La granja moscalhada*

From the road this building looks like a mazet (a vineyard shelter), but when I got closer to it, up the track through the vines, I could see that it was once a more substantial two-storey dwelling - grange in French, granja in Occitan - but it's in a sad state of ruin now, although what looks like a rounded bread oven still stands by the back wall. I liked its speckled appearance, showing the different stone used to build it: variations on limestone dotted with black volcanic rock from the hill behind, Cadablès, an old volcano.

Although it looks warm in the bright sunlight, the wind was freezing cold and in the distance you can just see snow on one of the mountains in the Haut Languedoc (better in LARGE). Winter is here!

* the speckled grange in Occitan