Our street signs are nicer than your street signs

Ours have a rose.As usual all photos taken within a two or three minute bicycle ride from my house, or, measured differently, within a half hour walk or so.

*sigh*

I'm going to miss my bike.

Today I tried yet another route through the rectangle to the four sides and came upon this bit of storm damage.My storm scene recreation is that the hollow trunk (foreground) of a double trunk tree (background) was not strong enough to carry the weight of the extremely heavy snow. When the weaker half went down it took the whole business down with it.

This early winter storm is now officially far more damaging than any summer storm in the neighborhood for at least the past dozen years or so.

No football this Friday, FC Nantes plays in le Coupe de France tomorrow. FC Nantes will be seeking its first victory in a trophy cup competition game in the past two seasons. Last year's precipitous collapse to near relegation to the 3rd division also included resounding defeats in contests played in both the League Cup and the French Cup. This year's early autumn league cup was also a defeat for Nantes. FC Nantes has drawn unluckily, having to go on the road for this contest but has drawn luckily in that they face a team from five levels below them in the hierarchy of French football. FC Nantes has not had much success of late on a professional football level. Fortunately for them the game tomorrow is not against other professional footballers, it is against amateurs, a side of eleven who all have day jobs.

Allez Nantes.