As far as the eye can see.....................

"The world only exists in your eyes - your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Sharing these photographs, of the beautiful French countryside and the fields that surround us, with Hey Harriet's Shadow Shot Sunday, Mary's Mosaic Monday @thelittleredhouse and Tracey's Weekly Words to Live By @Notes From a Cottage Industry.

If you've enjoyed my mosiac then I definitely think you should visit these wonderful blogs too.

You're in for a treat.

Have a great week everyone.

Bright Red Poppies.

Each winter I throw vast amounts of wild bird seed hither and yon in the garden, aiming for the grass. However, I think some went into one of my flower beds as this year beside the japanese quince and in amongst the roses are these cheeky chaps.
Red poppies or to give them their posh latin name papaver rhoeas. So, to brighten up the start of the week some pretty mosiacs for Mary's Mosaic Monday @thelittle redhouse and some wise words for Tracey's Weekly Words To Live By @ Notes From A Cottage Industry.


"The end is where we start from".
T.S. Eliot.

Cherry Ripe!

“When I sound the fairy call, gather here in silent meeting,
Chin to knee on the orchard wall, cooled with dew and cherries eating.
Merry, merry, take a cherry, mine are sounder, mine are rounder,
Mine are sweeter for the eater, when the dews fall, and you'll be fairies all.”

Emily Dickinson. (American poet,1830-1886)

I think this is the first time, in almost 14 summers spent living here in Normandy, that our cherry crop has produced enough for us and the birds to enjoy

I'm joining in with two great meme's with this post; Mary's Mosaic Monday @ the little red house where we're celebrating red, white & blue.

I hope my cherries, nestling in their red, white & blue vintage Quimper bowl, qualify!

And, Weekly Words to Live by @ Tracey's blog, Notes From A Cottage Industry.

Hope all my US pals are enjoying the holiday weekend, have a great week tout le monde.

A Rose by any other name...........

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.

Juliet's speech from Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare.

Linking this post to two of my favourite Monday Meme's:
Mary's Pondside Mosaic Monday @ thelittleredhouse and Tracey's Weekly Words to Live By @ Notes from A Cottage Industry where you'll find some excellent quotes to make you ponder on the way life is.

Weekly Words to Live By # 170

My body is the garden of my soul, of my soul.

My body is the garden of my soul.

Soul of Healing Affirmations - Deepak Chopra

Please visit Tracey @Notes From A Cottage Industry for more interesting quotes & ideas.

Weekly Words to Live By #169

"Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection". Lawrence Durrell.

Please visit Tracey @ Notes From A Cottage Industry for more pearls of wisdom.