A world dominated by magic and unenforceable growth
November 26, 2022
When two giants occupy a tiny cottage with eye-catching pink shutters, surrounded by vivacious founts of enchantment, there’s bound to be some enthralling stories behind.
On this digital reflection of our French lives I write about the bewildered wonders that befell us when we chose to embrace a less demanding yet more challenging lifestyle, mainly by downsizing and keeping our choices and their ensued options as rudimentary as possible, swapping various rat-races for an everyday poetry that harks back to our past as much as to an optimistic future.
Were I to be a tree this is where my roots would be
When two giants occupy a tiny cottage with eye-catching pink shutters, surrounded by vivacious founts of enchantment, there’s bound to be some enthralling stories behind.
Beauty
Intensified and made pleasurably palpable
November 2, 2022
A light longing to detain its virtuousness
October 22, 2022
Its Taste Will Reiterate Itself
September 29, 2022
Sowing the seeds of love
September 28, 2022
Two large trees in the backyard
September 17, 2022
At Les Pierres Beauty Will Never Take A Backseat
August 31, 2022
One of the most vitalizing aspects of sharing
July 23, 2022
Where I need to be to feel at ease
July 11, 2022
Animatedly envisioned, my heart bleeds
June 22, 2022
More adept creators and their zeal
June 11, 2022
Our peonies are doing a far better job
May 22, 2022
The marking of a new era
May 21, 2022
The same radiant lust for life
March 31, 2022
This blossom of all things beautiful, peaches promised
March 24, 2022
How easy personal boundaries can be lost when targeted
March 15, 2022
A Playful Pantomime Too Quick For A Camera
February 20, 2022
Her Journey Into The Unrelenting Fog
November 21, 2021
Accustomed To The Salience Of Overthrow
October 31, 2021
The Expected Triumphant Reference To These Cheerful Days
October 21, 2021
An uninterrupted trust in the bigger forces at work
October 15, 2021
The Ultimate Celebration Of Our Home As An Artwork
October 10, 2021
Unveiling their secrets to us so eloquently enchanted
October 2, 2021
A powerful addition to this emerging euphoria
June 29, 2021
Inspiration Nor Motivation Fail To Find Me
May 29, 2021
More Private Solution To Our Own Taste And Liking
April 28, 2021
Last year’s attempt to do better
April 17, 2021
This vibrant enticement is more than welcome
March 22, 2021
A Sense Of Time Gone By Alongside Their Glimmer
March 18, 2021
Unconditional surrender to their surroundings
March 16, 2021
There’s always something beguiling to build on
March 5, 2021
When pink symbolizes the abundance it does right now
February 24, 2021
Cultivated to the max at the same time
February 21, 2021
All is going to be beautiful again at Les Pierres
February 20, 2021
My personal connection to the abundant beauty lurking here
February 14, 2021
More than generously exposed to the elements
February 12, 2021
So Many Angles And Mainstays To Direct You
February 5, 2021
Melancholia Imposing itself as the new kid on the block
February 3, 2021
One of the most beautiful spots in our p’tit domaine
January 28, 2021
Obligatory Outburst Of Energy And Joy
January 27, 2021
The blanc canvas required for a new summer of delights
January 23, 2021
Some flaw in the fabric of life
January 21, 2021
How much better off we are now
January 18, 2021
Not only numerous but surprisingly easy to find
January 15, 2021
The Start Of A Carefree Life
January 11, 2021
Numerating the most urgent construction work
January 9, 2021
Previously Made Mental Imprints And A Rather Vivid Imagination
January 7, 2021
A rich breeding ground for present and future life
January 5, 2021
A Return To Russia Seems Out Of The Question
January 4, 2021
Enabling the magic to reach beyond our p’tit domaine
December 29, 2020
The best being a foreclosed enemy of the good
December 25, 2020
Paroxysmally preaching to the already converted
December 23, 2020
For its beauty to behold and bequeath
December 22, 2020
The irrelevance of these splurges of my old pain
December 19, 2020
If only we lived in the perfect world
December 18, 2020
A Theatre Piece Sprung From Our Own Imagination
December 17, 2020
New pathways to explore and enchantments to devour
December 14, 2020
Honor Its Medicinal Values By Naming It Toute Saine
December 11, 2020
The Newest Member Of The Family
December 10, 2020
Must have endorsement of the old stones
December 7, 2020
Daily Reality, With Or Without Its Magic
December 4, 2020
There’s some relief coming to the bigger world
November 30, 2020
A brave new world has been on my mind
November 28, 2020
Intuitively knowing it’s better to try despite all inevitability
November 25, 2020
It’s never blunting but contrast that comforts me unrivaled
November 23, 2020
Put the horror aside and focus on its beauty instead
November 21, 2020
It has lost none of its beauty or intensity
November 20, 2020
Heart for the beauty and magic that surrounds us
November 19, 2020
A value never to be underestimated
November 12, 2020
When there are more welcoming wonders in the here and now
November 10, 2020
All of this is wonderful news to me
November 2, 2020
What in this wonderful world to write about
October 25, 2020
Always applauding the efforts of the only one capable
October 24, 2020
In the eyes, heart and mind of a romantic fanatic
October 23, 2020
Colorful Natural Details That Had Me Absorbed All Summer
October 12, 2020
The exposed wealth also entails an intrinsic encouragement
October 6, 2020
Now would be the exact time of year harvest would start
October 3, 2020
The World Premiere Of A Gay Marriage Equal Under Law
October 2, 2020
The game changer it finally turned out to be
October 1, 2020
Bringing forth a gentle duress to focus on the details
September 28, 2020
The discomfort that our love apparently invoked as well
September 24, 2020
An exercise in how to comfortably get away with murder
September 18, 2020
Now that I find myself in search of lost time
September 13, 2020
Some of the many intertwined themes that create its story
September 6, 2020
Stunningly similar to the world of humans
September 2, 2020
An unexpected but by all means pleasing surprise
August 26, 2020
If asked we would probably both classify it as beautiful
August 11, 2020
Now is the time the fear kicks in
August 9, 2020
Create Something Beautiful Out Of Anything
July 30, 2020
Putting a spectacular spotlight on that single moment
July 13, 2020
Personal desire to focus on the good
June 30, 2020
We grabbed on to everything that new life had to offer
June 25, 2020
Inside the creation process of something beautiful
June 4, 2020
A better assessment what went wrong
May 31, 2020
There’s so much beauty in the world
May 31, 2020
Last year when it was still tiny
May 29, 2020
On this digital reflection of our French lives I write about the bewildered wonders that befell us when we chose to embrace a less demanding yet more challenging lifestyle, mainly by downsizing and keeping our choices and their ensued options as rudimentary as possible, swapping various rat-races for an everyday poetry that harks back to our past as much as to an optimistic future.
Attempting to make our lives sustainable is more than a personal choice and has gradually lead to a multitude of decisions we have never even thought of before.
On this website we share what works for us, or woefully no longer works, obviously without claiming the same for you.
We hope that our journey towards a supplementary comprehensive celebration of nature’s beauty might just clear a pathway forward for you too, perhaps challenges a revealing reconsideration, or simply provides for an equally indispensable diversion.
Can we change the world through food? We believe we can and we support Slow Food, a global movement of local communities and activists across more than 160 countries. Together we defend cultural and biological diversity, promote food education and the transfer of traditional knowledge and skills.
The Ark of Taste is an international catalogue of endangered heritage foods which is maintained by the global Slow Food movement.
The Ark of Taste is designed to preserve at-risk foods that are sustainably produced, unique in taste, and part of a distinct ecoregion.
