tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39020014158136882672024-03-06T21:03:09.172+01:00PARFUM DE LAVANDEAirellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.comBlogger119125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-78766372433156534312011-10-06T01:02:00.001+02:002011-10-06T10:58:36.964+02:00DISTILLATION<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKsK6cNi8cZE0BZTDezWrBC7TvuTvICEZ7MmHjIDmLxhIZDCnI1buS0yq2qaP01paqWBWj2DxmTXFfI8I483ZVpkl4Yvvkbi_L1wuNRZA_A5K99ZxMjpTo-KclHVgFBwKhRhenZy8pPjbk/s1600/Photo+0806.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300px" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKsK6cNi8cZE0BZTDezWrBC7TvuTvICEZ7MmHjIDmLxhIZDCnI1buS0yq2qaP01paqWBWj2DxmTXFfI8I483ZVpkl4Yvvkbi_L1wuNRZA_A5K99ZxMjpTo-KclHVgFBwKhRhenZy8pPjbk/s400/Photo+0806.jpg" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Beneath you can read the excellent text of my host blogger Deborah Lawrenson on the lavendar distillation of the olden times. Today we went to visit some modern day installations.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">First we saw The <em><strong>Rosan</strong></em> cooperative distillery. They distill mostly lavender and some salvia, the major productions of the region. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The proportions are quite impressive.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Today it is possible to distill the lavender directly in the ben where it is put in the fields and brought to the distillery.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">After the cooperative we went to a more traditional farm (if interested, you can find them <a href="http://www.riviere-des-aromes.fr/">here</a> on the net) where they produce plants, gather wild plants and distill them.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">They have two alembics, one in copper, the other in stainless steel. It depends on the material to distill which one they use. They have a large range of essential oils and floral waters.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<em>ps. Don't forget to enter the giveaway beneath if you haven't yet!</em></div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-53099788588035712872011-09-29T23:33:00.001+02:002011-09-30T00:13:43.543+02:00SOME NEWS AND A GREAT GIVEAWAY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqf6ltU-xDLBTRNoxO_ZGENO_nAQneyr6rxwxArQrY6c9rtZJGnSJNXxMoQrbLD_c-SaGSMNjpCVF6bKXtyA1dkAcVLE5iYFUV_mI1rHOkH9iy6KS7zMJJWZFkuGQXxa74YvfA_YeZZ2Hu/s1600/IMG_3375.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqf6ltU-xDLBTRNoxO_ZGENO_nAQneyr6rxwxArQrY6c9rtZJGnSJNXxMoQrbLD_c-SaGSMNjpCVF6bKXtyA1dkAcVLE5iYFUV_mI1rHOkH9iy6KS7zMJJWZFkuGQXxa74YvfA_YeZZ2Hu/s400/IMG_3375.JPG" width="266px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I have great news today, « <em>super nouvelles</em> ». In plural !</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To begin with I think I’ve located a piece of land I could start my little farm on. It’s not big but the most lovely, lushious prairie, allmost too pretty to be turned and made into an ordered nursery garden. Pity my phone wouldn’t cooperate to get at least a little picture of it. The photo above is from the little village nearby,<em><strong> Rivières</strong></em>.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And secondly, I received (some time ago allready but I’ve been a bit busy with my school project) the new book by the British author Deborah Lawrenson. Her book had allready appeared in the UK but the US launch was a few weeks ago and her American editor, HarperCollins, very generously not only sent me a copy but wants to give two of them away to my lovely readers ! How great is that, my first ever giveaway !</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To wet your appetite I wrote a little review of the book that you find below. To try your chance and win a copy of the book send me a commentary with an adjective that best evokes Provence to you. The innocent hand of one of my neighbour’s children will draw the two lucky winners. Good luck to all !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">ps. You have a week, hurry up!</span></div><br />
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</div></div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-68748900351176191042011-09-29T23:23:00.000+02:002011-09-29T23:23:17.072+02:00THE LANTERN by DEBORAH LAWRENSON<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOk_cF7Wh-DwaR3gf1pron5GXQPevPlkAcU8gTQiV9F-S0hIWIOMav_6hiEug9h4P0FcFCf1Vh6KyTJo5qPQUBnVawzCy4SppKZGGMV07RoSVlg74wSYbhFf8X3tmmLEQlm1zrmgE8W1de/s1600/photolantern.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOk_cF7Wh-DwaR3gf1pron5GXQPevPlkAcU8gTQiV9F-S0hIWIOMav_6hiEug9h4P0FcFCf1Vh6KyTJo5qPQUBnVawzCy4SppKZGGMV07RoSVlg74wSYbhFf8X3tmmLEQlm1zrmgE8W1de/s400/photolantern.jpg" width="261px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In her new novel <strong>Deborah Lawrenson</strong> tells us two histories entwining, taking place on the same old farmhouse in the Luberon region, but decades apart. There is a young, foreign couple that just met and bought the crumbling farmhouse. They spend a long, hot summer trying to fix the place while the young girl starts to wonder if they really know each other that well. And there is a French family, trying to make a living on the farmstead in the beginning of the 20th century.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Critics praise and rightly so Deborah Lawrenson’s way of conveying colours and sounds, flavours and smells of Provence. She also gets behind the scene, past the « touristy » stuff, the cliché images of Provence and shows the life after the visitors who only know it’s summery face are gone but which I know so well. The quietness of the streets after the summer’s buzz, the <em>mistral</em> howling on the hills and the old houses creaking, the frosty mornings the sun tries to warm with its hesitant rays.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But I must admit that what touched me most personally reading her book is the research Deborah has done about life and labour, history, customs, hardships and poverty of the country in early 20th century, before it became the playground of the rich and famous, the Parisians and the foreigners.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">If you like a good thriller that keeps you awake the whole night you will do well with this book. Or if you like to immerse yourself in other cultures and know about other countries, it will do the trick too. In any case it’s a good read and gives a good image of Provence.</span></div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-85834914104229526882011-09-25T22:49:00.000+02:002011-09-25T22:49:35.123+02:00AUTUMN IS (REALLY) HERE<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Waiting for a little surprise this week I wanted to give you a faint glimse of my summer and schooldays.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>En attendant une petite surprise je voulais vous donner une petite aperçue de mon été et de ma formation.</em></span></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The autumn has officially started and of course the temperatures have fallen though it seems next week will be fine. The nights are chilly but the afternoons can still be hot, though not the days it's raining.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFT9JcSENHb2-zpovEdEYKLeSqh8CqdZTA1uKlhRtvxUQzbJDAd5z1PF75t14EwJ10bOUFnZhqeHUj-uTR_q4X84ryTnCGgnax3umtRYpaFoCbp1x1539pKgJVcYIC-39kK3i1n-X4CkID/s1600/alambicmarche.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hca="true" height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFT9JcSENHb2-zpovEdEYKLeSqh8CqdZTA1uKlhRtvxUQzbJDAd5z1PF75t14EwJ10bOUFnZhqeHUj-uTR_q4X84ryTnCGgnax3umtRYpaFoCbp1x1539pKgJVcYIC-39kK3i1n-X4CkID/s400/alambicmarche.jpg" width="300px" /></a></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">One wednesday we were at the producers' market in Uzès where I saw this alembic for distillation of rose water.</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"></span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UV6UgKR5AQU/Tn-RzTE-RgI/AAAAAAAACs0/vR7MX_8oRFY/s1600/Photo+0757.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hca="true" height="400px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UV6UgKR5AQU/Tn-RzTE-RgI/AAAAAAAACs0/vR7MX_8oRFY/s400/Photo+0757.jpg" width="300px" /></a></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We've also been a lot outside, doing botany lessons with our professors. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Now we have essentially exams and the finishing of the professional project in store 'till mid-october. At the same time I'm looking for a piece of land to start farming allready next spring. I'll keep you up to date. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Have a nice autumn - or spring if you happen to be Down Under, where the Rygby World Cup has just kicked off. And no, I'm not backing the French team, <em>les Bleus</em>, I'm All Blacks all the way.</span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>Bon début de l'automne officielle à tous mes lecteurs!</em></span></div></div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-25282062309900609702011-08-31T09:38:00.000+02:002011-08-31T09:38:04.005+02:00GUEST POST<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcUyAoDli7_EHpE1NKCZgB5Fihv1DHdrGGh0C1yE3yvHHPywVR-RbQf_Uc8lZNrRiB_LjeS628Yb4YXW9qSaumBHpha1zJt4NlNOgINtg7Yjl3ntU8-LPbMsXfFaIgDlESDCPWAUACjOAO/s1600/P1010082.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcUyAoDli7_EHpE1NKCZgB5Fihv1DHdrGGh0C1yE3yvHHPywVR-RbQf_Uc8lZNrRiB_LjeS628Yb4YXW9qSaumBHpha1zJt4NlNOgINtg7Yjl3ntU8-LPbMsXfFaIgDlESDCPWAUACjOAO/s400/P1010082.JPG" width="300px" xaa="true" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I’m so very proud and excited about this, the first ever guest post on my blog ! It is true, a new post here has been long time coming but now it is even better than normally. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My guest is the very talented British writer, <em><strong>Deborah Lawrenson</strong></em>. She has a new book out, <strong>The Lantern</strong>, and on this occasion she has graciously given me a glimse of her writing and some nice photos. I’ll be writing more about her book here later but for now let us immerse ourselves in the world of lavender perfume.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Thank you so much, Deborah ! You can find Deborah’s creative posts on Provence here : <a href="http://deborah-lawrenson.blogspot.com/">deborah-lawrenson.blogspot.com</a>.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>En attendant de reprendre le cours normal de mes messages ici je vous propose un délice inhabituel : un message d’une collegue bloggeuse très talentueuse, l’autheure britannique <strong>Deborah Lawrenson</strong>. Elle a sorti un livre de fiction,</em> <strong>The Lantern</strong><em>, qui se déroule en Provence et à cette occasion elle me fait cadeau du message qui suit, malheureusement seulement en anglais.</em></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Vous trouverez plus sur le livre de Deborah et son univers provençal ici : <a href="http://deborah-lawrenson.blogspot.com/">deborah-lawrenson.blogspot.com</a>.</span></div></div></div></div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-35223052735614738272011-08-31T09:29:00.001+02:002011-08-31T09:31:23.244+02:00The Lavender Distillery<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A guest post by Deborah Lawrenson</span></em></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Small lavender fields are woven into the landscape all the through the hills around the town of Apt. These are not the huge commercial concerns of Sault and Valensole, but smallholdings tended in the traditional way. When the sheaves of mauve flowers are picked in July, the distilling begins, sometimes in the field itself, and a heavenly scent is carried on warm evening breezes.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It was this perfume in the wild that provided the first, tentative descriptions in the notebook that evolved into my novel set in Provence, The Lantern. The book tells two interweaving stories, one in the present and one in the past, of the inhabitants of a crumbling farm hamlet in the Luberon. At its heart is a mysterious fragrance, Lavande de Nuit, created by a blind perfumer. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I tried to imagine what it would have been like to work the lavender fields seventy years ago, when the process of picking and extracting the essence would have changed very little for centuries. Then I discovered the Distillerie Les Coulets, near the village of Rustrel. As you arrive down a narrow country track, time stands still, and </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">you enter the world of Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources. Although Pagnol’s enduring stories were set further south towards the coast at Marseille, the same rural idyll really does seem to linger in every stone and corner.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">An old still, once used to extract the essence from the lavender flowers, stands proudly outside the farm. This is a tiny, family-run business: Christian Borde & Fils. The lavender is grown in the surrounding fields and brought to an unassuming barn for the magic of scent distillation to begin. </span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The water in the still was bubbling merrily. At the table, one of the much older women known to us simply, namelessly, as Madame, was thrashing the head of a sheath against a box to break off and collect the flowers. Then with one deft sifting motion she showered the ground with any remaining remnants of stalk and leaf and an even more intense cloud of lavender scent exploded into the warm air.</span></em> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></em></div><em></em><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">From The Lantern</span></em></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The alembic still is heated. Then, when steam has risen through the lavender flowers it is pushed up through the pipe that comes out of the top, and then down through the cooling cylinder full of cold water that coils round and round. At the end of the process, the liquid contains the essence of the flower, its oil and scent.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With this essential oil, the Distillerie les Coulets makes different strengths of lavender preparations, from the pure essence which must be diluted – with almond oil, perhaps – before it comes into contact with the skin, to soothing massage oils that Madame Borde makes up and labels in her workshop, which is barely larger than a garden shed.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It’s a truly charming enterprise, and the resultant natural oils have a deep and sweet, almost honeyed aroma, a world away from synthetic mass-produced fragrances. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Men with pitchforks were throwing the stalks and flowers up like hay. Another stood on top of the shaggy load, shouting. Then, when it seemed not another petal could possibly cling on, and the mauve tassles were dripping in every direction, the order was given to sway off to the corner where the alembic had been pulled in by a donkey.</em></span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em></em></span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>From The Lantern</em></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">More lavender, and a glimpse further into the past, can be found in the crossroads village of Coustellet, best known for its Sunday morning market, stands the Musée de la Lavande, the lavender museum, where these evocative old photographs from the 1920s and 30s hang on the walls.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It was back-breaking work, on an arid landscape and under an unforgiving sun at harvest time at the end of July. There were no mechanical aids for the cutting and gathering of the stems, just a hand scythe and a cloth bag worn over the shoulder. Here’s the kind of clothes the women would have worn:</span></div><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I was given a bag, a small sickle and a starting place. Although he asked my name and nodded, he did not introduce himself. For several days afterwards, until I got to know some of the other girls and exchange information, he would remain simply the man in the waistcoat. </span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">‘Watch out for the bees, and the vipers,’ he said.</span></em><br />
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</div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-7020860656401974142011-07-15T15:05:00.000+02:002011-07-15T15:05:32.483+02:00WOW<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am amazed and gratified. This must be the first time my English Speaking blog has got an award! How is that for a summery surprise and I fear, a little unmerited, seen how little I have written lately. Sorry, will mend my manners after my <a href="http://fleurdelavande.blogspot.com/">working holidays in Finland</a>.</span> <div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I owe this pleasure and honor to Karon from <a href="http://www.soeasylife.com/">So easy life</a>. Karon is my idol and inspiration, as well as a blogger and a person and for her work with herbs, my favorite subject and hopefully soon my field of action, too.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As allways there are conditions with this award. The first is of course, naming seven other blogs that inspire me. If it had been somebody else naming me, Karon's blog would have been the first on my list. Still, there are many other inspiring blogs to choose from. Here you have a few of my favorite English language blogs:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Vicky Archer from <a href="http://frenchessence.blogspot.com/">French Essence</a> speaks about the life in Provence and her lovely house near St. Rémy</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Corey Amaro writes, <a href="http://willows95988.typepad.com/tongue_cheek/">Tongue in Cheek</a>, and ads lovely photos (I would sell mother and father to take photos like hers)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Carla Coulson, another great (and professional) photographer shows her work in <a href="http://willows95988.typepad.com/tongue_cheek/">Carla loves photography</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Liivia is a Finnish artist that publishes her photos from the road on <a href="http://vialiivia.blogspot.com/">Via</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I don't allways understand everything that goes on in Ariane's blog but fortunately images are an international language and I do love <a href="http://arianereichardt.blogspot.com/">Die Rose</a>!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">As to creativity Artemis Russell from <a href="http://www.junkaholique.com/">Junkaholique</a> has loads of it</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">and last but not least, <a href="http://deborah-lawrenson.blogspot.com/">Deborah Lawrenson</a>, of whom I will be speaking more later...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then seven little things you might not yet know about me:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I love Jane Austen (it didn't say it had to be original!) !</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I love flowers but I prefer the jasmine - at least today.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I would like to rise early, as a good gardener, but unfortunately I was born a bat.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm fighting the urge for sugar but can't resist the spell of chocolate.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I don't hold my liquor, two small glasses of wine are almost too much for me.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">And the wine is almost allways a <em>rosé - </em>or <em>champagne.</em></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I used to wear a lot of black but lately I feel the need of lots of colour. I especially love bright rose, shocking pink as Schiaparelli called it.</span></div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-6736573826695966712011-07-14T12:28:00.002+02:002011-07-14T12:31:53.017+02:0014 JUILLET<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">Good</span> Bastille <span style="color: blue;">Day</span>! <span style="color: red;">Joyeuse</span> Fête <span style="color: blue;">Nationale</span>!</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This blog will continue quiet for some time more because of holidays. If you are interested in Finland see my <a href="http://fleurdelavande.blogspot.com/">other blog</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ce blog va continuer silencieux un peu plus à cause des vacances. Pour des photos de Finlande voyez mon <a href="http://fleurdelavande.blogspot.com/">autre blog</a>.</span></div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-41000457096914060302011-05-08T12:31:00.001+02:002011-05-08T14:44:19.633+02:00SOME NEWS<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I know, I know, I’ve been long gone and I appologise. The fact is my agricultural course plus all the other littlle and even bigger things in life are totally consuming my time and energy. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Fortunately spring - no, summer is here ! And with the warm days my hay fever which I’m treating the old fashioned way with antihistamine pills; I’m not far enough in my studies yet to believe only in natural remedies for this. The down side of the pills is I’m feeling a little weary.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But I need those precious little pills because I spend a lot of time outside, with the school, working experience periods and my own garden. And without the hay fever what could be better ? Lovely sunshine, everything around us green and lush, flowers everywhere… </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I've been to Die in Drôme, to a course on Biodynamic agriculture with a happy binch of my collueges from Nyons agricultural school. We had a lovely week, sleeping over in a country <em>gîte</em>, a farm accomodation, and visiting various biodynamic farms.</span> </div> <br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I've allready done two work experience periods at the Mazet farm in Monoblet, in the Gard <em>département</em>. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">They have lovely terrassed fields growing with nearly thirty different plants, mainly medicinal. It's been hard work, weeding by hand (they cultivate organically, thus using no pesticides) but such a wonderful weather and marvellous surroundings.</span> </div> <br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The house you see at the background is a natural dyer, <em>séchoir</em>. They do <em>tisanes</em>, herbal teas and homeopathic remedies based on their plant production. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">We also had three savioury days with a lady who specialises in <em>cuisine sauvage</em>, cooking with ingredients found in the nature, wild salads, flowers etc. Very inspiring - and cheap: food straight from the nature!</span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ4mAtfmgBYaDEhKMwCJAnlh3T_xa15AVvDqQHii3khlle4elAXAFtMJfTXtWQQO3boKUxMhduz_1FZtY4zhL0eRffLztdWe44eaHp8zLO2qrudtNr3LT7QB4FT5MdI-_1yRNG58IA_8ob/s1600/Photo+0601.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ4mAtfmgBYaDEhKMwCJAnlh3T_xa15AVvDqQHii3khlle4elAXAFtMJfTXtWQQO3boKUxMhduz_1FZtY4zhL0eRffLztdWe44eaHp8zLO2qrudtNr3LT7QB4FT5MdI-_1yRNG58IA_8ob/s400/Photo+0601.jpg" width="300px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I must admit that every time we do something new I'm captivated. I found biodynamic methods very interesting but little hard to follow, so I'm still thinking about implementing it. On the other hand I adopted right away the wild cooking, it's been wild salads ever since. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7h4lCnsKcC_sxh2jujwtGufb7eBPZmVFgnUZn4pzR1EW84668Rcy2KatiVvRXpDMC4kJ7lFu9zF3WEci-No69LjnJvK-SVHxIOjsGwRJ_emNR5PZA_rzNgV5xSH_uTw33aVQfWICBZcMa/s1600/Photo+0610.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7h4lCnsKcC_sxh2jujwtGufb7eBPZmVFgnUZn4pzR1EW84668Rcy2KatiVvRXpDMC4kJ7lFu9zF3WEci-No69LjnJvK-SVHxIOjsGwRJ_emNR5PZA_rzNgV5xSH_uTw33aVQfWICBZcMa/s400/Photo+0610.jpg" width="300px" /></a></div> <br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And then I've been working on our little green patch where we are planting little by little vegetables, aromatics, as well as flowers and some medicinal plants for this winter's herb teas.</span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"></span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFLzcaJAR53JAF8Y8hH7ksleUi76T0Aauh-eg0XQ3A9tBwrvVCm9H7HmN1qV79hTv01Dej-tKH0hGJ_u28sv2BlSg-ntMGBNFK_OfzyPw1KQg6OPC3E6-476NxKNNlnBNOkNsXf-2F2FCA/s1600/P1010584.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFLzcaJAR53JAF8Y8hH7ksleUi76T0Aauh-eg0XQ3A9tBwrvVCm9H7HmN1qV79hTv01Dej-tKH0hGJ_u28sv2BlSg-ntMGBNFK_OfzyPw1KQg6OPC3E6-476NxKNNlnBNOkNsXf-2F2FCA/s400/P1010584.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-19547627491740448482011-03-07T22:51:00.001+01:002011-03-07T22:53:08.884+01:00SPRING<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Today I started a one week course in olive tree growing. We started nicely by having a walk above Nyons, in a lovely olive grove. The weather was nice and we had a good guide with us. And of course this was the day my hay feaver decided that the spring is here...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">More of the olive tree and the olives when I have found some antihistamine tablets.</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Aujourd'hui j'ai commencé un cours d'une semaine sur l'oléïculture. Le cours a commencé agréablement avec une promenade cet après-midi dans les oliveraies au-dessus de Nyons. Le temps était magnifique, notre guide était très prolixe et intéressant et c'est exactement cet après-midi que mon rhume des foins a décidé que le printemps était arrivé. </em></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Plus sur les oliviers dès que j'ai trouvé des comprimés contre le rhume des foins.</em></span></div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-32046181599406121182011-02-20T22:15:00.000+01:002011-02-20T22:15:03.964+01:00ANDUZE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRhLgtoA_u7KXSHghPZDDNU412HmSJM4sCwfFGL7MTzOkr4J9lvgkmenpZspfXmVK2manOhb56QkzUBSJzJQbiAyPVda8CEnMd9H8htHLFahKtb4GqOzu9QDXn5FKXNB-YiRbazNvP9vlM/s1600/Photo+0315.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRhLgtoA_u7KXSHghPZDDNU412HmSJM4sCwfFGL7MTzOkr4J9lvgkmenpZspfXmVK2manOhb56QkzUBSJzJQbiAyPVda8CEnMd9H8htHLFahKtb4GqOzu9QDXn5FKXNB-YiRbazNvP9vlM/s400/Photo+0315.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A sunny morning in Anduze this sunday. A lot of people had been loured out by the warm rays. Many of them walked by the local <em>puces</em> where vendors, lots of non-professionals, had brought their treasures.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I will have to return and take lots of more photos in spring. After all, we live very near to Anduze. I hope the works on the main square will be finished by the tourist season.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Matin ensoleillé à Anduze. Beaucoup de monde au vide grenier local. Je repartirai faire des photos au printemps. Esperons que les travaux sur la place principale soient finis avant la saison touristique.</em></span></div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-7683854734054881622011-02-13T14:11:00.000+01:002011-02-13T14:11:32.661+01:00CREST<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj86ROrZ_H32oZDj8eZ_h3ijza5G1qN_8_vkhSk2BPwz_3laXk9fWrkl239BRieZU8_FKl7hpKgbQH4hf0h9OSFMin28_qi6ZY4ZW3chadBRfm1pTkfcxDbbmtpM6hRP4PmfyPSeO0zWpwv/s1600/Photo+0309.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj86ROrZ_H32oZDj8eZ_h3ijza5G1qN_8_vkhSk2BPwz_3laXk9fWrkl239BRieZU8_FKl7hpKgbQH4hf0h9OSFMin28_qi6ZY4ZW3chadBRfm1pTkfcxDbbmtpM6hRP4PmfyPSeO0zWpwv/s400/Photo+0309.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">After the visit a pizza in the town of <em>Crest</em>. The old town looks pretty but so empty in this winter day. Have to go back later in the spring to a better visit.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I bought red and pink felted wool flowers in a handycraft shop. They will accessorise a hat or a scarf.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Après la visite une pizza dans la petite ville de Crest. La vieille ville est jolie mais vide en hiver.</span></em></div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-3924425399026267842011-02-13T14:04:00.000+01:002011-02-13T14:04:55.650+01:00COUNTRYSIDE IN DROME<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd8VoqhEbEcqk20MSzyDhWiWegb2q5vq7ifDdEEfykxt6LgmAI39iP0vSfEnVa5jFCApuYzT-aT6rFsTRfIF0yr_E8GlEdEuFE1Sbp9Z73TfV3eSDl4muUxg_awzBWE-GFMKmng5pQPtP9/s1600/Photo+0298.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd8VoqhEbEcqk20MSzyDhWiWegb2q5vq7ifDdEEfykxt6LgmAI39iP0vSfEnVa5jFCApuYzT-aT6rFsTRfIF0yr_E8GlEdEuFE1Sbp9Z73TfV3eSDl4muUxg_awzBWE-GFMKmng5pQPtP9/s400/Photo+0298.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Countryside near Crest. The extensive fields of the farm we visited.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Campagne crestoise. Les vastes champs de l'exploitation visitée.</span></em></div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-77605020776474631832011-02-13T14:01:00.000+01:002011-02-13T14:01:33.314+01:00A SCHOOL VISIT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaRNwxSTxKWYr7X6j9flhKBRyDTaaIw4hxLGtIqU38jawKqJgbz_bqn71RO5Xn3jKBFm5xKuRgZzB7rnHHTtgarS13Me310SuUuNeY7fPyA0YjSAs5xZogvem0EfWtkMpIIm_ocq66mYpC/s1600/Photo+0294.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaRNwxSTxKWYr7X6j9flhKBRyDTaaIw4hxLGtIqU38jawKqJgbz_bqn71RO5Xn3jKBFm5xKuRgZzB7rnHHTtgarS13Me310SuUuNeY7fPyA0YjSAs5xZogvem0EfWtkMpIIm_ocq66mYpC/s400/Photo+0294.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">On a visit to a farm near Crest. Observing enormous agricultural machines - not really a future for me...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>En visit sur une exploitation près de Crest, dans la Drôme.</em></span></div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-4953550743547383572011-02-06T15:37:00.000+01:002011-02-06T15:37:15.493+01:00A TREE FOR FEBRUARY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mEAQQiSNVXQ/TU6wx6pvOFI/AAAAAAAACik/powh191QFDY/s1600/Photo+0283.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mEAQQiSNVXQ/TU6wx6pvOFI/AAAAAAAACik/powh191QFDY/s400/Photo+0283.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This month's tree is inevitably the pretty mimosa. Since it comes fron Down Under it's flowers appear in winter, very early spring. It's beautiful yellow flowers herald spring and warm our hearts. Right now the markets and florists are full of them.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Pour le mois de février l'arbre du mois est inévitablement le mimosa. Ses fleurs jaune d'or nous annoncent le Printemps et rechauffent les coeurs.</em></span></div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-12789819475927434672011-01-29T09:42:00.001+01:002011-02-06T20:39:27.957+01:00A TREE FOR JANUARY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPmQIc1fQFcYAIz5MUfsXzBBbeyBjwczXiefSpPujiEfDF1A-jNnsqoLH_3k-NOi-eCZb_DXAcJI_hf6XNCnJ7QyyHMVUa8BOhk-14BAaXS_Zv9GufOROTPW8rezT6gNiAX-AmOgjT0bVR/s1600/Photo+0215.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPmQIc1fQFcYAIz5MUfsXzBBbeyBjwczXiefSpPujiEfDF1A-jNnsqoLH_3k-NOi-eCZb_DXAcJI_hf6XNCnJ7QyyHMVUa8BOhk-14BAaXS_Zv9GufOROTPW8rezT6gNiAX-AmOgjT0bVR/s400/Photo+0215.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Jardin des Arômes, Nyons</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">For January I chose the cypress, one of the rare trees to retain their green colour in winter or "sempervirens". It is of the </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupressaceae" title="Cupressaceae"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Cupressaceae</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> family and is a common sight in all the Mediterranean world. You find them very frequently in the cemeteries which is sometimes explained by them reaching to the sky, guiding the souls of the departed.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Pour figurer l'hiver j'ai choisi le <span style="color: black;">cyprès qui reste vert tout l'hiver, "sempervirens",</span><span style="color: black;"> de la famille des </span></em></span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupressac%C3%A9e" title="Cupressacée"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Cupressacées</em></span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>.</em></span></div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-31773700218299636942011-01-24T19:42:00.000+01:002011-01-24T19:42:44.244+01:00Shoes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhamjPgJbXW3NtlPovMmzJXZZpKksE31htHmo90uCHiHqFCxax_vIKdrG7s_5rFCDuv1-sk5TafzE0r882RXOOWBWImrLV5nQ-akVtS4GE_QtJdS5v6weB7JS2PQIiuXz-5cdlqx0OIL1K6/s1600/Photo+0254.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhamjPgJbXW3NtlPovMmzJXZZpKksE31htHmo90uCHiHqFCxax_vIKdrG7s_5rFCDuv1-sk5TafzE0r882RXOOWBWImrLV5nQ-akVtS4GE_QtJdS5v6weB7JS2PQIiuXz-5cdlqx0OIL1K6/s400/Photo+0254.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Le cloître des Visitandines, Romans sur Isère, Musée International de la Chaussure</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For the shoe freaks!</span></div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-2243564317213420562011-01-20T08:39:00.001+01:002011-01-20T08:41:32.172+01:00PALAIS IDEAL DU FACTEUR CHEVAL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Last weekend we had a thing to do up Valence. So, we took the occasion to visit this wonder near by.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It is the <strong><em>Palais Idéal</em></strong>, Ideal Palace, constructed stone by stone by a postman named <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><strong>Joseph Ferdinand Cheval.</strong> He took 33 years to finish his work of art, "the only example of naive architecture", said <strong>André Malraux</strong>. You can find it a few steps from Romans, in the village of Hauterives in the departement of Drôme.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><em>Si vous avez le temps en passant par Valence et Romans de vous arrêtez dans le village de Hauterives dans la Drôme, visitez <strong>le Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval</strong>. "Le seul représentant de l'architecture naïf", disait <strong>André Malraux</strong>.</em></span></span></div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-60279346713058944942011-01-16T23:05:00.001+01:002011-01-16T23:06:28.103+01:00MEILLEURS VOEUX<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mEAQQiSNVXQ/TTNotn17KZI/AAAAAAAACgk/QSVr2R5-Qis/s1600/Photo+0277.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" n4="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mEAQQiSNVXQ/TTNotn17KZI/AAAAAAAACgk/QSVr2R5-Qis/s400/Photo+0277.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I wish to present to you all my best wishes for the year 2011. My year has started well with the beginning of the medicinal plant studies I've been waiting for. Above you can see our first field day in the school's fields planted with olive trees, grape vine and other fruit trees. A glorious sunny day.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Je voudrais présenter mes meilleurs voeux à tous ceux qui lisent ces lignes. J'espère que votre année aura commencé aussi bien que la mienne, avec la formation sur les plantes médicinales que j'ai tellement attendue. En haut une aper<span lang="EN"><span lang="EN">ç</span></span>ue de notre première journée dans les champs de l'école, une journée magnifique au soleil. </em></span></div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-77629590271711046272010-12-24T00:16:00.000+01:002010-12-24T00:16:36.914+01:00CALENDRIER DE L'AVENT XXIV<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With these few photos from Nyons</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcQroYqRbTuIr3udATqTeoveljx7hc-9dRIV-W78FfJqW798zvapYMdGaYtlMRWaIQt1rna7KuDYdWOuVLHWkXNeicvUoNXNH9h4RlpQb-DaYK_P-eWkMLY2p3k8uPowUD1PEkn89P7hRe/s1600/kotikatu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcQroYqRbTuIr3udATqTeoveljx7hc-9dRIV-W78FfJqW798zvapYMdGaYtlMRWaIQt1rna7KuDYdWOuVLHWkXNeicvUoNXNH9h4RlpQb-DaYK_P-eWkMLY2p3k8uPowUD1PEkn89P7hRe/s400/kotikatu.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My home street.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">I send you Season's Greetings</span><span style="color: red;">!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5CYNNR8An-CVmgGha-MuEh3Prv6de-FjvQis1cp98hKvx1Oo4IjdlJq_feVwo-XvHkf6q3MdNdok77MVETQ4lL9UPo5zDTW81D3l9xMPuF6t8CHKVNcSdiONE86mTr_VjvGnorGIbUAaq/s1600/keskiaik+joulu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5CYNNR8An-CVmgGha-MuEh3Prv6de-FjvQis1cp98hKvx1Oo4IjdlJq_feVwo-XvHkf6q3MdNdok77MVETQ4lL9UPo5zDTW81D3l9xMPuF6t8CHKVNcSdiONE86mTr_VjvGnorGIbUAaq/s400/keskiaik+joulu.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Last weekend we had a medieval Christmas in Nyons.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I will be away from Provence a few days. If you want to follow my peregrinations, look for me on <a href="http://fleurdelavande.blogspot.com/">Fleur de lavande</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Je vous souhaite des bonnes fêtes de fin d'année et à la nouvelle année! Je serai partie de Provence pour quelques jour: Si vous voulez suivre mes voyages, cherchez-moi sur <a href="http://fleurdelavande.blogspot.com/">Fleur de lavande</a>.</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6b_OQzyXORlGPZI9hF9NTdOeciB4O-4DhV4x5P_kGTkF-Y9iuEW7lnyDZj9VMd9NZ9VWv2Nde2ipzxRfqNVcR5ODwveq_DbRcq9xFMe3IlkOmgEQt9ily3c0gunNj9aW46B9ER90z4rUB/s1600/pukki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6b_OQzyXORlGPZI9hF9NTdOeciB4O-4DhV4x5P_kGTkF-Y9iuEW7lnyDZj9VMd9NZ9VWv2Nde2ipzxRfqNVcR5ODwveq_DbRcq9xFMe3IlkOmgEQt9ily3c0gunNj9aW46B9ER90z4rUB/s400/pukki.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And Santa was of course there, too, but instead of Rudolf the rednosed reindeer he had a horse.</span>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-77488031022596835782010-12-23T14:55:00.000+01:002010-12-23T14:55:38.442+01:00CALENDRIER DE L'AVENT XXIII<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My hometown: Nyons in the Drôme département. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Ma ville, Nyons dans la Drôme.</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The old porch / <em>le vieux portail</em>.</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Place des Arcades.</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A Virgin / <em>La Vièrge</em>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The newly restored Church in Nyons. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <em>l'Eglise nouvellement restorée de Nyons</em>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A wintry shop window / <em>une vitrine de Noël</em>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Pretty houses / des <em>jolies maisons</em>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Some old houses / <em>des maisons typique</em>.</span></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Nyons countryside / <em>la campagne de Nyons</em>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-4254361898202657432010-12-22T20:36:00.000+01:002010-12-22T20:36:03.470+01:00CALENDRIER DE L'AVENT XXII<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Some more images from Paris and it's Christmas buzzle</span>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9f4ndpgGBxd-yN8L8hEacc12IcfYK7V8yk0y7b0hcJr1lv2FMmQFCVD3_0VR5O555t3zShUMQcjAY_VhVr4D3Rd0LbzaCSqsXpf-kONq76JECkUIONX49q6zLGoFJlfQvsQtH4FxdPtZR/s1600/paris1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9f4ndpgGBxd-yN8L8hEacc12IcfYK7V8yk0y7b0hcJr1lv2FMmQFCVD3_0VR5O555t3zShUMQcjAY_VhVr4D3Rd0LbzaCSqsXpf-kONq76JECkUIONX49q6zLGoFJlfQvsQtH4FxdPtZR/s400/paris1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><em>Tour Eiffel</em></span>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-32555404987970131712010-12-21T19:40:00.000+01:002010-12-21T19:40:31.514+01:00CALENDRIER DE L'AVENT XXI<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipY-fKO79ML-fTm83h2YHEYngjd_T7szvHkO7WPihQ6YVvcnCJvL-VohSCOYnrkuHvXcHYojV1x45_JlS4zT9mmUDmtTlHZ5CbT3J5iZOAhiwNen3l8SrsKRKDIPGvNCpt_1nPTgST5sde/s1600/Photo+0247.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipY-fKO79ML-fTm83h2YHEYngjd_T7szvHkO7WPihQ6YVvcnCJvL-VohSCOYnrkuHvXcHYojV1x45_JlS4zT9mmUDmtTlHZ5CbT3J5iZOAhiwNen3l8SrsKRKDIPGvNCpt_1nPTgST5sde/s400/Photo+0247.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Christmas tree on the Place des Arcades / sapin de Noël sur la place des Arcades, Nyons (26)</span>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-54096939102402501262010-12-20T11:38:00.001+01:002010-12-20T18:39:10.917+01:00CALENDRIER DE L'AVENT XX<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz92BbtaNFS2MgX20WHwAt_cshUMki-la1FrNjTHVJ6Hles2NqQz3z3ktBIU2-f5_H9PlceBz6G63ha8qYWpwldoDRv3EcIhBsJqq9dd4cAva1SVuLfNgXlQ0QK61gxchbOYXsK31umvxD/s1600/Photo+0242.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz92BbtaNFS2MgX20WHwAt_cshUMki-la1FrNjTHVJ6Hles2NqQz3z3ktBIU2-f5_H9PlceBz6G63ha8qYWpwldoDRv3EcIhBsJqq9dd4cAva1SVuLfNgXlQ0QK61gxchbOYXsK31umvxD/s400/Photo+0242.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Guichet de charcuterie, Alès</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A funny picture for today. This is the first time I have seen these sausages: the pure porc sausage of Lozère called Jesus and the Jesus of Ardèche. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Yesterday was a pre-Christmas sunday and all the supermarkets were open and packed with people searching for their Christmas gifts and more importantly Christmas meals.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>Un petit clin d'oeil pour aujourd'hui. Un comptoir de charcuterie d'un supermarché à Alès, plein de monde pour ce dimanche de décembre. C'est la première fois que j'ai fait connaissance avec le Jésus de Lozère et le Jésus d'Ardèche.</em></span></div>Airellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09677284967199145633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902001415813688267.post-73842145504793725012010-12-19T10:11:00.000+01:002010-12-19T10:11:52.184+01:00CALENDRIER DE L'AVENT XIX<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-ZCPj9nnAU7LdW4u8WLHIGZWlWWBebjKoo09AkFYjzQVw7T5x077p5NKJBaZz3Nrud30OpdHcazpt5eA-VPGbIWgsRT_Eq4bgYAMdzUBvO7-tWvhD_ODeYp17px6d8Top7oVl76D3bQil/s1600/P1010533.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-ZCPj9nnAU7LdW4u8WLHIGZWlWWBebjKoo09AkFYjzQVw7T5x077p5NKJBaZz3Nrud30OpdHcazpt5eA-VPGbIWgsRT_Eq4bgYAMdzUBvO7-tWvhD_ODeYp17px6d8Top7oVl76D3bQil/s400/P1010533.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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