A Walk in the Country

It snowed this Saturday!  I woke up and there were big flakes coming down, which I wasn't expecting at all.  It continued for close to an hour, but nothing stuck.  It warmed up enough that afternoon for a country walk with Francoise and Lucien, the French couple that I stayed with my first week in France.  I enjoy their company because I learn more French in two hours with them than I do all other days combined.  They're great about explaining interesting things or telling me what things are called; Francoise takes English classes and likes to practice with me, so it's a two-way vocab-exchange.

20 minutes outside of Toulouse, you find yourself in the typical landscape of the Lauragais region: rolling hills and fields:

We passed a llama farm:

The best part = the view: on certain days we can see the Pyrenees, a whole range of snowy mountains 80 miles away, but that look so much closer.  My camera can't capture it; you can barely see them in this picture, but in real life they were magnificent.

Last month I posted a link to a video of another outting with Francoise and Lucien, when we stayed in a rural village, at Francoise's mother's house.  I don't know if the link worked so here's the video again, if you missed it.  It was a hike in the Pyrenees: