Background: Moonrise Over Nice

In late summer the sun paints the Cote d’Azur every morning and evening with a mellow red light. It makes your eye linger over the landscape and wish that there were just a couple of clouds to catch that red light, but of course there rarely are.

[...] 2004, I spent a very bohemian month studying French in beautiful Nice. This week I spent a few short hard working days there, and it was a wholly different [...]