• So you want to see Wedding Photos after Twenty one Years

    Wedding photos where are they? My wedding photos are in a small book…all eight or nine of them. You would think in an house where there is only one closet,…

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  • My Vintage Wedding Scrapbook

                         My Vintage Wedding Scrap book starts out with few photos. Twenty-one years ago on this day, French Husband and I were married under a rainstorm. I wore my Grandmother's…

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  • When it Snows in the South of France…

                                      On the rare occasion when it snows in the south of France, roads close. Schools close. Shops close. A winter wonder land appears and the day to day life…

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  • Snowing in Provence and the Garden of Eden

                                                                                                                                                                                                                             A pear, a clementine, and an apple that is what we have in our house to dine on, (oh…

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  • Creating a Bathroom 101

                                            The plumber's handshake nearly broke my hand, as I welcomed him into our home.  We talked about the details of installing a bathroom… I showed him the old claw…

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  • French Bathroom Style

                         We worked on the bathroom project. Last year, before I left for California, our bathroom was going to be reinvented. But because of family matters more pressing, the bathroom…

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  • French Husband is up to something Good

    French Husband is downstairs cooking something. I hear the wire whisk against the bowl. French Husband doesn't cook. He doesn't even like to peel a clementine. In all fairness he…

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  • Ah Ha Moment

    While waiting for a friend I sat down on the step and soaked in the sun. There on the rush-hour street, with the screeching of mopeds, the coming and going…

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  • Cucumber Gazpacho with Walnut Mint Pesto

                                              Cucumber Gazpacho with Walnut Mint Pesto. Three cucumbers stripped of their thick green coats and seeds, went skinny dipping in a bath mixed with fresh herbs of parsley,…

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  • Eggs in a Basket

    How does that saying going carrying all of one's eggs in a basket? I know it is something like that.Well, anyway, however the saying goes I am letting a few…

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