"I live in the forest" Within a distance of two kilometers around my house there is a forest where one can find: pine, oak, holm oak, juniper, red juniper and hawthorn. The plants of the place are: thyme, rosemary, wild lavender and several species of graminoids. There are mushrooms under the trees: in spring the morel and in autumn the “pineys”, also called “saffron milk caps” and cantarella. In winter it is time to search some truffles.... Wild animals are many: fox, wild boar, hare, the badger and the dormouse. In the Durance some beavers and nutrias are living. For five years the squirrel and wild rabbits have become scarce. The rabbits have died from myxomatosis. I do not know really why the squirrels are gone, but three years ago I have found five of them dead on the ground. Birds are many: the blackbird, the jay, magpie, oriole, the dove, pigeon, almost all cherries thieves, but this year we have not seen the swallow and the swift. The grey lizards and the green lizards are few but we have seen a young Montpellier Snake in the early spring. The may-beetle is almost gone but there is still some green carabo on the flowers of the hawthorn. We are awaiting the arrival of the cicadas at the end of June. Yesterday we had a storm with lightning, winds and precipitation but summer is coming up with the fear of fire.