A wonderful week, despite the rain...

Tendre Charolais

Summer's in full swing here on the farm, with good times, sad times,[ and only the Lord hears about those] productive times, and some lazing around, just enjoying the fresh green smells of June.

I worked on this digital painting above, using French cows and wonderful textures from Lenabem, Playing with Brushes and the ever generous Jerry Jones, all on Flickr.  It loses something when reduced to 660 pixels.

Good times were had this week as we saw the opening of our talented daughter's first solo show at Southern Vermont Arts Center...

the proud dad checks out his daughter's work...

Congratulations, Crickett!  Dad and I think that you're amazing!!!! And we love that you give God the glory for all your gifts!!!

And last night we finally got to see the best movie of the summer!

Don't miss this one!!!!


I posted the trailer to this several weeks ago and I knew then that this was a must-see.  As a former Art History teacher, I thought of how my  former students will love this, as well. 




 And there's another one I MUST see this summer...

100% Teenage Chick-Flick, But I am SO THERE!!!!

à bientôt, mes copines!
Dawne

It's a Slippery Slope...

It's a slippery slope when you first discover Pinterest, like I did this week...






AND...

Get your first iPhone, ever...




On the same day!!!!!!




Oh!  The Apps!  

I've just begun to explore them...

around the house...


But the real time-bandit has been Pinterest...


        Oh!  the imagery!
  
And now I can store all my favorite images and not have to fill up my hard drive. And I get to find out that this chateau, my favorite, and everybody else's, I guess...

From swedishantiques.blogspot.com

 is owned by the Deleuze family in Southern France...




And, found a sweet gite to rent for next year...

mysweetgite.com




...also found a lot of Fairytale things...

thefrenchmouse.blogspot.com

elementsofstyleblog.com


...and began to define my style [haha!]

But I'm probably preaching to the choir, as I'm sure you all know about Pinterest and find lots of your gorgeous photos there. Well, as the head of our family, our dear Father's Day hero says, "Honey, you've always been a late bloomer."


Have to go water the potager now...

Mine???...Nope...PINTEREST!


à plus tard, mes amies!

It's been a busy week...

Photographing beautiful young friends...

and graduates with their mom...

and editing the wedding of a dear former student from my first year of teaching...

with nieces and children of their own...

...reveling in the outrageous peonies in bloom

        Merci à Leslie Nicole pour ses brushes www.flickr.com/photos/leslie_nicole/ frenchkisstextures.com/

...thought of D-Day on June 6, and of the beaches of Normandy, where I'll be next month...






...And I had a ball doing a mini Mixed Media workshop with my friends in our new Art Barn!

I hope Blogger will let me post this.  Hasn't he been so cranky lately?


à plus tard, mes amies!