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it's cold in Amboise

By local standards it's been quite cold recently.  That would be around the freezing point and below (the average temperature historically are around the mid-forties F).  That's probably warm by the standards of many of you so I don't expect too much sympathy.  While there's no snow in the forecast, conditions are really good for frost.

les feuilles mortes

Today's title recalls a famous French tune by the same name from the 1940's (the words are from a poem by French poet Jacques Prévert and it was first performed by Yves Montand).  In 1947 Johnny Mercer wrote English lyrics and it has become the pop/jazz standard "Autumn Leaves".

the handrail

Another recent frosty photo.  This one in the crevice of a steel handrail.  Perhaps a congealed spider's web?

looking a lot like winter

Everywhere you go.  (Still have those Christmas tunes running through my head.)  But to follow up on yesterday's post, here is what the river bank looked like that same day...  a thin layer of frost on everything and a bit foggy.

frosty days

Temperatures have been running a little below average recently, and will be for the foreseeable future.  There's been no rain or snow (darn it), but that doesn't stop the frost from accumulating when temps are below freezing.

the frosting

Not on the cake, but on the roof of the Hôtel de Ville (city hall) in Amboise at the time of one of the earlier frosts this year.

cold nights

This frosty spider web illustrates the cold nights I mentioned yesterday.