Photo: Deux petits escargots, Ménerbes, Provence, July 2018

“HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come,Whispering 'it will be happier'...”

― Alfred Lord Tennyson

Welcome to a short audio post in which I wish you all a very happy New Year, and take you to a warm summer evening in 2018 in the south of France to hear the evening chorus of the cicadas.

Happy New Year!

— Leland

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