We’re busy exploring new paths in our area.  Here is our village from perhaps its most traditional perspective: the church, the chateau and an old farm building.  I had never seen this view before.  Ours is a very spread out community which is traditional for this area, with many outlying hamlets and isolated farms several miles away from these focal points.  The latest mayor seems to be into development at all costs, and has allowed an ugly smear of new sun-catching dormitory houses to spring up in the prairie between the chateau and the church.  I haven’t really figured out why.  Fortunately, a lot of the terrain around here is just too steep to build on.