As I sit here eating my perfectly ripened summer fruits with cream, I am thinking about the sensory overload of today. We came, we saw, we smelled the lavender. We decided to pile off to Sault, the regional capital of the lavender production in the Drome, about 1-½ hours away driving through mountains on windy roads. But the drive was beautiful. As we got higher in altitude, the more lavender we saw. And we would come around a corner, and there it was! And we got out of the car to take pictures and we got hit by the aroma. Wendy picked a couple sprigs for the car and it was still smelling beautiful by the end of the day. First stop was the Sault information office, after a potty break. But I can’t deal with
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