We took an all day photography workshop last week on Street Photography. Rather than the mean streets of a city, we shot the streets of a town, the one where my husband went to high school — Washington, Missouri along … Continue reading →
Here’s our day at the Louvre. The first full day we were in Paris, we took a walk in between our tour activities and our first sighting of I.M. Pei’s pyramid at the Louvre was the moment we really knew … Continue reading →
On our first full day in Paris on our own after our tour ended, I had a plan, but we ditched it and decided to just walk. We walked the Champs-Élysées from the Louvre to the Arc de Triomphe where we … Continue reading →
Our first full day in Paris was also the last full day of our tour. Since our tour guide works for the Jardin des Plantes and the Missouri Botanical Garden has a couple of people with offices there, we had … Continue reading →
The French style of gardening features long straight lines and lots of trees and shrubs, with green as the dominant color. The feel is calm and elegant. But after many days of French gardens, it was lovely to visit an … Continue reading →
I put up some of our photos from our visit to the chateau and gardens at Villandry on Wednesday: Villandry, France. I saved the photos related to our lunch and the huge potager for Weekend Cooking today. Our lunch was at … Continue reading →
I posted photos of Chateau de Valmer on Wednesday, but I saved the ones from the potager for Weekend Cooking and Saturday Snapshot today. Potager is the French term for what Americans would call a vegetable garden or a kitchen … Continue reading →
After our visit to Chateau du Chenonceau (Chenonceau), we were taken to lunch at the private home of a husband and wife who are avid gardeners. We’d had a bit of rain earlier that morning and it was a cool … Continue reading →
Our second hotel was the Château d’Artigny, built in the early 20th century by perfumer Francois Coty in the style of an 18th century chateau. We stayed in an annex across the way, so this was the view from our balcony. … Continue reading →
On the second day of our garden tour, we went to the most famous garden in France — Claude Monet’s garden in Giverny. We were met there by the head gardener, James Priest. This garden inspired Monet’s paintings. Now, Monet’s … Continue reading →