Author: Andy Smallman

So I’ve been practicing posting from my iPad Mini. To do so, though, I’ve needed to figure out how to easily get photos from my iPhone to the mini, something I’ve accomplished with an app called Photogene.

But it’s no ordinary app (“It’s no ordinary app?” – Ok, ok…). It’s a powerhouse photo manipulator, like Photoshop Jr. or something (maybe junior junior, yodeling yim).

Just look what I did to this picture that I took as the boat slowly went through a tunnel under the center part of town last night!

Both taken on the boat as we slowly moved up & down the Erdre. As you might guess, we were talking about you both…

You wouldn’t think that I’d be that interested in photos taken on the Titantic, but this one caught my eye for some reason and I decided I should share it. Somehow, the people in the picture just look so… familiar.

I wonder what became of them. Did they make it to a lifeboat? Assuming so, what were their lives like afterward?

Perhaps they developed close friends with people from different countries, say the United States and France, and maybe one summer night in a city, say Nantes (which is in France), they went for a little boat ride. And suppose on that boat ride they spent time with their husbands and another couple, and that they sipped wine and munched on cheese and saucisson and other tasty things. Suppose that afterwards they went to a favorite restaurant along a river for dinner, and they chatted late into the night.

I can just imagine a little friendly argument breaking out over how to pay for the dinner!

I’ve gone for a 50 minute run and sat by the pool.

Oh, I’ve gone in the pool.

Oh, I’ve had a beer, too. I can’t believe I almost forgot about that.

It’s not even 6pm yet so there is still plenty more to do. Like riding a boat along the Erdre with Melinda, Frédérique, Laurent, Christine, and Bernard. There will likely be a glass or two of wine involved, and a couple of tasty treats.

In other words, it’s a tough day here in Nantes.

After Melinda and I went shopping at Beaulieu today (she found a dress to wear to Manon’s party on Saturday), we went over to Christine’s to pick up Melinda’s phone, which she’d accidentally left there last night.

To get there from Beaulieu, we rode Ligne 4 to Ligne 1, and then reconnected with Ligne 2. You might not recall, but I proposed to Ligne 2 when we lived in Nantes. And I’m pretty sure that it accepted my proposal (my tram French isn’t that great and it’s the best French I’ve got!!).

Anyway, we are due to get married soon, I think. Melinda is fine with this.

These two pictures are from our ride on Ligne 2 today.

So I’ve been texting with Chloe for the better part of the last hour. She’s home alone, not feeling well at all. Ella is off babysitting. And Melinda & I have been enjoying an aperitif with Romain.

Poor girl. I think she’s lonely.

Anyway, she said she couldn’t figure out the photo in the last entry. So to Chloe and others I present this photo, designed to give it away.

By the way, this is the place I call Bellevue Square.