Habetrot

Ahhh, Shade

Cool relief on a hot day in Moldava.

Grrrrrr

This knitter, her pretty little girl, and their helpful little dog are from Bethmale in the Ariège department in the mountainous Midi-Pyrénées region in southwest France, not far from the border with Spain.

The hand-tinted postcard dates to around 1905.  (Click images for bigness.)

 

I draw your attention to the knitter's rather extraordinary shoes. The inhabitants of Bethmale have long been known for their footwear, and there is a thousand-year-old rather gruesome legend behind them.  In French here and translated (roughly) here.

And what could be better than a view of sheep in the Pyrenees to take your mind off the gruesomeness?