Welcome to a French breakfast on a sunny morning.
What are you doing on a saturday morning?
About The Author
14 Comments
Recent Posts
- Day 14: Louisiana Senator Approvingly Compares Trump to Stalin
- Day 13: Elon Musk Flexes His Muscles
- Day 12: While Elon Musk Takes Over, We Podcast With Driftglass and Blue Gal
- Day 11: Harm of Fascist Regime’s Foreign Aid Freeze Comes Into View
- Day 10: The Fascist Regime Blames a Plane Crash on Nonwhite People
Have a nice day!
Sweet thought!
Here, it is not yet first light, and we are just coming off a solid week of torrential rain. Much of the (Northeast US) is flooded. Making up for our beautiful but drought-like summer, perhaps.
Anyway, it look like the rain may quit. I hope so, because later this morning I am helping produce a talk and workshop by Peter Berg on bioregionalism (an aspect of sustainability). We have done quite a bit of publicity, so there is hope for a good turnout. I am hoping this workshop will be the start of some good local thinking on how to survive our industrial collapse. Won’t be any too soon!
(Details here.)
Could you give me more information on this approach? It would be interesting to exchange on it.
I am myself involved in sustainable development related initiatives at European and International level.
EcoTrust, (Pacific Northwest) has a good definition and description of their project. Back in the ’70’s groups began to advocate for planning based on the concept (erase “County” lines).
And here’s an interview with Peter Berg.
Good morning – thanks Melanchthon, what a beautiful invitation you have posted. Usually over here on the East coast we have to be patient and wait for the rest of the continent to wake up. Guess it must be like that for you, too. It’s great to discover that I’m not here all alone.
Now in Florida the birds aren’t even awake yet, but here I sit at breakfast dreaming of life in France.
like to make sure I’m always available for an early morning chats (I got one in my face and one standing breathing into my ear at 5:30). But I can’t really blame them because I was lying in bed wondering why the older I get, the less I sleep.
The image of you eating breakfast is going to put the chorus of Alice’s Restaurant in my head all day.
Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening to all, depending on your continent.
For me it’s cats wanting out – the dog wonders what the heck I think I’m doing, there’s no reason to get up at all.
About that sleep problem – don’t worry. Pretty soon you’ll be nodding off in front of the computer or TV, or clutching at a book. You’ll get enough sleep, just not in the morning.
I’ve always been a terrible sleeper, it just got worse when I went through menopause and then never got any better. But I’ve never been able to nap so I’ve pretty much lost my ability to stay up late.
.
First visit to Paris, fell in love …
ehh with the French people and the beautiful city filled with culture, shops, history and of course La Louvre with Venus de Milo and Michaelangelo.
Many holidays spend in all corners of France, usually on campings in a wonderful climate between May and mid-September. Had to get used to French customs though, had been out of sync a few times. Traveling south, enjoyed the lunch break on the highway, as all French were seated in restaurants for their meal of one hour minimum. So when it got busy again late afternoon, we decided to stop for a late lunch.
Wrong move! The restaurant owners and employees have closed shop and nowhere to be found. LOL
Invited in the home of French relatives in Poiters during Christmas holidays, enjoyed excellent dinner where time just pauzes. It’s a joy that fills the evening till late. The family was very hospitable, and as we were waiting for a delicious cup of coffee, the host had filled the coffee filter, we kept waiting. After some questions and replies, we learned the coffee was prepared for breakfast the folowing morning, as their working day started rather early.
We felt very embarrassed for keeping the family from their rest that much longer.
A Discovery – Pierre Frapin Cognac
Spots in France we enjoyed ::
Paris – Vosges – Besançon – Jura – Limoges – Bordeaux – Biarritz – Jonzac – La Rochelle
▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY
.
A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries. It was started in 1996 as a topical site of the Renaissance art, originated in the Italian city-states of the 14th century and spread to other countries in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Intending to present Renaissance art as comprehensively as possible, the scope of the collection was later extended to show its Medieval roots as well as its evolution to Baroque and Rococo via Mannerism. More recently the periods of Neoclassicism and Romanticism were also included.
… and of course Rembrandt Museum in Amsterdam.
Rembrandt van Rijn – Leiden
▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY
…of our house in the hills above Grasse – this cafe pic could be exactly how we had our breakfasts in the morning sun under the olive trees. Pierre the gardner would arrive at the crack with baguettes. Even the colour of the stone is the same. However we had our coffee in the enormous bowls the French are so partial to, rather than cups.
Otherwise, from this pic, I can just smell the day…and the slightly too chloriney towels drying after a swim – straight from the bed…
But there you go – divorce changes everything 😉
Morning, everyone! The sun is shining here for the first time in over a week! I am so excited! Lacrosse was cancelled because the fields are too squishy, and we got to sleep in-next we’re off to the Saturday farmer’s market to socialize and pick up some asian pear cider. I love the weekends.
Have a great day!
I’ll take some of that sunshine to go PLEASE!
Been raining in New Hampshire for 2 weeks! I’m working on the ark…
Good Morning all from NW TN. It is a lovey and great day here. I got up to see the sun rise and it was lovely. Just another promise for yet another day of living.
I love the internationial ways of doing things.
This looks so inviting and thanks to the French for it, too….:o)
Merci…..