#springtimeinfrance

When I was a kid, I loved walking home from grade school down what was then a country road. Today its a college campus, but in those days it was farm land backed by the distant Pioneer mountains and filled with alfalfa and clover. I loved to hear the meadowlarks and watch red winged black birds playing in that field.

While the COVID-19 confinement has proven hard for many around the world it has given me the unique opportunity to once again experience the simple wonders of springtime. I am confined in a very small village in central France but I can take short walks for exercise. A five minute walk just up the hill and onto a plateau, and I’m in pristine farm land with only a few dirt roads that meander through fields of new crops, spring lambs and isolated farm houses. No traffic, no noise, no people and suddenly I can hear the birds again and smell the lilacs in the fresh air again and re-live my childhood just a little. It inspired me to create this short video, a birds eye view of some of the places I get to walk through every day.