French Efficiency (l'efficacité française)

I'm not sure if anyone's ever noticed this...but a few years ago they built a new retirement home, here in St. Pierre de Maillé. They could have been a little more tactful.

Streetlight. That's It.

Water Lilies out by the Swing

Monet who?

Road Trip to Montmorillon, Playing with Hipstamatic iPhone app

Church in Montmorillon

Ed/Liz on the street

Don't Swim Here

or Here

Chateau in Montmorillon

View From the Bridge

I've posted pictures of the bridge here before, but here's the view from the bridge.

La Distillerie

Went to a jazz concert at La Distillerie tonite. It's an old alcohol distillerie that the Germans used to convert beet sugar to ethanol for their tanks in WWII. It's an event space now, right here in St. Pierre de Maillé. And very cool. This is a metal sculpture in the courtyard, taken with my new toy, the Hipstamatic app for iPhone. Yes, I know.

Shepherd Moon

...What are you doing, moon, up in the sky?...The shepherd's life is like your life. He rises at first light and moves his flock across the field. Then, weary, he rests at evening and hopes for nothing more....

Came across that in "2666" by Robert Bolano, which I'm reading right now. And tonite's a full moon.