Observations
War in Ukraine observed from United Kingdom
Christmas Morning with grandchildren (Horsmonden, United Kingdom) Patrice and I are spending Christmas with Michelle and Nigel in Horsmonden, UK. We had met them a week ago in Calais to drive to Bruges, Belgium, for the Christmas Market, then onto England to spend the...
Collegiale de Notre Dame
December 15, 2022
Writing in France
La Coutine near Villars-Villenote My part of Burgundy (Côte-d'Or) is a landscape of ‘manicured’ rolling hills. The French farmers are meticulous, the crop rows straight ( three harvests a season), the hillsides dotted with white (charolais)...
The war in Ukraine as observed from Marseille
On 6 October, I met my daughter Marci, and grandson, Joshua, in Marseille. I simply have not the words to describe how happy I was. Perhaps this photo of my ‘doofus’ smile conveys the happiness my words cannot. We had sat in a cafe overlooking...
Kippenheim, Germany
For these past two + years Patrice and I became acquainted, grace a covid, with the medieval trails and French citizens in Semur-en-Auxios, France. No complaints. The Burgundian landscape is rolling and beautiful, its farmers are meticulous...
Bonne année
Happy New Year's Eve at 0700 from the Bar de la Poste, Semur-en-Auxios, Burgundy, France. The Bar de la Poste is the only coffee house-brasserie open at 0700 mornings in this section of Burgundy and here I am. But, the brasserie has a quite acceptable cafe au lait...