Esparon, the house on a mountain

I just got back from helping architect friends to build their house in South of France. One hour from Nîmes, the town with the beautiful light there is a small village on top of a mountain. They bought an old ruin, and preserving the old walls and the layout, they are now building on to it.

There was a full moon, and you could see the moonlit valley and the unfinished roof.
So quiet, you could hear the owl sounds and see the mountains 280 degrees around you.
Everything about this place is just magical.

Seascape [Cloudy]

'Seascape [Cloudy]', Gerhard Richter, 1969

Isle of the dead, Arnold Böcklin

Isle of the dead (first version), Arnold Böcklin, 1880