Friday 16 September 2011

Mid-September at La Pouyette

Oh, what a beautiful Morning....



...Oh, what a beautiful Day...


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"The breezes taste
Of apple peel.
The air is full
Of smells to feel-
Ripe fruit, old footballs,
Burning brush,
New books, erasers,
Chalk, and such.
The bee, his hive,
Well-honeyed hum,
And Mother cuts Chrysanthemums.
Like plates washed clean
With suds, the days
Are polished with
A morning haze."

John Updike, September



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A late summer garden has a tranquility
found no other time of the year.
William Longgood

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Oskar, fascinated by the sunset...








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Still life with Apples and a Pomegranate, 1871-2
Jean-Désirée-Gustave Courbet
National Gallery, London



Bon Weekend

7 comments:

  1. Bon Weekend

    Thank you for such a warm, lighthearted and cheerful post. It makes me want to head to the countryside and pick apples and enjoy the rustle of the leaves walking through fields.
    Beautiful!
    Helen xx

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  2. Is there anything you can't grow Karin? It all looks so wonderful and you displayed it so artfully, I want your chippy blue urn please. Oskar looks cute up on the roof??? Really? I'm really jealous, in a good way, of all the fruits you're able to grow.

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  3. This warm autumnlight!

    Ich liebe diese letzten Septembersonnentage!
    (und deine Fotos!)

    ♥ Franka

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  4. Karin oh my goodness the images, especially the last and the painting by Coubet. Just so beautiful!

    xoxo
    Karena

    Art by Karena

    I hope you will come over and enter my amazing giveaway from Interieurs!!

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  5. Only in Europe does it look like this. Trees laden with fruit, vines dripping...all just so beautiful. xx's Karin....

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  6. Harvest time in a tree-fruit garden is always somehow poetic.

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  7. Marsha's right- only in Europe. That ancient, settled feel. Just beautiful and serene.

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