to think of Pascal who placed man equally distant from infinitely great and from infinitesimal... the men of century 21st knowing besides that infinity may appear in a mere droplet...

(Copyright Jean-Michel Cagnon)