Today, I had an appointment with my ophthalmologist for my yearly eye checkup; I feared that the ravages of time made an update to my eyeglass prescription necessary (as it turned out, only a minimal one). His practice is in the Rue Hoche in Vallauris, and as I walked down that street, I heard the laughter of small children. I was passing a kindergarten, and the outside wall was decorated with a mural of tiles of which today’s photo is an excerpt. It is a veritable zoo: birds, butterflies, a rabbit, a snail, mice... all done by children four and a half to five and a half years of age. The sun is shining brightly, the tree is laden with apples... only the mushrooms look like they may not be the edible kind. This mural and the laughter behind it put me in a good mood.