Significance of The grape vines

These are an integral part of the landscape of Provence, and of the Mayles lives. As Peter describes: "We loved the vines - the ordered regularity of them against the sprawl of the mountain, the way they changed from bright green to darker green to yellow and red as spring and summer turned to autumn, the blue smoke in the pruning season as the clippings were burned, the pruned stumps studding the bare fields in the winter - they were meant to be here" (p. 7-8).