Because We Can

  Getting ready to go off on another day of exploring. Our gite may not look like much from this side but once through that gray lattice door there is nothing but one WOW! after another. The areas of the coast we have been visiting have been lowlands. Today we had our first glimpse of the coast was from a promontory. We could see a small island in the distance. Sharp eyed Linda said she could see something on it, but exactly what we couldn’t tell. Birds, just birds. Not much of a sign and not so easy to find a place to park, but it didn’t matter, we were off to see our first dolmen. A very excited Linda. So, exactly what is a dolmen? It is a prehistoric burial chamber. Large upturned flat stones form the sides, and even larger flat stones placed atop them form the roof. The size is such that by bending down, we could easily walk through them. I like to think of it as Linda being in “dead guy” heaven. As long as we were near one a huge smile never left her face, some...

  A hazy photo of our psychedelic shower. Nothing like getting up in the morning and having French pop music, ever-changing colored lights, with water raining down from above one minute and then blasting from the side the next to wake us up but good. A certain person was taking their shower when I decided to take this photo, wanting to capture the fog effect of the water in the air, and being a good spouse, I waited until said person was bent over shaving their legs before taking the picture. Putting it delicately, I seemed to have aimed the camera a little lower than intended, which necessitated the deletion of the first photo and the taking of a second one. The tide was in this morning, the still water reflecting the scene on the opposite bank and the fog giving it all a soothing softness. What an awesome place to enjoy the morning’s first cup of coffee. In the words of that now famous advertisement: Priceless. Our plans for the day called for looking for rocks. Not just a...