Sunday, December 18, 2011

Holiday Greetings

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Alan and Cyane in front of mountains Piz Bernina and Piz Palü, Engadine, Switzerland The photo above shows a high point in Alan and C...

The Movie List

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72 GEMS FOR 2012 GREAT MOVIES YOU MIGHT OVERLOOK, ALL ON NETFLIX Title Year Director ...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Wonderful Old Movies: The Write-up

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Happy Holidays !! We wish you a wonderful year with a list of wonderful movies that you can enjoy in the coming months…all movies that...

Adventures with Lyme Disease, Fall 2011

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My Story Cyane was bitten by a tick while working near the woods of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia in May 2011.  The insect(s) were not o...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

Chateau d'Urfe Revisited, 2011

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This chateau in Champoly, France was built and inhabited from the 12th to the 18th centuries. Following the French Revolution it was pa...

Champoly, 2011

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 Champoly is on the northwestern side of the Rhone-Alpes region, in the Loire Department of France. It is on the extreme western slope of...

Some People of Champoly

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 Lionel, below, had a party for the whole town and friends.  That means a couple of hundred people. Fredric's father Alain came to...

Starting the Wall at Champoly Chateau d'Urfe 2011

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As in 2010, Alan and Cyane enrolled in a volunteer program through the French organization Rempart. http://www.rempart.com/ We spent two wee...

Super-Formidable: Super-Great

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The next seven posts or 'chapters' show the people who were on our volunteer Rempart team in Champoly, working on Chateau d'Urfe...

Le Gentil Homme: The Gentleman

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 Jean has fun with other people. Below, he is on the left with his roommates.  Jean and Marion on an early morning walk.  The date on the ...