Winter 2004-2005, Marlowe in Switzerland

Dwight Peck's personal Web site

Winter 2004-2005

as life's hectic non-stop party threatens to get out of control and really exhausting

Marlowe T. Peck's visit to the old country (1)

You may not find this tangibly rewarding unless you're included here, so this is a good time for casual and random browsers to turn back before they get too caught up in the sweep and majesty of the proceedings and can't let go.

Christmas hols 2004, Marlowe forsakes her studies and leaves Dima to take care of the ferrets in Ottawa, Ont., and comes along to visit the Old Dad and walk in the forest.

Here's the village of Le Pont, on the Lac de Joux, on Christmas Day, a nice snowy one

Marlowe, three hours off the airplane, contemplates being back in Switzerland again, land of her birth and early years

Boxing Day, 26 December 2004, dinner at the Durhams as always, in Aigle, Switzerland. From right: Dr (medicine) Dante, or André; Dr (linguistics) Mercedes; Poetess Francine; background, delightful teen daughter of Nancy

Marlowe and Francine getting ready to open presents (it's Boxing Day, but Marlowe's flight was canceled and resumed the following day, so we missed Christmas per se)

Marlowe gets a big ceramic cat

Prof L. Durham, Dr. A (or D) Durham, and Francine admire Marlowe's present

Christmas for the narrator: Palm Shorts! Presumably meant for a wall decoration.

Annual Christmas photo, something like 12th in the series.

(from left) empty dress, Lisa, Francine, Cerberus

Prof Durham displays goofy boots

The Durhams' diningroom

Christmas hijinks (with Happy-Feet and wicker elephant)

Time to work off Christmas dinner food and go for a hike, and have lunch . . .

Pausing in a hike to the Fruiteries of Nyon, 27 December 2004, Lisa and Marlowe share a chicken.

Another party leads towards the Fruiteries of Nyon

Marlowe and Lisa confront a substantial wind. Lake Geneva is in the background.

The Fruiteries of Nyon, 27 December 2004 (more)

Lisa and Marlowe at the Fruiteries, which, in summer, is not so much a fruitery as, in fact, a pig farm

Winter at the pig farm

Marlowe in the Tolkien forest

Marlowe and the Old Dad, now continents apart, have much less quality time together than formerly

But we'll muddle on as best we can

Another wintry hike

Joe and Teny Pirri leading the way, 29 December, in Grand Fuey forest!

Joe, Teny, Marlowe in the forest of Grand Fuey

and descending again at twilight. That is to say, back to Grand Fuey!!!
Part two of Marlowe's brief visit awaits you.