5 Things

1) Late spring poppies popping up all over




2) Mon petit




3) Pâtes de fruits - strawberry, lychee, black cherry and mango/passion fruit




4) Sometimes Paris makes me swoon

5) Spicy!



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Photo du Jour - Coquelicots

Every spring the fields of the Languedoc are splashed with scarlet poppies.

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June

The month of June is pretty near perfect, if you ask me. 

Cherries and apricots and melons arrive at the markets, the mind-numbing summer swelter has yet to hit its stride and on the 21st all of France stops to listen at the Fête de la Musique. 

Lavender is starting to bloom and the aroma is divine!

Mastering Cheese by Max McCalman finally landed on my doorstep and I'm slowly savoring every word.

The first crop of figs are ripe for the picking.

Blue, blue skies above.

Poppies - they're fading fast, but still brightening up the fields.

Mild-mannered spring garlic is in season.

Al fresco dining has officially begun.

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South of France Poppies

They've been popping up everywhere.  A single stem on the side of the road, a wide red ribbon at the edge of a vineyard, an entire field bordered by plane trees and sun faded stone buildings.

Poppies.  Coquelicots.
The flower of May.

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Photo du Jour - Poppies

I literally slammed on the brakes when I saw this gorgeous field of coquelicot while driving to Narbonne to buy cheese and meet friends for lunch the other day. Luckily there was no one following dangerously close to my rear bumper, as drivers tend to do in this part of France.
Is tailgating a France thing? Or a south of France thing?

Another reason why I always try to have my camera with me.

(Not to document the accident I would have caused...but to take photos of the pretty flowers, of course!) Pin It