Tag: french village
member name: Susan Sparkman
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February 14, 2008 05:27 PM EST --
Before I head off to bed, I just had to post these two photos of beautiful Valentine's Day treats I saw in a pâtisserie window today in Vaison la Romaine, France.
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September 05, 2008 09:57 AM EDT --
By the grace of a wonderful British neighbor and botanist, I grasped the opportunity to photograph a number of wild orchids in the countryside surounding our tiny French village. My friend . . .
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December 10, 2007 03:07 PM EST --
I originally fell in love with Kristin Espinasse's touching memoir, Words in a French Life: Lessons in Love and Language from the South of France , while standing in a Borders bookstore in . . .
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January 27, 2008 04:59 PM EST --
R euniting after a brief time apart, two lovers embrace. "Tu m'as tellement manqué," (I've missed you so much.) she whispers. He leans in to kiss her. As they part, . . .
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February 25, 2008 01:15 PM EST --
Printemps arrive! Here you see a spectacular yellow mimosa tree in bloom, as I see it on my daily . . .
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March 03, 2008 02:57 PM EST --
Each time I have published an article on Gather, telling all of you about my life in this tiny provencial village, I receive messages and comments from my Gather friends, indicating they would like to . . .
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February 09, 2008 05:49 PM EST --
I t was a dark and stormy August night....ok, so maybe it wasn't stormy, but it was dark! So dark in fact, that we huddled together carrying flashlights. As we tiptoed through Monsieur Gonfalone's . . .
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March 15, 2008 10:50 PM EDT --
In past posts on my blog and on Gather, I've mentioned my Italian voisin, Armando .
It was with Armando and his family that we traveled to Italie and spent a whirlwind . . .
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January 11, 2008 08:07 AM EST --
One day this week, while I was surfing the net, I had the good fortune to discover a great recipe for Tarte à la Tomate , through a link on Kristin Espinasse's French Word a Day . . .
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February 07, 2008 11:33 AM EST --
Tuesday was Mardi Gras , literally "fat Tuesday." This was the last day before le Carême ( Lent ) began: Forty days of wandering through the desert of introspection, with a hope . . .
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February 18, 2008 07:14 PM EST --
Early Friday morning we loaded into Armando's voiture avec remorque vide (car with trailer attached and empty), for our weekend voyage en Italie . The six of us, Armando, . . .
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February 21, 2008 12:05 PM EST --
A s I reported on Monday, Friday drew to a close with champagne, courtesy of Olivier, celebrating my birthday! We stayed the night in comfortable beachfront bungalows . . .
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January 11, 2008 10:28 AM EST --
One day this week, while I was surfing the net, I had the good fortune to discover a great recipe for Tarte à la Tomate , through a link on Kristin Espinasse's French Word a Day . . .
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