Thursday, October 31, 2019
Plums, butterflies, and bees
I took this video of the butterflies and bees in the garden at the end of August, when they were happily enjoying the plums that were rotting after having fallen to the ground from my neighbor's plum tree. They were completely wild about the plums, and the butterflies especially flew around as though they were a bit drunk. It was fun to watch them. Of course I would have preferred that the plums would not have rotted, that they would rather have been collected and used in preserves and other food items, but it was not my call because it was not my garden. But at least they provided weeks' worth of food for the butterflies and bees.
Winter in Saint Raphael
Saint Raphael is a lovely small city on the French Riviera (also known as the Cote d' Azur or the Blue Coast ). It has a rich histor...