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9 décembre 2012

Anne and Claude Bachelier visited our house...

Today Anne and Claude Bachelier came and had lunch with us... Anne is my favourite artist and you may have seen many of her paintings and pictures of her exhibitions in these pages... She recently came back from the US where she had a couple of solo exhibitions,...

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2 février 2013

2 new works of Art

2 new Anne Bachelier works arrived home after being framed today. I bought the very small painting at the Art en Capitale show in Grand Palais, Paris last November and the beautiful drawing was received as a present when Anne and her Husband visited our...

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31 mars 2013

Soon we will be off to Asia !

The weather has been awful and very cold in March with no opportunity to take good pictures. Today it is Easter and it is snowing! Unbelievable First Eve, William and Kiara will go to China from April 5th to 29th. In the meantime, from 9th to 27th of...

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12 octobre 2014

At the Louvre...

William wanted to see Mona Lisa (La joconde) : it is true that she seems to be keeping an eye on you whereever you are... We also saw some other great work of art like "La Liberté guidant le Peuple" d'Eugène Delacroix, La Victoire de Samothrace (not pictured...

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4 février 2014

Mots d'enfants...

Une collection de mots d'enfants entendus ces derniers mois/années. Kiara -"Je les mange un par deux!" -"Avant-demain, je vais à l'école!" -"Chacun son tour, moi d'abord!" Kiara, comment est ton nouveau maître? -"Il veut me tuer..." (en fait elle parlait...

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3 janvier 2012

Mini-tree and mini-girl....

Let me introduce you to the DSK bonsai tree... I guess you can imagine how the name originated...

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4 janvier 2012

At Charlotte's house

With another amazing sunset...

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1 septembre 2013

Amboise 2

Eve was interviewed by LCI, the information channel about Chinese Tourists visiting the Loire Valley Castles... http://videos.tf1.fr/infos/2013/les-touristes-chinois-fous-des-chateaux-de-la-loire-8256528.html?xtmc=touristes-chinois&xtcr=1

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3 septembre 2013

First Day at his new School for William !!!

That was well-worth a picture !!!

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10 octobre 2013

panoramic pictures of new york...

Assembled pictures to make panoramic pictures...

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18 octobre 2013

Perfect evening...

Finally some good weather after weeks of rain and cold... The opportunity to take some pictures of the kids while Xiaohong is in China for her High School reunion (20 years after graduation)

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15 novembre 2013

A walk in the village with Candles...

This is a traditional thing to do here to Celebrate Saint-Martin's day

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16 novembre 2013

Kiara's birthday Party

Benjamin, Marie and Luna were here to celebrate Kiara's 3rd birthday

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23 novembre 2013

Playing with Snow...

William and Kiara set out to take huge chunks of snow and fill the inside of the round stone...

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29 novembre 2013

40 Years week-end: Friday evening

The first day of my birthday at the gîte du Lautaret, a great place to have a party...

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24 décembre 2013

Santa Claus came to our House

Ths kids and Eve were so lucky to see him. I did not get the chance to see him, I was out to buy a bottle of wine at the same time... William was very shy when Santa arrived: he could not believe it

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1 novembre 2010

Picking chestnuts

During fall, it is very easy toi pick chesnuts as there are so many chesnuts trees around here. Two weeks ago, the 3 of us gathered 2 bag-full of chesnuts... And this week-end, Eve and her friend Jackie spent 1 hour underneath a beautiful chestnut tree...

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26 novembre 2010

First snow today!!!

TODToday, a very early first snowfall ! We had 10 cm around the house. I love the photo opportunities and especially the light that changes and produces beautiful contrasts... Let me know what you think...

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25 novembre 2010

At home by the fire

Today is Eve's birthday... She is home by the fie looking after Kiara...

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29 novembre 2010

Sunrise on the Vercors...

Another 2 cm of snow last night... 2 pictures taken at a 3-minute-interval

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23 janvier 2011

Kiara Smiling

With very special thanks to Mike and Gillian for the beautiful clothes William was wearing today!

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30 août 2009

Weaving and family shots...

Weaving the old-fashioned way and pictures of Eve and William observing and rinking water from the fountain...

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25 avril 2011

Sheltering under a tree

Caught in a big storm, we found some shelter under a tree to protect us from the pouring rain...

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25 juillet 2011

For our friends Mike and Gillian!

A belated BIG THANK YOU again for the great Canada outfits you sent for William and Kiara. They look great in them (pictures taken today)

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31 juillet 2011

At the Miniature train Park in Chatte

Today, we went to our wonderful garden with Japanese style trees and miniature trains, one of the largest such parks in Europe!

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