15 December 2024

Abondance de biens

This morning I asked my laptop computer to tell count the number of JPG image files it could find on my hard disks. Here's the number it came up with: 724,956. That's almost three-quarters of a million JPGs. So why am I finding it so hard to find one or two to post this morning?

In French, people say: Abondance de biens ne nuit pas. That means something like "you can't have too much of a good thing." Or: "An abundance of good things can do you no harm." Think of French biens meaning "possessions" but also "goods" as in "baked goods."

Here's one photo I can post today. Since I posted pictures of our loft space yesterday, here's a photo of the two staircases we have to climb to get up there from ground level. Hope the photo doesn't make you dizzy.

5 comments:

  1. Very pretty wood stairs and banisters.

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  2. That is a fantastic photo, Ken!
    And, lots of stairs:)

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  3. "Nuit" here seems to come from the verb "Nuire" - I hadn't heard of that before.

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  4. MERCI! You just gave me my first laugh- out - loud today! (Your number of files!) I told you I was impressed with your cateloging of images! Now I feel like I wasn't giving you ENOUGH credit!!! As for the stairs - just think how much healthier the two of you are because of all that climbing! That's looking at the bright side!

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