We all know ‘The Laughing cow’ cheese. It’s literally translated from the French brand ‘La vache qui rit’. This cow prefers playing the game of quille, a type of skittles played in SW France.

When the palombes migrate through SW France, hunters climb up to their cabins in the top of the trees. Sometimes the ladders need repairing. This lazy hunter has strung up a trapeze instead and his fellow hunter is not happy!

Birds of a feather stick together.

Battery chickens, or, Poules de batterie. In French, a batterie is also a drum kit, or percussion.

A pack of 5 cards, and multiples thereof.

When hunting for cépes you need all help you can get.

Carré d'agneau is a side of lamb chops. A carré is also 'argot' for a square-cut, bob hairstyle. This square-cut sheep is in its element on the mountain slopes.

Grandpa Gonzales is taking no risks, in his old Renault 4, en route for the village.

Reproduced as giclée print in various sizes, some with mounts. 

Under the arches of the market hall in Trie sur Baïse (65). Available as an A4, A3 and A2 print

There is only so much gardening a man can do.

This mushroom hunter is surprised that he feels rain… It is known that mushrooms often grow beneath the palombières in the trees. When a hunter has to go, he doesn’t waste time or reveal himself to the pigeons. We see grey cranes passing overhead en route for the corn fields.