October 21st catch up

Sitting out on my terace looking out through the thinning fig trees, over the brown and red tile roofs and various chimneys to an incredible patch of sky—the ony part in the region it seems that is not part of the otherwise uninterrupted grayish mass above—but that is changing as I speak—the grey mass with its cooler air is displacing this strangely warm afternoon. The mountains have lost their snow. The significance of this is that I can actually see the mountains in the distance. From my little terrace (or balcony) I can see the Jura mountain range that ridges its way through Switzerland(and parts of france I think). It is not too long in comparison to others but it is gentle and sloaping at this distance and there is just enough haze between me and it that it looks like a painting- edges crisply defined—more of a sillouet than an actual massive geological formation. The light falling onto the mountins makes them look sort of orangy-brown in patches. It a striking sight agains the blue sky, with bits of white and grey underbellied clouds drifting through. These mountains are not as accessible as the Causses near C. I have made coffee with cinnamon in it and I am enjoying listening to the birds. The surprise and delight of the first time I drank the cinnamon infused coffee in our apartment (the first time I believed in the possibility of making good coffee in the percolator) that time you came to visit is always contained in these decidedly gourmet cups of coffee, so is the company we kept that day. I have been kind of withdrawn since the rainy wheatehr arrived. I have also started to plateau in my (cough cough) jobperformance (and is it ever a performance) —I need to come up with things to keep me and them interested. Action words when we return from the break I think. (infusing Action words into my daily life could be a good idea…to run, to move… although I think I almost have enough of that right now). I am sitting out here writing this because it has been so rainy and don’t know when I will get another opportunity, but really I should be …well there is always a should be…. None of this is really what I want to say.