Travel is Enlightening and Exhausting

My husband and I are partway through our trip to France. The weather has been good up until this afternoon when "le deluge" came. We spent yesterday in Chartres ogling the cathedral and marveling at the stained glass museum. There used to be a quilt store in the town of Chartres but it is no longer there, boarded up windows with signs instead.Today we trekked to Versailles, still  home to wretched excess. French decorating has always left me cold but the size and scope of the place is incredible. The gardens are immense with music wafting through the air. Knowing the fate of the favored inhabitants made it hard to even find beauty though I am anti-monarchy and a small "r" republican.