AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE

Colza, à perte de vue à la Beauce. La Beauce is a large, flat and fertile agricultural region southeast of Paris producing colza, wheat and white beets. So much wheat is produced there that it's called the grenier à blé de la France.

Vocabulary
la vue:  sight
une perte:  a loss
un champ:  a field
un grenier:  a barn or granary
le blé:  wheat
un grenier à blé:  a wheat basket

Photo courtesy of Pierre Lechanteux
©2012 P.B. Lecron

LET IT RAIN

A Sunday promenade near colza fields in la Beauce, one of the regions in France that receives the least rain. Photo courtesy of Pierre Lechanteux.

©2012 P.B. Lecron