Sigh ...

It was sunny enough when I got up to put a load of washing in. But by the time it was done, rain and wind had set in for the day -- I barely left the house. S phoned me from a mountain hut in the Ariège to say that it was a lovely day with 10 cm of fresh snow on the ground. 

So herewith my feeble effort for the day. Other than that, I'm alternating reading Lucia Berlin's A Manual for Cleaning Women (extending the pleasure by not reading all the stories one after another) with the Emily Wilson translation of the Odyssey. And I also made two fine sourdough loaves.