Betsy’s Dispatch 3 Lundi 06-07-11
Every day while JP is creative, I walk around the perimeter of the bowl in which our chateau is the conductor on a raised podium and all the rest is a huge orchestra on curving risers. It is in excess of 9200 steps, which I figure is 18,000 feet which is about 3.5 miles. For all but a quarter of a mile, it is either very up or very down. The picture above is from the height of the back riser looking down into the valley at a Ferme Biologique (Organic Farm, we’re guessing) and across at our Chateau. My walk continues along the ridge this picture is taken from, right past where JP is painting and down into the bowl on a steep, skinny but public road between the house and barn of that farm, along by the greenhouses where there is a very full fruited cherry tree, to the base of the Chateau hill. I’ve seen one man working on a tractor a couple of times and heard women in the greenhouses today, but mostly it is a quiet empty landscape. Then I leave the road and cut up on a path along that ridge of trees to home. Along the way, I pass a sign “Danger! Vipers” with a cute drawing of a snake. (Not poisonous, we’re told). The other leg of the walk is on highway D91, out of sight in this photo, back up past a big winery, fields of wheat or sunflowers, up to the top of the ridge and the beautiful village of Tonnac with its church and bell tower, and back to D 33 again. JP is set up across the road from a huge field of pink alfalfa, I think.
Every day we eat bread, saucisson , olives, fresh tomatoes, cheese and WINE. Or we boil up a pot of new potatoes and make potato salad. We polished off the last of that lemonade bottle full I got at the St. Antonin market. Tasted good by the end. Au Revoir! Betsy
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