Where you are is where you are...
Getting anywhere, you must start from there
Breisach, Germany; Colmar,Barr, and Riquewihr, France today.
Where I live on the western edge of North America, rivers flow from north to south or from east to west. Sailing north downstream seems strange. Today’s adventures included breakfast in Breisach before crossing the border into France and exploring the town of Colmar. Colmar was the birthplace of Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, the French artist/architect who designed and supervised the building of The Statue of Liberty, France’s gift to the United to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the republic. We went to agricultural town of Riquewihr for lunch before going on to Barr for wine tasting in the Alsace region.
Along the way today I couldn’t resist pointing my camera lens at a baby stork in Colmar that seemed to be waiting at the door of an insurance office for it to open. Later in Riquewihr we had to be careful in a parking lot not to run over another more grown-up stork that sauntered slowly out of the way. I found a particularly interesting sculpture by Jean Dubuffet in a roomful of religious artifacts in a convent. I also couldn’t pass up a particularly nice old sycamore tree with the best bark I’ve seen in a long time... and it was before the wine tasting, not after. You’ll see what I mean.
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