A close examination of the photo will provide information which will absolutely NOT surprise anyone who has been to France lately. That is mighty, mighty fine looking produce. I say without intending to exaggerate that the strawberries might be the best strawberries you have ever eaten in your entire life.But that was taken in 2006. It has been seen here before and those strawberries are now past their freshness date. So here is an open air market photo taken today. That's the A&W on Rice Street in Saint Paul.
It is in the open air, it is a market, commerce can be seen to be ongoing. I think it fits.It was a good day for a ride. The temperatures cooled and the wind shifted around to the prevailing northwest. I took the standard north ride, heading out to Lake Vadnais. The wildlife is still abundant out there. The white herons seem to becoming a tiny bit human acclimated as they are a little less shy than they were earlier in the summer. This one stayed fairly close to the shore despite my presence and posed.
There were at least a dozen white herons around the lake, probably at least half that number great blues, lots of cormorants, lots of ducks and still a significant population of whatever those big white birds are, I suppose pelicans. There were not many geese around today. The geese are mostly in the field next to my house. But that's another rant entirely.September 1? Well, it really isn't summer any more, is it? I usually hold out for Labor Day to declare the beginning of fall and I think I will be consistent and not yield to my first inclination of declaring today to be fall. It really isn't summer anymore either though, the air just doesn't feel quite like summer. I guess it is fammer, or sull, or something. I do know that it goes really fast from here, jackets may well be required for anything other than noonday rides within about two weeks.
There will be no FC Nantes news this week as league football is suspended in Europe for the first round of qualifying matches for Euro 2012. France will host Belarus, or as the French say, Biélorussie, on Friday. Les Bleus today lost their first game under new coach Laurent Blanc, dropping a 2-1 decision in a friendly played in Norway, or as the French say, Norvège. All 22 members of the disgraced France 2010 World Cup team were left off the roster for this first post World Cup match for Les Bleus. Even the resumption of international qualifying on Friday will not bring an "all is forgiven" for several members of the World Cup squad. Blanc has named nine of the World Cup squad to be eligible to play in the qualifier but at least three of France's biggest stars remain outside of the squad. The most notable is Nicolas Anelka, the player sent home from South Africa in disgrace. Anelka, a forward who plays his club football in England for Chelsea, was given an 18 game international ban by the French Football Federation.
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