There's no place like home........

I am sososososososososososo glad to be HOME!!!!

 We were in the south of France which was wonderful..then home, clean, mow, wash clothes, pack again and to the Adirondack Mts.  and now............Home..... Home.. I am so so happy to be home...and home is where my heart is......  a new oilcloth from France!!  we bought it in a open air market.. Love the poppies!!  some new yarn... also from France...I'm trying out different ideas....yes another project....

 My yard.....yea!!  My little pool...that I love because I do not do well in the heat ......and this cures it!! The day we left for the Mts. was the hottest day we have ever had here....100+

 The porch....where I am going to live for a few days!!!!

 This is a little fuzzy but...Look at the color!!!!   it takes my breath away it is so beautiful!! squash  flowers...

 The normal time for us to pick first tomatoes is the first of August...I start my plants in march and put them out as big plants and I have been picking my first around July 4th.....but not this year ....I was late ..then we were away so...I just picked the first three!!   I do have some really big fellas getting ready...is there anything  more wonderful that the first tomato sandwich!!!!!  soft white bread ..mayo....and fresh ground pepper!!! yummmmmmm!!!

 I found this lovely thing in a shop in corde sur ciel... it is a hand painted cloth lampshade....poppies!!

 This is a seashell cosmos..surrounded by flowering cilantro!!  wouldn't you like to just sit inside the little cups!!

My kitties........ I so missed them....these two have never hugged like this before......so sweet and soft....grandmother and granddaughter..... yea!! I'm home!!!!!

More pictures from France!!

How could anything be more beautiful!!

My very very very happy husband..this is a dream come true for him to see the tour de france!!

It was so so so so amazing to see these powerful men ride!!

apres la course!!

What can you say about this....

I love love love this country!!

It's cool!! it's cool! it's cool! bonjour!!

a few pictures for you all from corde sur ciel france!  this is walking up to our house!

 one of the many views from the top!

 View as we walk up......so beautiful...

 two of our party in front of where we are staying....built in the 1200's

 One of many  many many kitties in this heavenly spot....

 the colors are so sweet....

 view from my bedroom window....

 the top of the village ..many fine dining spots..

 the view form where we dined...

 a heavenly little corner.....I see an embroidery.......

 walking about town...

 looks like i posted this twice but when I last did this i deleted the whole post so enjoy it twice!!

My darling husband in town.... more later!!   the tour de france comes through our town today...my husbands dream to see this!!!

Hello to home!!

I've been trying to email home but I don 't think anyone is getting them or theirs are not getting to me! So hello all...right now all I can say is .....it is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hoooooooooooooooooooooot!!!!!!!!!!!! Tooooooooooooo hooooot foooooor meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!! Not a good time to be here.....beautiful for sure but really hot!!! No fans...no cool anywhere..........

France!

Bonjour to all my lovely friends!! We arrived in France yesterday ...took a second plane to Toulouse and are now in the land of sunflowers!!!! We are staying in a medeval town of corde sur ciel...just beautiful! Hope to have pics later!!

July 4th weekend!!!******** !!!!!!!**********!!!!!!********

 The first raspberries are starting to ripen!!!  Jam...mmmmm...when I was a little girl mum would make usually one batch of jam..maybe 5 jars.... and it was like gold in our house..special occasions only.....each jar saved until we could hardly stand it!!....but one day each summer she would open a jar...with a fresh loaf of bread...... and lots of sweet butter..... she would let us eat raspberry jam toast all day long...it was heaven on earth...big pieces of butter melting and mixing with the jam... the jam spread right to the edges of the bread.... I can still taste it......

 The american pillar rose...it always blooms for the 4th!

 the vegetable garden...

 The american pillar on the garden entryway arbor....

 A new crochet project...I think it will probably hold yarn...!!  I am going to line it I think..  I am having so much fun playing with stitches....

 Have you all heard or seen the new magazine  " Molly Makes"  it is Fantastic..it is a british publication but I down loaded it on my Ipad....couldn't find it in the states.......Yet! ... anyway it is full of ideas and quite a few bloggers have shown up in the first two issues!!  attic24, comfortstitching...posy gets cosy, just a few who I've been following... This little embroidery is my version of one of the embroideries shown....I used a small piece of flour sack material for the flower pot...this is a very different style of embroidery for me but it is really really fun!  Charlotte Lyons is the designer who did the piece in Molly Makes....check out her site she is really talented!!  www.charlottelyons.com/  ( still can't figure out how to hyperlink...... : (

 I'm really loving the red and aqua color scheme....

O.k.  so what is this ?????  a pink kitty foot....this makes me just want to put my full face right in the pink tummy of my little Rusty.......  =^..^=