Summer

Feeling like its time for holiday. Daily swims, taking care of my first (and tiny) garden, driving our new little Citroen (which has the color of pastis, my favorite apéro), having C’s parents over for 2 weeks, eating good cheese, good bread, wine, cooking fig jam late in the evening, once that there is a cool breeze calming the heat, cooking many new recipe from this book which i finally got my hands on (was back order for Europe for what seemed like forever…), taking many more polaroids, waiting for a new pola camera (most wanted sx-70), taking a picture of C enjoying is first MrFreeze, loving the light, composting, writing, painting, and slowing down.

Sending you a warm breeze from our little heaven in the Luberon!

rose

I love our ground, and I can’t seem to stop finding new angles of beauty among the olive trees and wild flowers. The sunlight is just perfect, giving each hour of the day a new shade, and i must stop myself from using all my Polaroid film at once!

This said, if you feel generous and would like to order me some film pack, click here!

Les vacances

Les vacances sont officiellement commencées. Après l’été dernier passé à Paris, je me suis dis que pour l’été 2011, je célèbrerais l’été comme le font les français, quittant tout pour un mois complet, 4 semaines de vacances. Du temps pour jouer dehors, cuisiner, manger, célébrer, profiter lentement de l’été.

‘Roidweek day 5

Last pictures for the Polaroid Week 2011… This was so much fun!

‘Roid week, day 4

I almost feel like hurting myself for missing day one of this polaroid week. Here are 2 snapshots taken earlier today, hope you are having a great week!

‘Roid week, day 3

Ok i missed monday. Mondays are always a day where i try to catch on, and slowly start engines… Never a productive day, it feels like i’m just half there. So today is day 3 of Polaroid week, here are 2 pictures snapped today.

‘Roid Week

These are some of my pictures for Polaroid week, i’m still totally hooked to this instant pleasure toy!

Été

Here is another polaroid taken last week. Summer in the south of france is hot, we can barely go out in the afternoon sun. Time for a siesta in the hamac, or inside our cool house under shades.

No accidents

Cleaning the garage, which have been filled up for the last 30 years, i discovered an old Polaroid Camera.

Not knowing how to use it, or if it was even working, i decided to play with it, ordered films (expensive films!) and 3 weeks later, here i am, completely addicted to this new toy.

Each picture is instant, and hm, expensive (a 8 pictures film is 18 Euros, that makes 2 Euros per picture!), and you have little control on how the result will be. However, the results are precious, romantic, spontaneous little slice of life, which you can hold onto, and i just love it.

Allowing it all

A few snapshots of the last weeks. We are now settled in our new house in Mérindol, near Aix en Provence, south of France. Spring is already leaving the stage to a nice summer, and we can barely realize that we are here, we made it happen, considering where we where at that time last summer, and the summer before. Whew! We can *really* make anything we want happen, that’s what we hear in our heart each morning walking around our 3000 sm ground with about 100 olive trees, our hamac, our 2 cats and our swimming pool.

We went through a lot, but nothing felt heavy – that is a major learning for me, to move through lots of changes, and keep calm and carry on!

Pictures are worth a thousand words, so here are a few.

Nature

Chris with his mom, last summer, austria.

I am experiencing a new level of love and communication with life, with nature. I love every day of it.

I hope we can soon find a nice house, a new nest, comfortable and bright, joyful and calm, surrounded by trees, mountain views, and my little growing farm (2 cats and more coming…!)

Again, there would be so much i could share here, but since i dont plan to live over an hundred years old, there are always choices i must make about how to spend my days: sitting in front of this screen, or be with the trees.

I let you guess which of these 2 options i cherish most.

2010 – 2011

I’m still here, this is still happening. I dont know if i have just been silent on this blog, or just totally absent. There would be so much to write about, so many observations, ideas, new views on life – that just the thought of having to write it all makes me feel exhausted! Right now, i just had to post this picture of me and my mom, taken last september on their first visit in europe, i think it speaks a lot about our time together.

October 2010

Autumn is there for
- hot yogi tea
- outside walks on warm and some chilly days
- crochet projects getting started
- movie nights
- and this little new sticks project witch i find really wonderful!

Hope you are having a nice start with october!