ABC Wednesday - Fort

I was going to do Freezing for F, but at the last moment thought, no winter has gone on for far too long, what about something from the dimly remembered summer. So I turn to a day at the beginning of September when the temperature was 28 degrees centigrade and the skies were clear blue, oh we can only dream of that at the moment in these northerly climes.  Although it has to be said, the skies are blue at the moment, but its a cold zero degrees blue.

Seen through the trees in the distance is the fairytale castle that is Fort La Latte

Do you recognise it?  Perhaps if you have ever seen the 1958 film The Vikings with Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis as unlikely Vikings.  This Fort was one they were battling over, however it was supposed to be in England somewhere, Northumberland I think,  but filming in France would be a much more attractive option.  Kirk Douglas attempts to storm the castle here

Fort La Latte is on the Emerald Coast from this viewpoint it is just a dot on the far promontory, but

looking the other way is one of the famous parts of the coast Cap Frehel  The colours at this time of year are of the vivid yellow gorse and purple heather.

The Cap Frehel's two lighthouses, old and new.  But until, as Stanley Kunitz calls it,

"the iron door of the north" clangs shut

then dream of fairytale castles, warm seas and sandy coves and the fluttering of butterflies, for there were many in this floral heath, but too fast for me and my camera.

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