Category Archives: The Village

Les Verrines from Above

120 degrees of Les Verrines. (The view from my office.) You can get a good idea of the size and layout of the property (Front garden, side vegetable gardens, field and forest behind) in relation to the house. The house … Continue reading

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Four Seasons

“The Road to Les Verrines” over the last year…

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A Look Back at Winter

Now that winter is officially over, here’s a quick look back in pictures…

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Filou’s Igloo

Because snowmen are boring. Fighting long winter day depression.

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Snow in Les Verrines

Winter has been in full force in Les Verrines for the past few weeks… Dark days, lot of rain, and sometimes even some snow! After a week of unseasonably warm weather, the last week of February we found ourselves buried … Continue reading

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A Day in the Fog

Sometimes the fog seems to define autumn in La Creuse… but there is some kind of a haunting beauty to those really foggy days.

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Mass at Mas Saint-Jean

June 26 is the name day of Saint Jean to which the tiny chapel in Mas St. Jean is dedicated. Every year, once a year, on Saint Jean’s day, the chapel is opened up, dusted off, and a mass is … Continue reading

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Postcard from Le Mas St. Jean

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Spring in La Creuse

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One Year in Le Vignaud

One year has passed since I drove from Germany in a rickety old Renault truck, bound for my tiny village in France. It had been a wonderful ride- I have made life-long friends, followed a longstanding dream, overcome many obstacles, and fallen to others. But through all the cold, the rain, the sunshine, the good food, the up and the downs I wouldn’t trade a day of the last year for anything else. Continue reading

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