Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Fontenay-près-Vézelay, Yonne: spring-fed lavoir. 2008

Water, water, everywhere — flowing in from two directions, and across walkways deeply enough that foot-long streamers of algae were flourishing on the paving, June 2008.

Asquins, Yonne: spring-fed lavoir. 2008

Very nasty dog nearby.  Beautiful, crystal-clear karst-country water.

Serrigny, Yonne: pipe-fed lavoir. 2008

Yrouerre, Yonne: double-impluvium lavoir. 2008

La Castagne, Montmaur, Haute-Garonne: spring-fed lavoir. 2008

Rabastens, Tarn: pipe-fed lavoir. 2008

The Lost Lavoir of Rabastens!

Montferrand, Aude: well-fed lavoir. 2008

From the Brutalist school of lavoir architecture.

St-Julia, Haute-Garonne: spring-fed lavoir. 2008

Multiple basins.  Near collapse (roof held up by iron pipes in open side.

Issel, Aude: pipe-fed lavoir. 2008

Serious amènagements have been undertaken here.

Les Cammazes, Aude: canal-fed lavoir. 2008

Nothing left of this lavoir but an embayment in the side of Vauban's canal (and the little sign to tell what it was).