9 am walk along Le Loup

The river is turquoise and very high due to all of the rain. 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Nice in the rain.

Attempting Thanksgiving

Today, I went in search of a turkey for Thankgiving. I am hesitant to begin with as I can never seem to cook a turkey perfectly. Perhaps it's an oven temperature thing.
Anyway, 
I went to the boucher in Opio. I like the old man that owns the shop and it's just a very pretty butcher shop. It was his day off and I think the man that helped me was his son. He did not speak English...but I didn't want to speak English! He tried to get help from a girl that worked at a salon next door, but she shook her head and grinned. He was impatient. 
I told him ..NO, I don't want to speak English, I can speak French. It's not like there was anyone else waiting for his attention. There was no one there. This is why I wanted the father. So we spoke in French.
He had  9 kilo turkey that is TOO big and has been dead awhile. He wrestled it out of the vitrine and slammed it down on the scales. 9 kilo...no, I need about 5 kilo...he made a call to ( I'm guessing) a distributer? a farm?  and it was all not so clear, but then I started thinking...is the guy on the other side of the phone going to go out , seek out a turkey that looked about 5 kilo, out in the yard...and then shoot him or wring his nick...FOR ME!!!!! and my thinking expanded to...what if it's young, as it is smaller. I'm killing a young turkey. I had to stop myself from asking if they were going to murder
( tuer!) one for me! Would a turkey being living a much longer life if it wasn't for me and my selfish Thanksgiving?
I started feeling sick about it. I was already part way down this road though.....I managed to find out that it would not be free range...and thankfully, it would not have a head. 
I decided to scrap the idea of getting it from this butcher..and will try again tomorrow.


Turkey in French is dinde and it is feminine....La dinde. 
I am yearning for a butterball!...I am yearning to be many dimensions away from what actually happens before I buy a butterball turkey breast at Safeway. 
What will happen?

Many Many dogs in Cannes.

Lunch at Cave Forville, Cannes

I love this place....it's in a position right on the market. It has a lively crowd and they were playing Amy Winehouse and Jack Johnson. I had Foie Gras ( Canard) and it was excellent.

B had a beautiful pasta.  We both had Beaujolais. I would like to go back and have oysters. 

A Grey Afternoon in Cannes

I met my friend A in Cannes to go to the market. It was a very grey Saturday but it was nice to walk around the market.

Antique Market

Covered Market Forville

Coeur de Boeuf..Beef Heart

Sunset

 I followed S. in my car and he led me down to a great vantage point. This is facing west toward Nice and Antibes. It's so beautiful. He told me that there is a path that follows all along the french coast. You can walk from one side to another by there paths.

a seahorse cloud. ...or a wolf

Nice

The end of the trip

Villefranche used to be in Italy...the border was the Var river which is on the far west side of Nice, so this village ands many in the area look very Italian. 

S. and Zook ( in his coat) 

Villefranche