But not an abondance of brains

It was such a pretty day here in Haute Savoie that Little S and I couldn't resist a trip into the mountains just behind our little lakeside abode. Thirty minutes in the car and we found ourselves surrounded by stunning green alpine meadows, rolling hills and those thunderously huge gray rock forms finally stripped bare of their lovely but rather boring snowy carpeting. Amazingly beautiful scenery. Absolutely and without a doubt breathtaking in every way. Okay so where are all the pictures you eagerly ask, brows raised in anticipation? Umm, well you see there was the little detail of leaving my camera on the putain kitchen counter at home, and not realizing until I passed a FIELD of sunflowers swaying majestically in front of this huge mountain face and a little farmer plowing another field just off in the distance dressed in a red sweater! I skidded to a stop, reached to my side and Mr. Olympus just wasn't there. Much cursing, and much head pounding ensued and I've beaten myself up plenty about it since three o'clock this afternoon, so you'll just have to make do with my wonderful capacity for prose and not worry about the visuals. So, to continue...

We made our way to the gorgeous expanse of the Valley of Abondance, where they are famous for their divine cheese of the same name. If there's any cheese that I can eat all by myself, growling as others approach for nibbles it's Abondance...yum-mee. I love most of the cheeses in this region but Beaufort and Abondance are out and out my top of the pops. When we got to Abondance though I realized that not only did I forget my camera and lost probably an award for the Best Nature and Landscape Photographer of the Year, but I forgot my entire purse including wallet and credit cards and driver license and hairbrush and lipstick. It wasn't a big deal but we couldn't buy cheese or ANYTHING and we just had to do stupid stuff like get out of the car and point at the rivers and trees and pretend like we had planned all this great stuff like window shopping and nature walking instead of fun stuff like shopping and gorging on cheese and photographing really pretty cows posing in hazy sunlight.

Ugh, I hate being forgetful! Okay, so next time pictures and cheese, jeez!