Heat wave #2 for this year

Here's what we have to look forward to, weatherwise, stating tomorrow. This is a 10 day forecast that I grabbed off the Accuweather web site. I modified the settings so that the text would display in English and the temperatures in Fahrenheit. Rignt now I'm airing out the house and letting cool morning air in before it gets hot outwide (high today 88ºF). We'll close the windows and shutters later this morning to keep the sun and heat out. We'll be spending a lot of time indoors over the week to come.

Hydrangea

The hydrangeas in our yard are really nice this year.They survived the May canicule and are in full flower right now.

Neighborhood prunes

If nobody else picks them, I will. Just a few.
However, they don't usually ripen until September.
Maybe this year's May heat wave will advance that date.

Le Pont du Gard (1989)

It was October in 1989 and Walt and I were starting a road trip from Grenoble to Toulouse and then north to Paris via Saint-Aignan and Chartres. (Little did we know that one day we'd end up living in Saint-Aignan, a place we had never even heard of back then. But that's another story.)

One of our first stops was the pont du Gard, an enormous Roman aqueduct about 30 minutes by west of Avignon by car. Not only did we see it from afar, but we climbed stairs up to the bridge's top level and walked the length of it. It was impressive and it felt more than slightly dangerous because there was nothing to prevent you from tripping and falling from up there into the river or onto the rocks 50 meters (164 ft.) below.

Walt took these pictures of the Pont du Gard. I'm not even sure that I traveled with, or even owned, a camera in those days. I found Walt's 1989 photos on my hard disk yesterday morning. Neither of us is in any of the pictures.