#9-AROUND TOWN

Most of this blog will be scenes around town and countryside. Yesterday( Thurs.), I took the dog and we walked along the canal and Rue des Iles, and back to town. We did about 5 km. My day was over 10,000 steps. Many of the shots are just to show how delightful it is to walk around here.

The trees here lose their leaves too and this one lost several of its branches in the snow.

I don't know if it's called a heron, but it's long-legged and stands in the water.

La Morge winds in and out around the town and countryside. I always stop and watch and listen

A field of cabbage

Men harvesting leeks

I'd forgotten about our peacock friend that we met last year. I assume he's the same guy.

The roads run close

AND this one in town is so narrow and blocked from view that it's one way with a traffic light.

I should have taken a better angle but this is a bamboo security fence and also privacy fence. 

Here are David and Charlie helping out Mme. Blondeau with the tree damage.

In the evening, I created a Van Gogh. It was tiny pieces that didn't interlock. An exercise in frustration

Today, Friday, was a shorter walk as the sky began to 'leak'. I walked on a couple of streets where I'd never gone before, but by now I have a pretty good 'lay of the land'.

Never tire of seeing the flowers

Feel of old Europe

Then some newer cute houses like chalets

A huge park in town, where we will go for the fireworks

An ancient church, not active

The active church, beautiful inside too (I  was in last year)

Then I spied my mother's name. The sun had popped out before I got home and I looked for a rainbow, but found none.q

I have a theory that all the dampness is what encourages the moss that grows on everything; trees, sidewalks, houses

Every day all year long regardless of the weather, classes of kids of all ages, walk to their activities of swimming, track, gym- which are all by our house; 

So we see and hear them going by.

Tomorrow marks 3 weeks since my visit began, and Sunday begins Advent.