Deep in Provence, during summertime the small villages come alive with a atmosphere of old time goodness. The days are longer, the lavender is cut, the fields golden, most people take time off for vacation, tourist are abundant and…

  The house next door is shaping up, most likely it will be completed in the next three weeks. Rene is feeling better, his ribs were badly bruised but not broken, whew. The walls are plastered, and have a beautiful…

    When you are an American living in France, there are a few things that you can be sure of: 1) You will compare your adopted country to your home country. 2) You will miss home, and eventually miss the…

  The wonder of holding a wild part of nature knowing it will go on and we will never see nor know its story again. The tenderness watching French Husband care for something so small and yet so powerful. The…

  Still a baby. Feeding and teaching him how to fly … beautiful swallow (hirondelle), that is actually a European black swift (martinet noir). Tomorrow we think it will be ready to fly.    

Missing my family…  and that is just how it is when you live too far away to remedy the feeling with a quick visit. Sunflowers do it to me every time. My mom loves sunflowers, these were on her table…