Category: Flowers
Quotation #2 – Heaven in a Wild Flower
Recently discovered and already one of my favourite bloggers, Cosme of BCLPhotography – great posts and great photography, if you don’t know his blog you really should – has invited me to join an interesting new challenge, posting a favourite quotation over 3 consecutive days and inviting 3 other bloggers each day to join in….
Voluptuously Vivid and lots of Black
We have some beautiful geraniums in pots in our courtyard. The colour is an incredible rich and bright fuchsia which is almost impossible to capture in a photograph no matter the time of day or the light conditions. After numerous attempts I decided to try something a little different and photographed some of the older…
A Summer’s day in a tiny flower…..
Autumn is really showing its’ beautiful glowing colours here on the hillside and already throwing some surprises into the meteorological mix. Yesterday afternoon was a busy one in the boutique and all my Sunday afternoon visitors were completely unprepared, after the mild morning, for the fierce downpour and hailstorm which turned up around 4.00pm and…
Cosmos , Marigolds and the end of Summer
This weekend heralds the end of the official summer here in sunny France, as thousands of holidaymakers wend their way back home to prepare for ‘La Rentrée’ – the re-entering, literally, of work or school. over the next week to 10 days. The summer has been a disappointing one weatherwise, some sun to be sure…
The Beauty of Simplicity
“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things” Isaac Newton “The more simple we are the more complete we become” Auguste Rodin ALL PHOTOS © JANE MORLEY
“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens….”
In which we consider life as an eternal optimist and how this combines with perpetual worrying… As the sky remains cloudy and the rain continues to fall here in sunny France at the end of May I thank my lucky stars and my mother that I was born an eternal optimist. It is not always…
Blush Roses
Roses have long been my favourite flowers, along with lilac and the beautiful simplicity of daisies. A few years ago I planted a climbing rose, the name of which has long since been forgotten, which has so much enjoyed it’s position against an east facing garden wall that it now covers the wall completely…
View from a French Hillside 