After a week in the heavenly mill in the southern French sun and a pool, Guthrie was a very happy boy. (Above) Here he is dancing at breakfast the day before we headed back to Paris.
Barbara Mellor translated this amazing book, RESISTANCE, a memoir by Agnes Humbert, one of the first people of the French Resistance against the Nazis. I posted about it on my Lyon blog a couple years ago and Barbara and I became virtual friends. She owns the millhouse we rented! Annika was reading a book by Yoko Ono!
Astor and Arvid, Father and son playing
Arvid popped into my frame just as I clicked the shutter of this gorgeous front door window
blurry dried flowers at the top of the stairs to our bedroom
the metal vase the dried flowers are in
freeing one of the several frogs that got stuck in the pool in the river that ran around and under the house
Mama wearing one of the 3 necklaces Guthrie made from stuff he found in the house
Guthrie the tinkerer, sunburned under his sombrero
Necklace maker, tinkerer
Annika demonstrating
Annika and Arvid and the fiberglass seal
One of my favorite pictures - Annika and Tuva
Artichokes
So delicious - these must have been the biggest artichokes I have ever seen and eaten - perfectly steamed and served with lemon butter and sea salt
Arvid, cassis prince
David and Arvid saying goodbye
Astor and Guthrie saying goodbye
Our next to last breakfast on the balcony
Castle on the way down south at a rest stop gas station
cat's cradle
one of the 2 roasted chickens for dinner, with potatoes, apples, carrots, onions, lemon, garlic
Arvid and David drinking margaritas in the kitchen
elin and Annika saying goodbye
Harper and elin by the pool
fireplace kettle
fish painted around on the wall
kitchen windowsill over the river
bedroom window
freeing the frog
frog pond
Breakfast fruit salad, our goodbye meal for the Nordenskiolds who left for Spain and then back home to Sweden the day before we left....
goats on the side of the road
Harper and Guthrie looking out their bedroom windows in Paris
Harper and Tuva playing near the pool
Harper in Daddy's hat
you and me plate / moi et toi
Happy Guthrie
Dancing happy Harper
David taking Harper out into a field to roll - something she really wanted to do
Harper making a collage with flour, water and newspaper, flowers and pen
Feeding mama horse down the road on our way back to Paris
Harper photographing the Nordenskiold Family
Harper in a field, my beautiful love child
Harper rolling in the field in David's shirt
Hay bales on a truck on our way North
Dining room hook
Kitchen window
Trying to find where to return the rent-a-car under the Louvre after a 12 hour drive that should have been 7.....
A local mayor's office in the South
Stones and glass from the river...
Paris after the gay pride parade during the 4 hours it took us to go 2 miles!
One of the many salad in the south
Arvid and Tuva making apple crumble
Swedish meatballs!
Kitchen table
Paris
Annika and Tuva saying goodbye to us
Tuva and Harper saying goodbye
Our crazy 2 families together on a sweltering day in a tiny town with a medieval castle and church...
A for Arvid, Astor and Annika
H for Harper
doorknocker!
Tuva
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