Brioude : détails

This slideshow made up of some detailed and close-up photos I took in and around the church in Brioude consists of 14 images and runs for about two minutes. Brioude is a town in Auvergne, about halfway between Clermont-Ferrand to the north and Le Puy-en-Velay to the south.

Here in Saint-Aignan, we're hoping we didn't have our spring weather for the year in late February and late March. The weather has turned cold again, and a little rainy. It's getting to be time to get serious about preparing the vegetable garden for our 2019 plantings, and about repotting a lot of house plants. Walt already has seedlings coming up in little pots. It'll be interesting to see how the soil in the garden will look when we take up the tarps we spread over it last fall. Some warmer temperatures will be welcome.

I'm struggling a little with "clock lag" — or maybe it should be called "body-time lag" — since we moved our clocks ahead by an hour last Sunday. The sun comes up later, and with all the cloudy skies we've been having this week, sunrise is effectively even later now than the clock says it is. We had gotten used to seeing daylight before 7:00 a.m. Now at 8:00 some mornings it's still kind of dark outdoors.