Monday, July 6, 2026

Bringing things into focus

 






Trying to bring things into focus here in our life in France is hard. I think everytime we start to get a rhythm or maybe a sense of what a regular life might be like here and how to manage it in the best way, there's some accident, illness, change of heart, or slew of immigrant paperwork to deal with. The last of these, having to do with an application for the French health system, is currently rearing its head, and I am neither stalwart or zen in the face of these complicated paperwork and bureaucratic issues. I'm bitter and eeyorish.

Plus I have soccer to watch!

But neither of these are our subject for today. This morning I was missing my zoom camera with which I used to like to take wildlife photography and nature images. But I did replace that camera with a pretty good phone camera that has a powerful zoom that I don't often fully take advantage of, probably because I am not much in the wilds here. Also, this phone camera needs a bit of AI help to get its zoom fully up to speed, not that I too much object to AI photography, as you probably know.

But today I was looking out our window as I often do, over the tiled rooftops and out to the hills ringing the city. There is a ton of interesting stuff out there! But it can be hard to see. So I decided to pull out my phone, pick a likely spot, and see what I could find out about one of these distant, history rich hilltops.

Here then are my results:
























































































































































































































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