As I took a brief stroll to the edge of the village and beyond, I was impressed by the careful gardening and colourful plantings which live up to the village's proud designation, village fleuri (village of flowers).
'Honey wagon' going through village's main street |
One road leading away from Pierrefontaine-les-Blamont climbed briefly before offering a view of the surrounding farmlands and a peak of the rooftops and church steeples of Blamont.
View of Blamont from outside Pierrefontaine-les-Blamont |
View of Blamont from outside Pierrefontaine-les-Blamont |
Someone cleverly transformed the stumps of two fallen trees into morel mushrooms (real delicacies of the woods).
A welcoming Montbéliarde cow. |
We then drove a short distance to the Brisepoutot Farms, where Janice's Great-great Grandmother (Catherine Richard) was born in 1831 and married to Christian Lugbill/Lugbull in 1851. These farms obtained their water from two limestone springs (visit the website, then click on Hydrologie).