Vadogrescue

I'm completely obsessed with swans. Whenever I spot one I become a stalker, walking along the water trying to get to the best vantage point to get a picture. I don't usually see them on the small waterways around the Citadel, but I do see them on the Deule and some canal remnants around town. They are often paired up but I can't tell the males from the females. 

I hate the stress and agony of an election, but it's worth it on the relatively rare occasion that they turn out well, like this one. We awoke at 2:00 a.m. Clay got up and watched the results on television. I stayed in bed, hoping for the best but I had long since given up expecting it. We're obviously elated, but also realistic. Until Trump himself is removed and replaced wi...

We are back from a week in New York. Clay's mother, Berta, had her 90th birthday last week and the college where she worked (Bryant University in Rhode Island) held a celebration for her. Many of her former students (she worked as an advisor) came in from all over to share memories and say thank you. She had established a scholarship at Bryant that has now been running for ma...

Since we've been back from London we saw a play at the Theatre de Nord ("Le Cid"), a rugby match, the Lille Street Food Festival, a performance of the Lille Symphony Orchestra ("The Rites of Spring"), an opera (Handel's "Alcina"), a showing of the film "Paris is Burning" (not about Paris), an afternoon piano/oboe concert at the opera house, a virtual reality show about the as...