European starling, the same bird we see everywhere back home. Note the spots, which distinguishes it from the Spotless starlings we just saw in Spain.

Hi,
Proust was my companion on many tours. Reading his glorious prose, in French of course, was a nightly ritual in the tent until the light faded enough to make reading difficult. I wonder if they serve tea and madelines in the cafe?
Cheers,
Keith

I had no idea there was a Beauce in France too!

We only saw this fascinating explanation today, 5 days later. It is an interesting and different, from North America, method of financing maintenance and repairs.

Not this time, but we did get a fruit bread which was truly wonderful.

I hope you bought one of these!

Thanks for refreshing our memories of the Chagall stained glass. Just so beautiful.

Its a herd of “Grampies”. Very seldom captured on film. A very rare species!

Same here.

Besides, I always feel this sort of thing in France is just a suggestion.

I’m with Bill. The shame of it is that I worked in a lab where one of the major diseases of sorghum was first isolated.

Great picture! I’ve never managed to get close enough to one on shore to see it’s feet.

I have yet to be able to figure out how to tell sorghum from millet... They are different though.

https://pediaa.com/what-is-the-difference-between-millet-and-sorghum/

Looks like aspen... But maybe it was imported?

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/54840-Populus-tremuloides

Looks like aspen...