This is the almond green shutter from the bedroom window where we stayed this weekend.
My friend Lisa invited Ladelle and I to come stay with her and go to the Brocante nearby.
How could we say no to: Lisa's cooking, her beautiful home, to be in the heart of Provence and the brocante?
I knew it was going to be love… but I didn't expect to fall in love with…
This was the view. It beats looking out into my neighbor's courtyard. When I opened the shutter and saw this I called French Husband and said, "Honey I am not coming home."
Love bite me hard…but this wasn't the main attraction to my love affair.
Outside the kitchen door was dreamy too. I felt like I was going to O.D on provencal beauty.
"Lisa," I said, "I don't like you. I really don't."
Though after she told me she takes care of the yard by herself I felt a little better…
Until I met….
Outside the living room there is a small terrace. The green monster tried to jump inside of me…But before it could Lisa said we were going to have lunch later on the terrace.
Food has a way of making everything better.
Friendship, food, provence, green shutters…. ah love take me here I am!
Lisa sets the table.
Yes, the bottle of wine is nearly empty. I don't know how that happened.
(Ladelle's photo)
Maybe because we started to have lunch inside?
Salad with beets, corn and hard boiled eggs, white wine and three pepper and tomato quiche. On Rose Willow plates.
Outside, under the blue sky, lunch on Rose Willow plates…. it was what my dreams are made of…. but what I didn't expect was what really set my heart on fire.
It was a lovely lunch, in every way…. but this is what was the icing on the cake:
Babette.
Lisa's dog.
All my life I have been terrified of dogs. Cannot even be in the same room with a dog.
The love affair started with Babette… and nothing now is the same.
Babette woke me up by jumping on my bed! I am in love with a dog, no no no with Babette.
Oh that Babette. How can i steal her? Lisa, Lisa, LISA I want your dog!
Isn't she the cutest thing ever?
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