Winter Arrives
Looking out the atelier window towards our frozen front garden. It was like this the whole time we were in Burgundy.
Over the holiday break in Burgundy, we had some of the most persistently cold weather we've experienced since moving to France. We not only had a white Christmas, but a white day after and day after and day after that...
Christmas morning.
We left Burgundy a week ago, with the slippery roads covered in snow and ice, arriving back to the more temperate coastal weather of St. Malo. The sun was shining and our little apartment bright and welcoming.
View out the front window of the apartment.
The sunshine was a very pleasant change.
Back window of the apartment, looking into the courtyard behind our building.
However, that situation didn't last long. We had much rain early in the week and a big storm last night that rattled the windows and kept us awake. Even inside our little protected nest we could hear the waves crashing against the walls two blocks away. It was another grande marée this week, bringing exceptionally high tides.
Waves crashing over the breakwater. Photo by Rémi Lemenicier.
Quinn leaving for school. Photo by Jos Houben.
It was a different story for James and Daniel, who spent their Christmas vacation in New Mexico with the Hoffmann family. What glorious photos they sent along!
Golden sunlight streaming, near Taos. Photo by Susan Hoffmann.
I took a little video of one of the fishing boats coming into port at high tide this week. The onshore crew unloads the scallops. A large "general cargo" freighter (i.e. not an oil tanker) from Norway sails into port in the background. We get a front row seat from our morning perch.
The crew stacks up the scallop bags so precisely. Of course they have a system, five bags per level, alternating orientation, four levels, one or two on top to stabilize the lot.
A fork-lift comes to pick up the pallets one by one and takes them to a refrigerated truck which delivers them to their destinations.
Scallops awaiting transport.
So… are you coming to New Mexico next winter?????
ReplyDeleteYes, it was cold and snowing last week and particularly in Paris and North and East of France. (In fact, Burgundy is one of the coldest place in Winter, also is Jura);.We had little snow too and a lot of people were amazing of that. I can remember when young we had snow almost every Winter and very low temperature too. In the Western area, it is rare that it lasts very long. France is a small country if you compare to the USA, but we have every different climates : oceanic, continental mediterranneen within less than 1000 km. St Malo must be spectacular this week.
ReplyDeleteSo many forms of winter beauty!
ReplyDeleteI too would immediately escape that snow YUCK! I Sacramento we had ONE MONTH of no sun whatsoever. No fun!
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