Paris in the Spring: Wednesday Wandering

We began our first full day in Paris with a short ride on the 38 bus up to Luxembourg Gardens. Here’s a photo of the bus as it’s stopping right in front of our hotel.

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After picking up …

We arrived in Paris on time and with no hassles. There was an interesting wrinkle before we deplaned, when everyone had to fill out a slip of paper with their particulars, including where they were staying. Why? In order to contact us if necessary regarding the h1n1 (swine) flu situation.

The ride in …

To bed at 2.

Up at 8.

Leave at 10:30.

Lunch, on the road, courtesy of Kreihbel’s in McPherson. Mmm, beef brisket sandwich, with extra napkins!

Airport, 1pm. Flight to Chicago boards in about an hour.

If all goes according to plan, we’ll leave Chicago around 6:30 and arrive in Paris around 9:30 Tuesday morning. (That’s …

As Sheryl put it, it was a Mother’s Day gift from nature when the cardinal and oriole posed for me late Sunday afternoon.

It wasn’t as good as the return of our apparently lost for good cockatiel, Ginger, would have been, (she flew off a few days ago and hasn’t been seen since), but we’ve been …

We say thanks.

For everything.

We heard you even when you thought we weren’t paying attention.

And we’ll never stop missing you.

We had the good fortune to see Willie Nelson in concert at the Stiefel Theater in Salina on Tuesday evening (earlier today from my perspective).

I had the even better fortune of taking a few reasonably good photos. We were in the last row of the lower balcony; great views and wonderful sound!

Willie was …

For the past two months, I’ve been consumed by a new project that involves a software product known as drupal. Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. I’m quite taken with …