11 August 2009

Ste. Agnès: Fête de Lavande - the Baby Donkey

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Meet 4-day old Lavandin and her mother, Gaby. As you can see in the notice, Lavandin was conceived during the Fête de Lavande 2008 and was born 4 days before the Fête de Lavande 2009.

In the lower photo you see a stall just behind Lavandin and Gaby - yes, it's the one selling the donkey sausages...

17 comments:

maria said...

This little guy is adorable! Let's just not think about the whereabouts of his long lost relatives....... :)

Olivier said...

ils sont mignons tous les deux, belle photo d'amour.

spacedlaw said...

Noooo, not the donkey sausages!
He is so cute (I love donkeys).

Dina said...

What a sweetie!

I've been the "midwife" for several donkey births and there is nothing more wonderful and touching.

brattcat said...

I had no idea the gestation period for donkeys was so long. This little guy was definitely worth the wait. But oh, please don't let his fate be linked with the sausage maker next door.

Traveler said...

He's so sweet!

Kate said...

Ahhhhhh!

Lucia said...

He's adorable, Donkey Sausages....NOOOOOOOOOOO...that's horrible!

Dan J. said...

She is so cute. I don't know that I have ever come across a dinkey "colt" before (don't know what you actually call the baby)

Maybe it's the culture I live in..... but I do know for certain..... there would be NO donkey sausages.

Very nice, albeit, emotionally conflicting capture.

Paty said...

cute!

Yoork said...

Oh, she's so adorable and soft and fuzzy looking!

Donkey sausages for sale next to the cute donkey baby. Somewhat morbid, I know.

There's a steak restaurant chain here in Canada, called "le Bifteque." I always thought it was so morbid how they had cows out front.

marley said...

Cute donkeys! Shame about the sausages though!

Nadege said...

Even though I was born in France, I have never heard of donkey sausage. Maybe it is a specialty of that region? Do they have them in Italy too? I might actually check it out on Google search. This little "anon" is soooo cute!

Babooshka said...

I actually squealed when I saw this little cutie. The eye and the tilt of the head are just so sweet. I will ignore the donkey sausages though.

Nadege said...

Jilly, I had to go on AOL France to search for "saucisson d'ane". I am wondering if it actually exists or if it is a hoax. In Corsica they make those sausages for tourists but "apparently" there is no donkey in them. Je crois que c'est une blague.

Jilly said...

Nadege, unfortunately I can't check up as the Fete is over. If I see this same stall again at another fete, which is possible. Perhaps next year, I'll double check. But I can't believe it's for tourists. I've not seen 'ana' before as a saucisson so perhaps they simply had an old donkey who died and decided to make her into donkey sausage.

Karen said...

Ohhh, I love donkeys and had two of them once upon a time. The baby is adorable but to think of it winding up as a sausage is awful. I hate the idea of eating something that had a face like that.

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