des petits details

**Lovers at train**
We saw this couple at the train station in Marseille in the midst of a very tearful goodbye. The man was standing on the train and the woman was on the platform, gripping onto him. Kisses and kisses and kisses. Soft whispers in French...she looks horribly sad as the closing door cuts them off. The man, on our train headed toward Istres, looks around with a sigh for a seat.

Wow, surely they are two lovers leaving each other forever...

And then, the next day... two lovers at the train, saying goodbye again. The same lovers, the same tearful, dramatic parting.

Do they do this every day?


**Woman who knits in downtown Istres**
She sits on a bench, under the trees, and she uses yellow yarn.


**Our Bus Driver**
Vous vous habillez comme des vielles, he says! I dress like an old woman??? Okay that's it, next week, I'm using my cane.

"Les femmes—c’est la cinema."


**Birds like leaves**
When you take the train from Istres to Marseille, there is a flock of birds that swirls in the air as you arrive.


**Bats**
There are BATS here.


**Sun/light**
Like the wind, the sun gets into everything here. It is strong and hot. Kind of burns your eyes in the morning and sunset. Shadow takes on a whole new meaning.


**Old woman talking from window down to woman on stoop**
This was in the old neighborhood in Marseille, with winding roads and potted flowers outside each window. One woman was leaning out of her window and talking ot another sitting below.



**Istres**
I think I am getting better at pronouncing this.