Guillaume & i spend a moment people watching in the Place des Terraux

"the united states is money..."
"It's the biggest power in the world with an ass at its head..."
"70% more food on plates in American restaurants than in france..."

"with people, too"

our cheese looks like this:

"a cheese like this, you can only eat with a glass of red."
"hey there are little critters on it!"
"will you guys let me eat my cheese in peace?"
"look how fast they're walking around!  Incredible!" (Richard's magnifying glass)

This is when they're proud to be French.

Coming back from Lyon: hard to say if Felix picks up Gui Chou hitchiking, or the other way around.
"I'm going to Villevaleix to build cabins"  "Let's go then!"

Felix was an architect until Tuesday, when he came to our place to
make cob
sleep in the cabin
sell his car
and set out on foot.

"and on Saturday i like to do art projects."

kyra, ryan, sara and I took our sketchbooks and went to the Portland Art Museum, where they had an exhibit of prints involving kimonos and scenes from the upper crust.

Every once in a while, you go back to this blog, you look glumly at the same old pictures from May and you think to yourself, whatever happened to Julie?  This is what: in May Guillaume and Guillaume and Simon and I packed chainsaw, juggling clubs, electric drill and folding bike into a rickety trailer behind the BX and took off across the country to build ecohouses for people.  I had less time to draw, but the watercolors never got buried too deep in the trailer either.  Now we're busy setting up a website for our brand-new association and I'm in charge of illustrations.  Check it out: http://ardheia.free.fr
See you in Oregon in a week, and back in France in January...

Parfois, tu reviens à ce site, tu regardes sans espoir aux vieux photos de Mai et tu te demandes, qu'est-ce qui est arrivé à Julie?  C'est cela: en Mai, Guillaume, Guillaume, Simon et moi avons mis la tronçonneuse, les mallots de jonglage, la visseuse electrique et un vélo pliable dans une petite remorque derrière le BX et nous nous sommes embarqués à travers la France dans un tour d'ecoconstruction.  J'avais moins du temps à dessiner, mais les acuarelles ne se sont jamais trop enfoncés dans la remorque non plus.  Maintenant nous sommes en train de fabriquer un site Web pour notre nouvelle association, et c'est moi qui s'en charge des illustrations.  Va voir: http://ardheia.free.fr
à bientôt en Oregon, et retour en France en janvier...