Outwitting a Camera

Stephane said he would look at my unpredictable, uncooperative camera with his morning cup of coffee. Feeling a bit unpredictable myself, I tried a different route to Verze. Finding the village was not a problem, but then I couldn't figure out which road led to Stephane's house. On the third road I spotted the lavoir and knew how to find Stephane from there.

(Stephane said there are only 4 roads in Verze so I was bound to find the house on the fourth try.)

There was no way to tell why the camera does what it does, so I decided a back-up would solve the problem. Stephane explained how to find the best store for electronics in Macon. I gathered my nerve and headed for the big city. 

This is poppy season and the wild poppies are everywhere. 

Enjamber means to step over something. The tall tractors straddle the vineyard rows and so they are called enjambeur. 

I had just taken a picture of a lavoir so my camera was out and ready when this fellow came down the road.

Poppies were growing around this lavoir and a frog jumped into the drinking trough as I approached. I was still on the right road following Stephane's directions without a problem.

I reached La Roche Vineuse and just had to pull over. There at the corner of a main street in town was an octagon shaped lavoir!

 

Stephane had said that the store was at a rotary on the National Highway just south of Macon. Somehow I had missed a turn and found myself on strange streets in Macon. 

Some rotary would point me in the right direction, so I wandered on. 

Eventually serendipity stepped in. I found the store, I found a clerk who spoke English, and I found an inexpensive camera. 

On my way home I stopped outside of Sologny by the lavoir that I had missed a few days earlier because my camera had died on the picture just before reaching this spot.

It was around 3 o'clock when I reached Blanot...hungry and thirsty, but delighted to have survived being lost in Macon...another adventure. 

Later I joined Elisabeth and 2 year old Annelle. We went to look at the chickens and ducks before the sky let loose with rain and thunder.