The Clerk Manifesto

  I'll show you the pictures first for a change.  They're really both the same scene, trying to get it right, two versions if you wi...

The first game of the World Cup is over! And though I haven't seen it yet because it doesn't start for me for several minutes, I am ...

  Sometimes I wish I knew what to say about this life. Maybe it's just like regular life except fabulous vacation suddenly bursts out of...

  I think all these flowers everywhere are making me sleepy.  I think I might be in Oz. Today we went all the way out to the Port to try a m...

  The flowering tree situation in this city has gotten out of control. Since we moved here in November there has always been one kind of tre...

  Whether I watch a lot of the world cup or not is an open question. The timing of the matches (all very late for me in Europe), the quality...

  Recovering now from our resurgence of COVID, but still prone to occasional fits of coughing, we have resumed our café lifestyle. What is t...

  A full week later here I am completing my eccentric photo tour of the French mountain town of Saorge. Today's pictures will complete m...