Rainbows
Rainbow over the rue de Dinan, photograph by Jonathan Newby, our long-time friend. We arrived back in St. Malo after two weeks at home. It was actually a little difficult to pull ourselves away from the countryside, as all the flowers in our spring garden were beginning to bloom. We departed there just as the lilac tree was filling the air with its perfume, the irises were budding up, and our clematis vine which had reached the top of the kitchen wall was only just beginning to reveal its glory. It was disappointing to think we were going to miss it all. But you can't be everywhere at once. The clematis has such beautiful, but sadly very temporary blossoms. Before leaving home last October, Rick put a protective net over our fish pond since the herons had gobbled up practically the entire lot for the last two springs. We were told that no heron would be so silly as to come anywhere near the net once he'd gotten a look at it. This turned out not to be the case. One morni...
