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 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.  
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All rights reserved, all wrongs avenged. Posted 25 March 2005, revised 2 October 2008.
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