Latest Ventures
This June marks our twentieth year of living in France. Our visits back home to California have been few and far between during those years since, for so much of that time we were hosting people at our bed & breakfast. For the last three years we have been working madly on fixing up our retirement house in Burgundy. Now, however, we have shifted our gaze back towards home. We would like to spend a lot more time visiting our family and friends in the States. To this end, because the cost of living in France is so much less, I have tried to think of a business I could begin to make a little extra cash. I’ve had an Etsy shop for 15 years and I’ve sold my handmade prints to over 300 people all over the world. This has been satisfying, but hardly self-sustaining.
A Rainy Week
This week we have had lots of rain. I guess the garden plant life enjoys it, as the back garden, which we made from scratch just two years ago, is becoming like a jungle. All the plants we tucked in here and there, without much sense of design, are expanding, blooming and enjoying their moment of glory, as are we. The erigeron, called Santa Barbara Daisy in California, is a weed, which I carefully planted everywhere and it fills in as a most faithful and effulgent ground cover. The Blue Star Creeper between the stones is full and blooming with charming little sky blue flowers.