Windows on the way to Hauterives:
We took val and Laura to one of our favourite places in Provence - the Abbye de Senanque, a medieval abbye with lavender fields and bee hives, monks chanting and old glass:
A statue honoring the war dead, near the kids' school:
Suze la Rousse castle, the town we stayed in for a night in Provence...
There was a pretty enigmatic photography and installation by Delphine Baily in the Catsle Suze la Rousse, including this hair piece set on a glass head and a red glove...
Castle fireplace
View out one of the magical castle windows
Joseph Cornellian window in Suze la Rousse
Our amazing appetizer at our hotel in Suze la Rousse, made by a man from Marseille - tapenade, goat cheese, garlic dressing on fresh greens, seafood empanade...
View from our hotel room's bath:
Shadow of decorative bush at the Castle of Suze la Rousse
val and Laura in Suze la Rousse, from the castle hilltop....
Here we are in Gigondas, the town of our favourite wine, where we tasted plenty and the kids rode a carousel, had ballon animals made by a clown and we hiked up the hill to see contemporary public sculpture:
Harper's necklace in Gigondas
On the way down the hill in Gigondas, Laura spotted this chef preparing eggs:
Lots of driving ...
Facteur Cheval's tomb in Hauterives:
On the way home from Hauterives:
Here I am in front of my favourite spot at the Ideal Palais, a little archway under his home that says, "1893, travaille, ordre, economie (work, order, economy)". val and Laura kept calling me comrade!
Near Hauterives...
As John Berger's writes in his Keeping a Rendezvous, brought to me by Laura, in an essay on the Ideal Palais, everytime you go, you see something else and are enveloped.....
The roofline of Facteur Cheval's house, built in honor of his daughter Alice who died at the age of 15.
One of Laura's amazing new depot vente skirts...
Our amazing picnic on the way to Provence, in a dandelion filled field near a nuclear power plant and lavendar fields. We feasted on fresh breads; apple cassis juice; Nyons olives; avocadoes; sun dried tomatoes; Saint Marcellin, Saint Felicien, Comte and goat cheeses; salami; saucisson; foie gras; clementines and almonds.....
Getting ready to hike up into Seguret...
A door in Seguret...
Guthrie as a door guard watchman in Seguret:
Magical lamp light in the Seguret morning....
Dangling photograph framed in hand curled cardboard in Seguret shop window:
These images are not in chronological order, sorry! Here was our first wine tasting in Suzienne, where we bought a case and some creme de cassis....
Kids waiting for us as we taste wines in Suzienne. Guthrie played on his DSI and Harper watched, coming in to check on us occassionally....
Followed by the main course of a small chicken with mushroom sauce, taglitelle and yummy beans (lima? broad?)
Back at home in Lyon, val with his travel journal and light shining through their new market glasses - polka dots, 6 for 2 euros!
val and Laura walking in Gigondas...
One of the folded paper stars sent from val and Laura, here on Easter morning...
Kids looking for Easter eggs
Guthrie's Easter chocolate turtle:
The amazing chocolate chicken David got for Laura and val for their Easter arrival:
Harper in her Barcelona Desigual dress in our backyard...
Harper in her Barcelona Desigual dress in our backyard...
Kids with tulips....
Typical Lyonnais graffiti on a typical door....
Canteloupes filled with Muscat Ambere Beumes de Venise, divine:
Proscuitto and melon:
Guthrie preparing to "run away" but is going to wait until next year.....
Our patio on the first real Spring day, in my new Barcelona sunglasses, Lyon depot vente (thrift shop) blouse....
Harper and Guthrie, traboule kids. Traboules can be found throughout Lyon and are passageways between courtyards and buildings that were critical to the sillweavers moving silk around and to the Resistance.....
One of the many plaques throughout Lyon commemorating the Resistance, this one near our neighborhood at Place Sathonay:
Saying goodbye:
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