Category: Living in France
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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 big loving family and friends, was not taken lightly, 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 iron, rock wall and zinc cans. How does your garden…
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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 still. Smile for no reason. Look around you. Feel yourself…
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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! And most importantly A Big ROCK! (When I say big…
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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, before any of our hearts had such pleasure of being…
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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 side. Besides looking for antiques one has to be careful…