18 December 2016

Brouillard

We never got to see the sun at all yesterday — or much of anything else, for that matter. The temperature stayed cold as thick fog — un brouillard épais — enveloped the area. The first picture shows the view from our kitchen window yesterday afternoon.


Walt went to the open-air Saint-Aignan market in the morning to order our bird for Christmas — un chapon de pintade — and he reported that the atmosphere was even murkier down in the river valley. We live on the heights, up a steep hill far above river level. Meanwhile, in the afternoon our back yard looked like this.


I'm not sure we'll see the sun today either. I'm going to make a Spanish-style tortilla for lunch, with a green salad. The Spanish tortilla is a potato omelet — not at all like a Mexican tortilla. I might have to go down into the village to see what the fog's like down there, and to pick up some fresh bread.

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  1. You have to admit, it is very atmospheric :)

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  2. I went out for a short drive this morning, taking advantage to run a couple of errands -- get some bread, drop off some recycling -- but mostly just to enjoy the foggy scenery. At one point, where the road runs thrpugh bare wintry fields, there were big flocks of crows feeding and flying en masse from field to field as I drove past. Against the gray sky, and through the mist and fog, it was all very picturesque.

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  3. Wow. That is some serious fog!
    We've got our first (small) snowfall of about 1/2 inch.... but it is FRIGID cold. It's 7° F, and we are having lows for a few days in the low single digits. Yikes.

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    1. Yikes is right. I wonder how the plants in our new greenhouse would do if we had temperatures that low.

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  4. the same foggy weather is here

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  5. We had that sort of crow congregations in NY State ... there were fields all over and I always thought it was all the birds going for seeds etc left after the combines came and mowed everything down.. Right before I left NY .. there was a Murmuration .. it was enough to make a person believe in God or something :) What a sight and the sound !

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    1. Isn't there something called a "murder" of crows. I saw a very good documentary about crows a while back, showing the funerals they seem to have when one of their number is killed.

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  6. Cold here today with a hard rain falling...

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    1. You need the rain in your area, I think. Makes me think of Patti Smith in Stockholm...

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