The emigrant's destiny: The foreign country has not become home, but home has become foreign.
--Alfred Polger (d. 1955), Der Emigrant und die Heimat
Emigranten-Schicksal: Die Fremde ist nicht Heimat geworden. Aber die Heimat Fremde.
Between 2007 and 2009, I lived in Los Angeles after living in Paris for many years. My Paris blog (before and after my Los Angeles sojourn) is Rue Rude.
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I don't understand people who don't look out the window on planes....
Fields of northern France in rare snow, pylons in the mist
White cliffs of Dover from the air
The Thames estuary and the Isle of Thanet, where Hengest and Horsa lived before the Saxon invasion of Britain, more than 1500 years ago
Front range of the Rockies near Kalispell, Montana and Glacier National Park
Deep canyon in the Great Basin, from 35,000 feet up
Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, in the center of the photo
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In Paris, the purest virtue is the object of the filthiest slander.
–Honoré Balzac (1799-1850), in Scènes de la vie privée
À Paris, la vertu la plus pure est l'objet des plus sales calomnies.
Annual Geminids meteor shower (shooting stars!) coming this weekend, if it's not too cloudy out at night.
I am a long time lurker of your site. Love it! Sorry to hear you left France. I will miss the stories and photos. Good luck in Cali.
Posted by: Mad WIlliam | 30 January 2007 at 19:36
Welcome to your new home. Unfortunately, you will arrive into stormy weather, with showers expected for the coming days, but the goldious blue skies will be back soon, promis! Happy settling :)
Posted by: LA Frog | 30 January 2007 at 19:42
I also pick a window seat on the plane, I don't understand the people who sit by the window and shut the screen so they can't see out!
Great pictures.
Posted by: Victoria | 30 January 2007 at 19:53
Lovely pictures. They make me so nostalgic, for the flight to California from London has some of my favourite views from a plane.
Posted by: Andrew Brown | 30 January 2007 at 22:11
Hi, i've been reading your blog about France since visiting Paris last year. Sad to hear you'll be away from Paris but looking forward at the same time to your posts in California. Best of luck and all the best
Posted by: Reve | 31 January 2007 at 02:16
Love this! A virtual plane ride from Europe to the US!
Posted by: lapagefrancaise | 31 January 2007 at 15:57
My husband and I were once flying over Iceland on a glorious clear day. The ice floes, fishing boats, rivers, and mountains were stunningly beautiful. When the Air France pursers tried to get everyone to close the shades so they could show ads and a movie, my husband refused to do so "until the view in here is better than the one down there." He must not have been the only one, because the staff delayed the movie!
Chrissoup
Posted by: | 31 January 2007 at 16:44
Bon retour en Amérique!
Posted by: Olivier de Montréal | 31 January 2007 at 20:33
Chrissoup, I am one of those people who refuses to close the window. I don't like missing London at dawn (like Peter and the Darling children flying to Neverland) or the coast of Greenland, just to see some third-rate "action movie" that anyone can rent on DVD!
Olivier, I am happy to see you are en vie yourself. When are you going to start up again? I miss your photos.
Posted by: Sedulia | 01 February 2007 at 08:26