Down the road, evening (oops, nearly a month this time...)

Little Maele wears his first combinaison du travail, not the usual blue but smart dark green with white trim, perhaps because he is a commune worker's child, not a farmer's...

Down the road, evening

Wondrous: out at nearly nine, albeit scarved and gloved and hatted; two songthrushes syncopated singing; a chorus of smaller birds; Ludovic's fireplace an orange lantern; being still here, doing this.