Borrowed Libraries . . .

If I’d known what was awaiting me in our rental home in Bordeaux, I wouldn’t have bothered loading up my Kobo with holiday reading. Here’s a sample of the shelves, a plethora of delicious possibilities…

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Back home, in the garden . . .

Some serious weeding and trimming is needed at the home front, but the lush wildness was a welcome contrast to the ultra-urban last week of our holiday. The choisiya blooms spill rampantly into the pond by…

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A la prochaine . . . Au revoir, Paris, Hello Home

Something over 30 hours ago, we checked the closet one last time, made sure we had our passports and ticketing info handy, then left the keys in the little bamboo basket on the tiny, triangular…

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Art-ful Paris

We have visited so many museums and exhibitions in the last month: Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh (where we followed a tour guide through a great exposition on Symbolism from Van Gogh to Kandinsky). In…

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In the Garden . . . in Paris . . .

It’s finally warmed up in Paris, and everyone’s flocking to the gardens. This photo was taken earlier in the week when I could still tolerate tights; since then, the heat coaxed me into baring my…

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