Looking out my Backdoor: Translations

Dear Kathy and Richard,

Thank you for sending the amazing photos that you take on your walking tours throughout the mountains of France. They are truly beautiful glimpses into the countryside you traverse.

I suppose you think I envy you the pleasures you experience these days. Oh, far from envy, my dear friends. While you trudge through the rain and the mud, or sunshine, on toward the next village or city where you stay the night in luxurious hotels, explore the neighborhoods via roadways built in Roman times, eat exotic foods of which I cannot even imagine, I hold to my heart pleasures o...