Christmas in Paris

As I said yesterday (or was it the day before?) I've been trying to do some maintenance work on my photo database before the whole thing comes crashing down like a château de cartes. It was at the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic that I started losing control. I happened to notice the photos above, which are much older than that.

I enjoyed seeing them again. They brought back good memories of many Christmases past in Paris, and memories of visits from friends who were among the very first to come to see us here in Saint-Aignan. That was back in Dec. 2004, and we had been here for less than a year at that point. The visitors were our friends Evelyn and Lewis. As I admired the photos, I realized that they weren't ones that I took, but they are some that Evelyn took in Paris that Christmas. I'm trying to remember if that was the first time I ever met E. and L. face to face. I think it was. Over the years we've enjoyed spending time and seeing the sights in Paris several times, in North Carolina, in Alabama, in the Auvergne region, and in Normandy.