• Broken Flowers

    Porcelain Flowers                                          With painted on petals. Yester years memories Broken Chipped and cracked, Wilted leaves, Blooms…

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  • Passage of Time

    Crossing the threshold from Willows California to Marseille France was not easy. Even though I was in love, and starting the journey of married life with a Frenchman, leaving my…

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  • Fleur de Lys grow in France

    Iron rods with Fleur de Lys make interesting tough flowers in the winter time. The zinc jugs haven’t held anything this solid before. I like the colors of the rusty…

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  • Take time to Smile

    French Garden Bench. Hand made. The weekend is upon us. The time to relax is here. Come and sit down. Take a thought and a moment and time to be…

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  • Louie Louie and the Art of Louis 16th

         Louis 16th Sofa leg, without a ribbon around its knee. The real thing. It hasn’t exercised in years! Whatever is its secret! The leg is steady on its…

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  • Dream on Diamond

    My birth-day will be in a few weeks. Every year my husband and children ask me what I would like…each year I say the same thing… A House! A Car!…

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  • Love Letters

    Antique French Love Letters, inked on paper with a quill, tender thoughts from a man to his woman, his heart expressed like many unfolded pages, in perfect script dated 1769,…

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  • Brocante in France

    The best Brocante market, upper-scale flea market, is in a cow pasture. Those two words don’t seem to go together, but there they are brocante and cow pasture, side by…

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  • Living with a Frenchman

    Yann and I went hiking in the calanques, (the rough coast line between Cassis and Marseille,) our starting point a charming obscure little port called, Morgiou. Yann told me to…

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  • Living with a French man

    My idea of exercise is vacuuming the house. My idea of sport is dancing. Yann’s idea of exercise and sport is anything that involves high risk and the sensation of…

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