One of our jade plants is blooming. The flowers are tiny, less than a centimeters in diameter, with a touch of purple in the petals.
I woke up to rain again this morning. The forecast doesn't look good for the morning walk with Tasha. At least the wind has calmed down.
This photo is from back in 2013, if I'm not mistaken. And I likely could be. I didn't keep track of photos then like I do now. Not that what I do now is a better system, it's just different. At any rate, Autumn is pretty much over for this year. Just under two weeks left.
I called the doctor's office yesterday for an appointment to refill some prescriptions. I don't think prescription refills can be done over the phone in France, much less by internet. It takes an in-person office visit. I'm early, but recently it's been hard to get an appointment when I want one, which is early in the day and preferably before lunch. Imagine my surprise when the secretary offered me 08h30 on this coming Friday morning! Perfect.
In the US, prescription drugs are dispensed in bottles. The pharmacist would type out a label (old person joke: how'd he get the bottles into the typewriter?), Here in France, prescriptions come in factory produced blister packages inside shiny cardboard boxes. At no time do pharmacy hands touch the medicine.
I only think of this because I have to renew my prescriptions soon. I take two daily pills for blood pressure and cholesterol control. Other pills come and go depending on what's ailing me at the moment. All of our Rx's are covered by our health insurance program, so no cash is exchanged at the pharmacy.
The grape vine pruning is now under way out back. Two guys worked on (and finished) the parcel just outside our back gate on Friday. That's not what's in today's photo, however. This is another parcel nearby. I didn't want to take pictures of the guys working.
The house rocked with wind and rain again last night. It's relatively warm outdoors, but the house feels cold inside. We're still losing daylight. Sunrise waits until 8h27 this morning. Then at 9h00 the hunters show up out among the vines. Pheasants beware!
The fog lay thick in all of the usual places and this was the view from our deck on Friday morning. Our house sits on a high point and frequently we can have sunny skies while the river valley below is socked in. In this view from our deck, we're about halfway between socked in and clear.
We're heading into a warm spell into next week. We had spells of high wind with rain squalls over night. Lovely.
By the way, the answer to yesterday's question is: Notre Dame Cathedral at Rouen, Normandy. :)
I know the answer.
Answer: Cathédrale de Notre Dame, Rouen, Normandie.
We haven't been back to the piney woods since I took this photo a week ago. I'm not sure nothing's changed. I heard some sounds that could have been chainsaws over the past few days. Like I said, I don't want to be out there with Tasha if there's a crew working. She gets excited.
