Arnaud

Arnaud is an architecture student - a useful person to have on a renovation team! Above, Arnaud in orange draws the chateau and explains perspective.

Champoly, Rhone-Alpes, France; Loire Dept.

Champoly is a small village of about 350 people. It lies on the eastern side of the volcanic Massif Central of France, east of Clermont-Ferrand and west of Lyon.

People Near Champoly

One can walk daily to the Post Office to buy bread...

The twins, above.
A vendor of old post cards and knives at a flea market. The area around Thiers specialized in producing knives.

Paris Views from July 2010

Montparnasse Cemetary, on the southeast side of Paris, contains graves of many artists and intellectuals. See the list on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montparnasse_Cemetery
One of our most beloved is Jacques Demy, the film director of 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg' and 'Les Demoiselles de Rochefourt.' See description at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Demy
The French man below likes to talk to people who come visit the cemetary.




Grafiti above is stylish.
Ladies even dress up to go to cinema, below.

Image above is taken around 10 pm (22:00) in front of the Cinematheque, the state-funded film society that archives movies and shows them to the public.

After Marshfield Inn. Before Europe.

Cyane and Alan are happy to have worked hard at the Marshfield Inn and Motel in Vermont. We had not yet started preparations for upcoming trip to Europe.
It took many weeks of preparations for a July to October trip to France, Switzerland & Italy.
Here is the concept itinerary for the Europe trip of 2010:

15 July: Depart JFK on Icelandair
16 - 20 July: Paris, staying at the apartment of Cyane's cousin. Alan: see movies.
21 July - 3 August: Volunteer at a historic preservation site in southern France
Organized by a French organization Rempart www.rempart.com
at Chateau d'Urfé www.chateaudurfe.com
Chateau d'Urfé is near Thiers; between Clermont-Ferrand and Lyons
It is right near the border of the Auvergne region and Rhône-Alpes
Map of site at http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=46.073231,5.910645&spn=6.768311,16.907959&z=7&msid=113669876022825790630.00048bcf2ab289d62258a

August: Bike east over Loire and Rhône rivers, past Lyons, Grenoble, Albertville
Go around Mt Blanc into the Rhône valley of Switzerland
Hike in Switzerland and visit friends`
September: Aim to do the circular loop hike around Mt Blanc, Tour de Mt Blanc
Bike down the Rhône valley to the Marseille region
October: film festival in northeastern Italy; Pordenone
Return to Paris and the United States

Images from Marshfield Inn and Motel; Vermont

Marshfield Inn and Motel

US Route 2

Plainfield, Vermont

(802)

www.marshfieldinn.com

Friends at Marshfield Inn

Martha, above, can still carry fast-growing Amos.
Robin, below, with Angus the black lab.

Marion, above, returned to the Godard College area for a reunion.

Martha and Terry, below, also had their own reunion.

Amos and Bill.

Native Plants in the Landscape Conference, Millersville

Angie Palmer, above, introduces the conference. She is the director of the conference and principal of Plants Nouveau, a plant marketing business.
The conference celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2010, below.
It is held the first week of June every year at Millersville University, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

One of the tallest and the youngest conference attendees, below.

Angie, below with FM Mooberry, founder of the conference

The conference attracts a diversity of native plant enthusiasts.

Field Trip to Mt Cuba Center for Piedmont Flora

Delighted visitors listen to talk by staff Peggy Ann Montgomery, above, on trials of cultivars of native plants.

Visit to Mt Cuba greenhouses below

Scenes from Utah Trip

Polygamy Porter is a great beer, even if it is from Park City and not southwest Utah!

Larsen's Frostop, below, in St George, Utah is right out of the Fifties.

The little girl below at Frostop, put down her purse to practice her moose shooting skills.

Alan, above, prepares for a hard day of hiking the Fairyland Trail at Bryce Canyon Nat. Park.

Below, he recovers from a hard hike and a hard trip.