Looking Around

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Introducing our new Travel Log feature called Looking Around. We are all curious folks and have been saving images and interesting thoughts to share for years! Martha is going to start first because she got pretty far from home this year for the wedding of her daughter, Annie Fain, in France. All images will tell of things of fiber, color, or texture (and of sheep and other animals of course!)

Annie Fain has been looking for her feller for a long time. Little did she know that he was waiting for her across a big ocean. She met Geraud Baralon last year when she traveled around France for her self-made sabbatical. They play with Polo Burguiere and Nadine Marinelli in a hot old time Appalachian band called Ida Red, yep French oldtime! (Look for them on Youtube) Here is Annie Fain and Geraud on their wedding day. The bride wears a gown designed by her new husband of raw silk.


	This is the new flock of sheep we are now related to! Jean Paul and Beatrice Baralon, Geraud’s father and his wife, are shepherds and cheese makers. Jean Paul is getting ready for the morning milking in this photo.


		This little gray animal is Janek. Janek is a dashing smart hearding dog from the Pyrenees mountains. He’s a big help in getting all the sheep moved around for milking everyday.


		All that sheep milk gets made into delicious cheese. More about cheese making later.


	After the wedding, we kept traveling through parts of France, and then headed up to the Shetland islands, north of Scotland. We saw and did lots of great things including eating many, many yummy meals. Check out just a few of the wondeful things we got to eat and drink on our travels!


	Keep checking in for more installments of stories and photos from Martha’s travels this past summer as well as other Yarn Circler’s adventures!