Photographs from our time living in France
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Oct 9, 2005 The cows returning from high pasture in the Jura Mountains.


Oct 25, 2005 A typical sunrise?  We wish.


Oct 25, 2005 The view on a Mt. Blanc Day


Nov 4, 2005  The Atlas experiment then


Nov 5, 2005 Fete de St. Martin - a wine-tasting day in Peissy, Switz.


Nov 5, 2005  Another view


Nov 6, 2005  L'Ecluse - where the Rhone cuts through the mountains


Nov 6, 2005  From a bridge in Upper St. Claude in the Jura Mts.


Nov 6, 2005  "The Gendarme's Chapeau"-an anticlinal in the Jura


Nov 19, 2005 Window shopping at Fauchon's in Paris


Dec 23, 2005 The Pont du Gard - a Roman aqueduct over the Gard River


Dec 23, 2005 Carcassonne Castle


Dec 26, 2005 Inhabitant of the bird sanctuary in the Camargue in Provence. It's the delta of the Rhone as it enters the Mediterranean.


Dec 26, 2005  More residents

They are noisy.


Dec 26, 2005  A santon village at Christmas in Stes- Maries-de-la-Mer  (Santons are miniatures first made for home altars when the Revolution closed the churches.)


Dec 29, 2005  Matt and Jeff in front of the Einstein exhibit in Berne


Jan 16, 2006  The core of the Atlas Experiment filling up


Feb 4, 2006  The Rodin Museum in Paris with Peggy and John


Feb 5, 2006 Royal effigies in St. Denis Cathedral in Paris


Mar 11, 2006  Carnaval in Geneva


Apr 30, 2006  The Roche de Solutre, an outcropping in Burgundy


May 26, 2006  Another sunrise


May 28, 2006  At work in the garden


Jun 3, 2006  Beaune's famous Hotel Dieu, a medieval hospital in Burgundy


Jun 3, 2006  Inside the hospital with Ellen and Frank


Jun 3, 2006  A square in Beaune


Jun 8, 2006  Cherry picking with the Gans 


Jun 16, 2006  A Tile Cal party chez nous


Jul 16, 2006  A flamboyant gothic monument in the museum in Dijon

 


Jul 16, 2006  Matt and Ed at the Botanic Gardens in Geneva


Jul 16, 2006  A plaque in honor of the father of hydrology, Henry Darcy, in a park named for him in Dijon in Burgundy


Jul 16, 2006  The canal in Dijon

 


Jul 16, 2006  The lock keeper closing the lock


Jul 23, 2006  A view from Gruyere in Switzerland


Jul 23, 2006  Scene from the chateau at Gruyere


Aug 1, 2006  Dinner at Trois Ponts French school as the chef cuts the cheese


Aug 2, 2006  A bee


Aug 4, 2006  A moth that looks like a hummingbird, long probiscus and all


Aug 5, 2006  Street in Charlieu, a French village near Roanne


Aug 5, 2006  Vineyards in Beaujolais


Aug 5, 2006  Vine tending machine

 


Aug 18, 2006  The Rhone Valley from Fort L'Ecluse


Aug 18, 2006  A closer view of the Rhone


Aug 18, 2006  Watching the cows come home in Leaz


Aug 20, 2006  View from the Schilthorn in the Alps in Switzerland

 


Aug 20, 2006  On Schilthorn -  Leave those spiked heels at home. Larry, Kesley, Noelle, and Dylan take note.


Aug 22, 2006  More Gruyere country


Aug 22, 2006  The gardens at Gruyere Castle


Aug 22, 2006  From the other side of the Castle


Sep 24, 2006  The Roman Theater in Lyon


Sep 24, 2006  Yet another charming medievel French village - Perouge near Lyon


Sep 24, 2006  With the Van Curas and Simonsons in Perouge


Sep 25, 2006  Another section for the center of the Atlas experiment shot through a mesh net


Oct 29, 2006  The elephant fountain to honor the military officer from Chambery who saved the Taj Mahal


Dec 10 2006  The bonfire in St. Peter's Square in Geneva at the annual Escalade celebration celebrating the defeat of the Duke of Savoy's army in 1602. 

 


Matt and Sarah at work demonstrating a physics concept

 
Jeff's almost built kit car