Life is Like a Box of (French) Cheeses

Heaven on earth is a plate of fresh, stinky cheeses from the Pyrénées, packed in a gracefully curving box by an artisan fromager in Pau, and toted by dear friends on a haul north to Limoges. The cheeses were arranged on a wooden cutting board nestled beside faux autumn leaves and a handful of walnuts. Cards on toothpicks marked each delicious cheese (melt-in-your-mouth brebis, a block of aged comté...) The fromager wrote the type of cheese beneath cute little drawings of cows, sheep, and horned goats.