Provencal Summer Ware

 

 

 

 

Provencal Summer Ware

The lavender is beginning to bloom in our garden.

That means Valensole, the area where the lavender fields are that I love to visit, is budding. We are about two weeks ahead. The best time to see the lavender fields is around the end of June or early July, but this year it looks like it will be earlier. It is the prettiest when the buds are fully bloomed. That is when the color and fragrance is the most vivid.

Everything you wanted to know about visiting the Lavender fields.

 

 

Provencal Summer Ware

 

 I am planning our next Experience in September. I would like to repeat the same things we did, but the other options are also wonderful. Surely, we will return to Mo's studio Reves d'Argile, have a drink in the gardens of Picasso's lover's home, and hit several brocantes or a hundred, More sounds better to me, but I am not the only one going.

If you were coming to the Experience, what would you hope to see or do?

 

Provencal Summer Ware

 

French lard pots, 1800 to 1900s confit pots speak Provence. I cannot stop collecting them. The more I see of them, the more charming their appeal. Various sizes, always in green and yellow, though the blue and white ones, especially the white ones, I cannot part with. They are harder to find, and they stay inside my home.

 

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The straw, wicker, basket-covered bonbons… oh my, I could not pass this one up, could you? If you say yes, don't tell me.

 

Provencal Summer Ware

 

Provencal summer ware. This is why I do not have any new clothes… how can I go clothes shopping if there is a brocante in town?

 

 



Comments

11 responses to “Provencal Summer Ware”

  1. for me the 100 brocantes sound like an experience worth having….otherwise I would just want to walk in nature – sleep in one of those bedrooms in Lacoste and take all my meals outside-while talking with you and other guests …. but it all sounds so delightful-I guess I’d be up for anything but especially the brocantes!

  2. Laurie SF

    Peruse the open markets and cook right alongside you. Cooking lessons! Hike, walk, stroll. A swim in the Mediterranean. Museums, art studios. Conversational French. Language lessons from your French Husband. Participate in a harvest. Sip wine from a local grower. Bicycle ride. Pastries. A pastry tour.
    And of course all the other wonderful activities you have planned.
    My heart is telling me to go..

  3. Rebecca from the pacific northwest

    “If you were coming to the French Muse experience what would you hope to see or do?”
    Eat.
    Drink.
    Look.
    Laugh.
    (not much help but it’s true)

  4. I would like a basic French language lesson and I would like a cooking lesson-maybe from your Belle Mere, her chocolate mousse or some other yummy, simple yet divine dish. Or maybe go to a food market and then go home and make a typical dish. Or-a cheese store, cheese tasting!

  5. The ceramic jugs are just gorgeous!
    How I would love seeing the fields of lavender.

  6. Dianne D

    Brocantes, shopping, and walking the streets of villages.

  7. Just imagine:
    Shopping bare, hiding among the summer wares.

  8. Your French Muse experience looks fabulous!
    What a brill idea.
    Bravo

  9. I’m with Rebecca! : )

  10. It seems that you have thought out the muse experience very well. For me, I would want my camera at my side to shoot my way through the week. Some time to just sit and contemplate being in France and absorbing the wonder of that. Visit the local markets and just enjoy all the colors, flavors, history, etc. along with like minded people.
    I would love to join you and trying to find a way.

  11. lizzie briskin

    corey–I’m a bit late in answering but I LOVE walking thru “house museums” and imagining what it was actually like living in other times. like giverny. and I hope to be one of the lucky ones in sept. merci madame, lizzieB

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