The town square of Narbonne at night
Dinner with our friends, Berangere, Stefan, and Gil
Jas de Bouffon -- Cezanne's home in Aix en Provence
It's all candy.
Jean-Gilles and Michael in action
Not the use the Romans intended for the Via Domitia
Maxie and Julien
Camille on the half shell
First day of school, second year
Ben's tenth
In Helsinki
Michael drinking a glass of Finnish white
Narbonne viewed from the archbishop's palace
La Robine, which runs down the centre of town
Anne and Juanita in London
Ellen and Yvan's visit
Maxime being "placqué" in rugby
One of many walks with John, Joanna, and dogs
Brussels in autumn
Some handsome kid
In the tunnels at Vimy -- this maple leaf was carved on a wall by a soldier in WWI, before the creation of the Canadian flag
Vimy -- peaceful, green, meandering memoir of loss
Max, down to something like four teeth
Dublin, fall 2008
The end of the Guinness tour
Beautiful northern Ireland
Belfast
Michael Redhill is an excellent bowler
So is Anne Simard
Trimming the vines, November 2008
Max: Mona; Mona: Max (he'd been dying to see her, his comment: she's SMALL)
This is their first visit to the Louvre ...
Champs Elysée in the late fall
Dinner at Le Cinq ... wow
Dinner at Le Petit Comptoir, Narbonne
The concentration camp at Rivesaltes, 30 minutes from us, where Jews and Gitanes were sent to deathcamps
Catherine and Naomi's visit
TRUFFLES!
Suddenly ... (Toronto, end of December 2008)
It was for a costume party, okay?
(This one ...)
Channukah at Danielle's house
Lily loves Max and Ben (or Max and Max, as she likes to say)
Dinner in Dundas with Mike and Alex
Christmas in Ottawa
Renald with friend (Julius Caesar)
Eitan and Denny renationalized
Dinner at Carmen's with my dad
New years with everyone ...
I am a lov-air, not a fight-air
Anne and Julie
"Winter" in the south of France
The Angouleme BD festival in February
Michael makes friends easily
In Puymoyen, the Simards' ancestral home
So proud of their history, they raised this terrifying sculpture
Someone's actual home
Poulet demi-deuil (Chicken in half-mourning ... why? ...)
Because you put all those truffles under its skin. Um ... yum?
In Seville
The bullfighting ring in Seville
Seville oranges ...
... VERY bitter
The mosque in Cordoba
The Alhambra
Icon in a Spanish convent
80-yr-old ceramic Studebaker ad in downtown Seville -- so beloved, they've never disturbed it
Visit from the Marmur-Kessel's in Feb 2009
Two racecar drivers
Elizabeth Marmur is an excellent bowler
So is Anthony Kessel
Jim Harrison (The Old Man and The Sea?) in March 2009
Classic Jim pose
In the garden with the Huggans
Spiderman of the Ozarks
Jean-Luc in a classic pose
The cherry tree in bloom
Back in Paris (les bateaux mouches)
Berlin's eerie Holocaust memorial
They're very welcoming in Berlin
Holocaust memorial in sidewalk out front of where this woman was taken from her home -- there are hundreds of these in the city
Berlin Wall memorial
A memorial to deported Jews
Back in Paris -- the Jardin D'Acclimitation
Julien Tort and Loic
Kersten and Loic
A walk near Lagrasse, April 2009
A painting in Rome -- how we feel about that city -- April 2009
Jeannie and Nico
At Dar Poeta -- probably the best pizza on the planet
On the Palatine Hill, above the Roman Forum
Caesar Augustus
Anne enjoying Rome ...
... and all it has to offer
Villa Borghese
Beloved Tazza D'Oro
The grey Med in May ...
But, hey, there were cherries and strawberries from the garden!
And therefor, cherry jam
Marseille, May 2009
You ask me "how many more bites" one more time, kid ...
On Ferreol, with the Chateau D'If in the background
Michael back in Toronto for the Griffins -- this was dinner in Dundas with Michael & Alex
And breakfast with the deer the next morning
The Griffin Prize (with long-missed Tara and Rebecca)
Peggy Atwood with Griffin nominee Jeramy Dodds
Cate Bush, Michael Helm, Claudia Dey and MR
Ken Babstock and Helm
The Kermesse dinner in June -- Anne with Christine
M's birthday dinner at Les Cavistes in Narbonne (the chicken is a wine decanter)
Beautiful Narbonne at night
And Venice in the daytime
John with friend in Venice, June 2009
It was the bienniel in Venice ... some great stuff
Joanna's birthday dinner
At Alex & Amy's secret swimmin' hole
Skim-boarding at Les Ayguages
A hatful of tenilles
The second-last supper with the Thiltges
We're, um, a little gone
The kids learn they're going to PortAventura amusement park for 3 days
The Tour de France on its way to Marcorignan
Last Tango in Paris -- July 2009 -- at La Grande Cascade
Versailles
At Jacques Genin with Julien and Kersten
Giant eclair, anyone?
The maitre offers me a freshly made milles-feuilles
Dubois -- possibly the best cheese store in the world
The real last supper -- at Le Dernier Metro
Maxime, le penseur, at the Rodin Museum
Learning to surf in Biarritz
The sun goes down on France ...
