#LaBelleEpoque #1
"Nerd Bird"
A day out in the country with the missus!"Nerd Bird"
First stop, Panzoult and the Cave des Vignerons.
I bought some 2007 Pascal Brunet red and some Domaine de Beausejour rosé.
Tiphanie, the server, wanted to practise her English but since it was lunchtime she couldn't take us on the guided tour of the carved walls in the cave. The carvings depict scenes from Rabelais' Pantagruel. Every year the region's producers have a festival in the cave to showcase their wines. With the purchase of a €2.50 commemorative glass you can sample as many wines as you like.
#LaBelleEpoque #2
"Master Ashida Kim"
©2006 Charles Burns
Cover art from the Believer #2
Next, a stop in L'Île Bouchard for coffee.
We always have lunch or coffee at the little bistro by the bridge across the Vienne.
Then a walk through abandoned time to the church of Saint Gilles where the BVM appeared to some schoolgirls in 1947. Nobody appeared for us, however!
I am always intrigued by the Rue de Madagascar, an alley that isn't even vaguely pointing in the direction of Africa. Was there some connection between the town and Madagascar in colonial times?
#LaBelleEpoque #3
"Sketchbook page (detail)"
©2007 Marcel Dzama
From The Berliner Ensemble Thanks You All
We finish our day in the town that Richelieu built.
The good cardinal planned a new administrative centre for the burgeoning civi service of Louis XIV.
Four gates give access to four long streets that converge in a central plaza dominated by the church on one side and the covered market at the other. A large park outside the northern gate marks the footprint of Richelieu's personal estate. His grand chateau is long since vanished but the bureaucracy he engendered is flourishing in Brussels even as the town he built languishes in touristic decay.
The Trip to Bountiful on IMDB
Playlist:
Softly and Tenderly, Jesus is Calling
Cynthia Clawson
From the soundtrack of the movie "The Trip To Bountiful", 1985, directed by Peter Masterson
- SOFTLY AND TENDERLY
- Will L. Thompson
- Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling,
Calling for you and for me;
See, on the portals He’s waiting and watching,
Watching for you and for me.- Refrain:
Come home, come home,
You who are weary, come home;
Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling,
Calling, O sinner, come home!
- Refrain:
- Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading,
Pleading for you and for me?
Why should we linger and heed not His mercies,
Mercies for you and for me? - Time is now fleeting, the moments are passing,
Passing from you and from me;
Shadows are gathering, deathbeds are coming,
Coming for you and for me. - Oh, for the wonderful love He has promised,
Promised for you and for me!
Though we have sinned, He has mercy and pardon,
Pardon for you and for me.
2 comments:
You wrote BVM, I read BMW. I wondered why a German car would appear to French schoolgirls. It raised all sorts of interesting possibilities.
Glad to see you are Brocante-ing, drinking good wine, eating real food and enjoying yourselves. Keep the US presidential election stuff out of your heads for as long as possible.
I love your photos, keep the posts coming. XX
Thank you for your kind words.
German cars appear to French schoolgirls all the time, along with American, Japanese, and Korean cars. There is even a cult dedicated to the worship of Italian cars that appear in movies.
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