origami, recital

Suzanne from Tacoma visited, engaging the boys in paper planes and origami animals,

which were positioned in the garden at the Palace of Justice.

fox & rabbits

in non-menacing pairs

 

The Euro cup is in full-swing, car horns blaring around 11pm each night as loyalists - Spain, Portugal, Germany - announce their victories.  Place de Palud had a huge Swiss flag draped in front of the Hotel de Ville.

 

Fans gather at outdoor screens for good, rowdy fun.

Jack posing alphabet shapes for Michael,after his violin recital at the Rudolf Steiner school, a very lovely rural, yet funky alternative setting north of Lausanne. A renovated old villa & beautiful grounds have been converted into offices & restaurant and a pre-K to 12 campus, reminding of something you'd find in Ithaca: utopic, experimental, quasi-spiritual vision. Steiner was a late 19th century Austrian whose school, headquartered in Switzerland, pursues anthroposophy, a kind of German Idealist higher vision of human potential into all disciplines, including "biodynamic" farming, greatly influencing organic farming in Europe. 

 "China Jack Time" - appropriately named piece &
"La Pelle Fromage"

Parting shot with Aunt Suzanne on the cathedral grounds, overlooking the lake.