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In wine growing countries the fall is a time of great excitement as the grapes approach the time for harvesting. Each bunch of grapes swells with juice produced from the long summer days of sunshine and rain. The vineyard owner watches the grapes carefully to be ready for that…
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Since medieval times European farmers have pollarded their trees. That means cut all the branches off and leave stubs. They harvested tops of their trees for fodder and for the wood. The tree looks nude and if one can give it a human emotion, forlorn. Sounds terrible but come the spring the…
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We rarely think about stairs. We run up and down them and pay little attention to them. But when we encounter a stone staircase in a 12th century building we do stop to notice how different they are from the ones we are used to seeing. The staircase in the picture is…
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One of the things that’s the most fun to do in foreign countries is experiment with food. Most of us will try things we’d likely only raise an eyebrow to at home. In most of America we have a limited amount of different kinds of sausage. You’ve got hot and mild, breakfast and…
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There is a saying – The rain falls on everyone – and I might add, even in Paris! Paris café photo by Patrice Goham, © 2012. Thanks Patrice!
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