Market day in Louhan

Louhans has the biggest market day hereabouts, every Monday. Nearly every shop in the surrounding towns closes Monday, presumably so everyone can do their weekly shopping in Louhans.
On our host’s advice, we rose early and arrived at the market by 8, and watched a lively trade in everything from llamas to (live) chickens to vegetables […]

Off to Romenay

We headed out from the Moulin de Lhomont  yesterday to lunch at the Lyon d’Or in Romenay. Sitting on the restaurant’s terrace we were treated to small slices of village life - boys playing soccer, a mother rounding up her wayward children, a couple walking.
Today we’re off to Louhan for market day… 

Le Moulin de Lhomont, la vie en compagne

We awoke late this morning, after yesterday’s marathon travels, and arrived at the boulanger in Montpont after they’d sold out of croissants: we made do with a loaf of the local pain Montponnais which went nicely with yogurt, oranges and good French coffee, brewed in a press.
We took some time to meet the neighbors, pictured, […]

Spring and I return to Baylands

Our Baylands walk this morning couldn’t have been prettier. Shorts-and-T-shirt weather has (finally) returned, and I made the roughly 1-mile walk 10 minutes faster than last time.
Spring wildlife abounds: Linda spotted goslings and a pheasant, and I had fun photographing a flock of Commorants and an Egret that was posing photogenically near the dam that […]

Closing out a very hard week

A ‘chick flick’ (Linda’s description, not mine) shows (L to R) Linda (a lay eucharistic minister), the Rev. Frannie Hall-Kieschnick and the Rev. Beth Foote presiding at Sunday’s 10:30 service at Trinity. The sermon, which beautifully helped us walk through the stages of lamentation over rector Mike Spillane’s death, was delivered by Stanford’s Rev. […]

Return to Arastradero, spring 2008

We walked for a bit over an hour today, in Palo Alto’s Arastradero Preserve, long a favorite jogging venue for Linda and I (and the late, much missed Cassie, the Australian Shepherd).
Arastradero is particularly delightful in the spring, and I was very happy to be walking its trails again. Linda jogged her 5+ mile loop […]

New home: prime Silicon Valley location

Here’s the Robin Red-Breast who’s taken up residence in our new patio umbrella. It was a bit tricky shooting her from inside the house, through a window, so not to scare her. Her nest is the second on the premises, the first being in the spring wreath adjacent to our front door. A cool snap […]

A segue from shop to walk

We tacked our daily walk onto a little shopping expedition to the Stanford Shopping Center where the ’safety officers’ have taken to riding around on Segways. Our loot: a fry-pan splatter shield from Williams-Sonoma, The iPhone Missing Manual from the Apple Store and 2 Nike shirts (on sale)…

Geekin’

So, we came home this afternoon, after a shrink visit and an hour’s walk (a loop through downtown Menlo) to find that one of our hard drives had failed. It was kind of like coming out of the clinic yesterday and finding a flat tire on our car. So I’m digging through my box of […]

Catching up

So we are doing our best to catch up from four days on the road, but we were off to an inauspicious start this morning. Emerging from the blood lab shortly after 8, we discovered a flat tire on our Ford Escape Hybrid. That was the bad news: an hour or so later, the good […]

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