Stories Collected While Living in France
Sunday morning bright and early.
A crosissant in one hand, my camera, and keys in the other.
I am off to one of my favorite brocante (flea markets) in France!
Photo: Road sign on the side of the road. Firewood and ducks are on sale.
Guessing game tomorrow and trust me it is really hard!
that photo is gorgeous!
i want to frame it and hang it on my wall.
and what a perfect plan for a sunday morning 🙂
The – what are they? chickory and poppies? are beautiful – and match the sign so nicely. 🙂
(and firewood and ducks… Kind of like finding bacon and… velvet or something equally unlikely, for sale together).
‘canards à vendre’..great!i’m sure you’re having a fabulous sunday there. i recently went to the saturday ‘brocante’in st. maries…unfortunately there were no ‘canards’!!
I just think this is one of the coolest photos ever!
I’m so excited to know what you are up to! My idea of heaven.
Find lots of good treasures my darling!
Have fun.
Happy Sunday.
Love all that you post.
Love Jeanne
Every week is a treasure hunt, how exciting! have fun!
Lets go! I knew I wanted to do something fun today.
If I could only find my fairy dust I’d be there in a minute.
Darla
That photo is just beautiful. It’s a keeper for me.
The wild flowers are gorgeous!! I wish I was there!
Luck you! What a wonderful way to spend a morning!
Have fun.
Oh Corey to be off with you today would be a dream. I am looking for any way to escape packing or thinking about packing. Can’t wait to see the finds… Blessings,
Rebecca
What a great picture; I love the wildflowers. Happy hunting!
I want to come with you.
Now, if you come home with a duck, what happens? hee hee! Happy hunting! I’d like to go too, maybe a big girl-shop-eat party!
🙂
I a mthter e with you…Can you feel my presence???? Do you feel a tugging on your sleeve when you come close to certain items?? A slight whisper in your ear….hmmm well, it is MOI !
Love the photo and your blog, sounds like the perfect Sunday morning. Oh (apology in advance) but I’ve tagged you to tell us 7 intersting things about yourself.
Gosh, that’s so beautiful…what a lovely way to spend a Sunday morning. I love that photo, it makes me so nostalgic for the sud. :0)
well – I was just saying to Vermonter husband – “let’s go to the flea market today” – 15 years ago that was our first date – wonder what we’ll find there today – love your guessing games
xox – eb.
Lady! You live life!
I wish I was with you!
In spirit!
Find something fabulous! You always do!
X muah!
Ah, another lover of signs! I just posted signs that make me smile to my blog this week, I love yours – much harder for me to interpret 🙂
I’ve only just discovered your amazing blog. the photos are so cool- your sense of design is strong…. love it !!
The photo made me laugh!
“For sale: ducks, farmers”
xoxo
Look at those colors! Did you buy a duck, too?
Love those signs! I am sure they are a promise of the treasure which lay ahead!
quel humour corey !
c’est toujours un plaisir que de vous lire et de voir vos photos, qui me font sourire parfois..
A bientôt
Great photo, the view is spectacular and the signs, wow!
I look forward to seeing your photos from the flea market.
Pat
Back Porch Musings
Another fabulous photo! I had to smile, having just spent a morning treasure-hunting myself. In fact, I posted some piX about my finds that were (in part) inspired by your work! Hope you found some lovely treasures at Brocante.
You should make cards out of your pictures.
I can’t wait for the guessing game!
I wish you could take me along! I’d love to go shopping with you. The photo is fabulous with color and character. 😉
My daughter says to pick up a duck for her. She has decided to call him Bernard. Hee….Bernard le canard?
Interesting signs. I wonder how long they have been there.
Wish I was with you, except I would have three croissant in my hands…yes, I can eat three..or more…
I too went flea marketing this Sunday…though I had no croissant. Can’t wait to compare treasures!
Love love love this photo Corey! Isn’t it amazing how the colours in the signs pick up the colour of the flowers.
Did You buy anything good?
Hope the brocante held some lovely treasures! Peace, JP
The signs remind me of the ones we would see on childhood road trips to California. Thanks for the smile.
oh, lucky, lucky you..I wish I could come along……..
Take me! Take me! Take me! Well, I guess taking your camera is the next best thing! Looking forward to your photos.
Today, it struck me how you are the French “Pioneer Woman.” When I think about Ree’s blog, I think people are attracted to her celebration of the ordinary things in her life…..she makes the ordinary seem extraordinary. You, too, I think have this gift. For you, I’m sure this life you’re living seems normal, but to us who peek in, it seems charmed and charming beyond words. Ahhh, the human condition – the grass is always greener on the other side of the Atlantic!
I forget if I commented already yesterday, I sure walked by, following you to all the way on your brocante excursion. If I only could remember the loot you took home! Must have fallen out of my dream before you showed them to me.
Corey,
This is one of my all time favorite photos you’ve taken. This photo, blown up, would sell like hot cakes or as a post card from provence…
can
we come along?? we’ll behave – promise!
Corey , when do we exchange our brocantes , mine from the West to YOURS in PROVENCE .? OR MAYBE WE COULD chiner together !!!!
oh yes!
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Hi
Exchange brocantes? How about chiner together when and where?
Even the signage is wonderful in FRANCE! Love this photo:)
Love that road signage – so South of France
I LOVE this photo, Corey! I know, I know, I always write that and I always mean what I write but this photograph is gosh darn beautiful! Have you thought of selling some of your images as postcards?
Beautiful photograph Corey. A sunny day to go to the market! xo
It looks wonderful! I had to laugh about your post after this “”Oh goodie here comes that crazy American who loves to buy junk!”
I swear that when I lived in Holland, that’s what they would say. (when I lived there shabby wasn’t in at all, and no Dutch person ever bought the weird stuff I did!)
I am glad that you have the fabulous brocante markets to go to. When the weather is nice, nothing beats it!
Lidy
Oh how I envy you! I wish I were on my way to a french flea market! And are these signs really on the side of the road?!!? Is EVERYTHING beautiful in France?
What a wonderful shot! Such vibrant colours.
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