Si vous êtes en vacances prêt de Giverny, pourquoi ne pas aller faire un tour dans la ravissante demeure qui fut celle de Claude Monet. Et quel jardin ! Claude Monet devant sa maison à Giverny Sources : Ritournelle - Pokings Mot - Secret Paris - Giverny Impressions - Wikipedia - Marcel Duchamp - Visions of Travel - Fondation Monet - Wikimedia

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The House Seen from the Rose Garden 3 - Claude Monet

This is the second installment of the author’s “Following the Heart” series, which details her journeys inspired by an encounter with Dom Bede Griffiths, the English Benedictine monk from Prinknash…

Alfred Sisley - My house at Moret [1892] Potsdam, Museum Barberini

I received a lovely note from a reader, Anita, in Australia. She made my day! She was looking for a post I had written on English gardeners. I had mentioned a book she was keen to find. She searched thru my blogs and could not find the post. Firstly, I was impressed that she went so far as to do that. There are many trials and tribulations of having five blogs, one of them is trying to remember where I posted on something. Luckily, this was an easy one to remember. I wrote the post 'Gardening Style' over at my other cashmerejeans...style. In my mind, if you collect gardening books, you must have this one. 'Garden People: Valerie Finnis and the Golden Age of Gardening by Urusla Buchan Photograph of Nancy Lancaster tending her garden, taken by Valerie Finnis. The woman behind the camera... Valerie Finnis, woman extraordinaire. Photograph by Tessa Traeger There is no doubt that Valerie Finnis was a talented photographer. "With great skill and verve, she took photographs of gardeners, gardens and plants from the mid-1950's onward, using a Rolleiflex camera given to her by a friend." "All are seen at home in their gardens, weeding, inspecting, watering and standing proudly by their plants, wearing the fashions of the day, epitomizing many aspects of life and society in the second half of the twentieth century." Lady Birley of Charleston Manor in Sussex. Cecily 'Parsley' Mure wearing silk whilst watering her alpine trough. Valerie Finnis loved gardening and her eclectic circle of contemporaries and friends that lived within that world. She left some 50,000 transparencies, taken between 1950-1990. Valerie Finnis appearing in World of Interiors magazine. If ever there were a hat to love, this has to be it! Photo beautifully taken by Jan Baldwin. I have been collecting gardening books for years. I am very excited to have this book sitting alongside the rest. I highly recommend it! American, Nancy Lancaster gardening at Haseley Court. Margery Fish of East Lambook Manor in Somerset. Valerie and her partner in life, Sir David Scott, with their pug Kate, "sitting outside The Dower House, where they lived and gardened together in great harmony." A great book for that special gardener in your life. (and it could be you) :) Images via the book, Garden People: Valerie Finnis and the Golden Age of Gardening Valerie Finnis potting around with her pug via World of Interiors magazine.

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With an Ecosystem in a Bottle Science Experiment for Elementary Students and Middle School Students and even High School Students, you will be building a terraqium column which will allow you discover the relationships between living organisms, and their environment.

exploring lourmarin Thanks to a great tip from Jean-Claude (our AirBnB host‘s husband), we decided to start our second day at the popular Lourmarin market! This market happens every Friday morning and features everything from gourmet…