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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"Those huge nests belong to parrots," said my guide. "They have lived in Chicago for years and don't even go south for the winter."
When I got back to L.A. I was telling this story to a new acquaintance and he said, "You have parrots right outside your house. Hear that screeching noise-- there? That's parrots who have escaped. They're all over L.A."
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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.
When I lived in Silicon Valley 12 or 15 years ago, I was surprised one morning to see a big flock of green parrots roosting in a tree in my back yard. Haven't seen any in Saint-Aignan yet though.
Posted by: Ken B. | 16 April 2007 at 14:49
We have lots of green parrots in Antony/Sceaux too.
A lorry full of these birds had an accident on the A86 Highway some years ago => the birds fled and have been living since in the trees of the Parc the Sceaux (and in the park of my 'résidence' too). You can find some of them easily: they are right in the middle of the park, there is a big bird family living close to some huge deer statues
Posted by: nat | 16 April 2007 at 18:53