A lemon pastry the night before we left Lyon for Chatenay to visit Corinne in her magical hillside village of Chatenay in Burgundy country....
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The kids' cool architecural robot figures....
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Harper in front of her self-portrait that we did by tracing her and filling it in on the day I kept her home from school to recuperate after being bitten by a classmate!
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Guthrie blowing dandelions in Chatenay....
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The kids blowing dandelions and making lots of wishes....
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Trees at Corinne's recycling site...In case you can't tell, it is still VERY COLD here and wintery. Tres bizarre....
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View from Corinne's "attic" skylight. The attic is a huge space that is my dream studio space. It is where we sleep at the top of steep stairs in the quietest night.....
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An old fence post outside of Corinne's house:
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A circle of some straw-like material on the attic ping-pong table:
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A peony we brought from Lyon on Corinne's kitchen window:
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The path leading up to Corinne's house -
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Orange juice on the rusty table in the front yard -
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One of Corinne's chickens (or is this a rooster?). Absolutely the BEST eggs ever -
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Driving to a market in a nearby town through winding switchback country roads, passing crucifixes, goats, sheep, cows, horses, ponies, geese, ducks, farms and signs for OEUFS -
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One of many "nature mortes"/still lives in Corinne's magical home. This is a photograph of her in the wooden box frame -
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The sugar tin:
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The lizard-salamander-beetle-dragonfly-yellow-jacket-tadpole catching net we bought for Guthrie at the market, in front of Corinne's house:
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The amazing Mont D'or fondue (a whole wheel of Mont D'or baked in the oven in its wooden box) served with smoked ham, sausage and potatoes...
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We feasted on such delicious and healthy food at Corinne's, as always. Here is one of our lunches - rustic pizza, salad, bread, wine....
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Looking through a glassless window from the dining room into the kitchen, a readymade still life:
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And at another time -
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Guthrie found a mole and was so very excited! He - the mole - ended up burrowing his way back into the ground in no time!
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Harper with one of the goats that provided the milk for the most amazing goat cheese. Corinne;s neighbor, a strong and happy woman, sells fresh milk and goat cheese from her kitchen. The goat cheese is in 3 stages - super soft and fresh (delicious with creme fraiche and brown sugar), demi-sec (half dry) and super dry.....
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The goat cheese cages outside....
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Guthrie with the farmer's dog Bell -
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The farmer's hose -
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Guthrie spinning the sharpening wheel in Corinne's front yard -
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Handsome David reminding me of a Casper David Freidrich painting -
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A detail from the landing window at the bottom of the attic stairs
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A line in the sky. "But no," says Guthrie. "It's a wire!"
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Harper in oversized boots to go into the pond to catch lizards. Of course she fell in and was completely drenched within minutes....
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Typical Chatenay countryside -
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These are the famous Charolais cows that are grass fed and from which the "best steaks" are made. They seem very happy to me.
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Guthrie must have said "This is the best day of my life" 5 times in Chatenay. Here is one bug collection....
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Harper and Guthrie making a fairy house. They have made these in England, Germany, North Carolina, Japan and now France -
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The kids in daddy David's leather jacket...
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Here is Corinne!
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The bread basket hovering above one of my favourite floors -
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Another incredible meal of white asparagus served with homemade mayonnaise and a cucumber salad with creme fraiche...
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The asparagus peel in the compost tub on the windowsill -
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An achor on the radiator. We have one of these in NC that we found in Saint Marie de la Maires in the Camargue (Mediterranean France)
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One of the many lizards caught by Guthrie. All of them were released back into the pond but he cried when he did it. He is now working on a poem in the shape of a lizard for a school poem.
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Corinne took me to the nearby Museum of the Demarcation Line which was pretty boring, but it had some noteworthy things like this map of the German invasion -
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And this image of children looking up at a bomber plane -
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And this unbelievable sign about recognizing Jewish traits -
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And this fantastic (so contemporary) icon of the Allied Forces smashing Fascism -
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The museum was across the railroad tracks from this closed down Mine Factory:
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The public restrooms in the town of La Clayette -
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A hat shop window in La Clayette. Pictures like are always in hommage to Atget:
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