Month: March 2017
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French Salad
In France lettuce is called, "Salade" (pronounced: Salad). And salad is called, "Salade" in French too. Let-us talk about the classic salad in Provence. First you take a lettuce and tear the leaves big. Do not, and I…
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Invitation to Spring, 250 Poems
The book with its floral jacket caught my eye. Dainty, sweet, a bit of spring on a grey day. Oh spring come on now, your teasing ways tend to make me impatient. Through my kitchen window I saw the…
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Heaven Sky Clouds Rain Sea Waves Sand Me Earth.
Cassis was under a wild wonderful wicked storm, all day long. Waking to waves crashing, thunderous, my dream said, "Westport!" though the reality laughed, "Cassis! This loud?" Opening the shutters this is what I saw: Northern California! Oh la la,…
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Provence’s Paintbrush
Pale green is the color of the leaves on the olive trees. Burnt faded orange. Limestone. Shorn wool colored facades. Defining colors in the Provencal landscape has captured my attention. Colors rich, then soften with time, a dry climate…