Pauses by Joux, Taize, and Cluny

By the road in Joux, I noticed this old lavoir...

We visited a cooperative in Taize that specializes in fruit. I bought some fruit candies, applesauce, and mango sorbet. Elisabeth bought fresh rhubarb to use in preserves. 

We stopped to take a picture of these pink and yellow roses.

By the way, if you haven't already figured this out, Elisabeth has a red car. Parts of it keep sneaking into my pictures!

Then Elisabeth pointed out the church...

Poppies are in bloom along the roads and this grouping was asking to be caught on camera...

Not only is there a shoe maker in Lys, but also a sculptor of metal. 

The picture of his metal tree does double duty. That's a lavoir in the background.

Every time we drive into Cluny from Blanot, which is almost every time we get into a car, we pass over the Grosne River. This time I was a passenger and we had to wait for traffic to go by. There are steps at the far end of the walkway that I'd never noticed before. Grosne is pronounced Groan!

Cluny has become an equestrian center. One field along the main road is called the nursery and today the reason for its name became apparent. The foals looked absolutely huggable...