Memories of summers past

It was the summer of 2003 and we had just arrived in Saint-Aignan. We were trying to do a lot of work and get completely moved into our new house before winter arrived. The problem was, it was so hot in July and August that year that the work was going very slowly. After living in chilly San Francisco for nearly 20 years, we weren't prepared for the heat wave. We didn't have air-conditioning in the new house and we didn't have AC in our rented car either. In early August, we finally found a car to buy and it did have AC. So we spent hot afternoons that summer driving around with the car's AC on full blast. This was one of our destinations. It's the Château de Montpoupon and it's less than 20 miles from Saint-Aignan.

I took this picture at Montpoupon in August 2003 — more than 20 years ago.