I didn't paint the above:)
I did paint below.
There is a feed on IG I love..
Emilie_joly_johnson
Her family ,her life in Provence..
All so genuinely beautiful.
This is her youngest daughter..Romy:)
Meanwhile au Québec things are slow as molasses..and cool weather expected..we've been told to hold back on gardening for a while..
Secret garden scilla path..
My fave herb to grow..ever.
You can start basil plants indoors by rooting tips of grocery store basil plants..
Fred picked up my plant for me..SO grateful..
We're still not leaving the house..
I follow many accounts on IG..
I was craving tulips..can't go to the stores..an account I follow is a florist.. she is delivering a bouquet here next Thursday...while making other deliveries to the shops and such..
What a highlight that will be.♥
Listen..I am in the best possible company..it's not an ordeal to be with your best friend 24/7..we were doing it already..this stay at home thing ..is not hard for us..although J misses his Costco..and I don't know yet what I will do for a few annuals and baskets..
But does that sound like the end of the world?
NOPE nada not at all. Sheltered..spoiled.
It's everyone else my concerns are for.EVERYONE ELSE.
God bless everyone else.(ok us too please for a few things..)
I was wondering if any of you have seen this?
My daughter sent it to me.
I love it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw5KQMXDiM4
Take care...
Wow! The video is amazing.
ReplyDeleteDo you have an online farmer's market nearby? Our little town has one. They open up orders on Monday & we can add to it as often as we like until Thursday night. Then on Saturday morning we drive by & they load it all into our cars. I've been able to get plants for my garden through them. And they have the most glorious fresh cut bouquets. My d-i-l bought tulips last week.
In some areas the greenhouses will take online or phone in orders as well & you can do a drive through pick up.
I do know new plants are a small thing but goodness they make life so much easier.
I am going to look into all of that:) I know my hardware store has curbside for soil and such.. I have to wait it out a bit here over 60 is the cut off..I'm 66 J 79..so I have to be cautious.
DeleteAll the curbsides are great ideas!
The florist doesn't take cash etc.I did an electronic transfer..
What will our future world be like?
This morning they were saying all those high rise office buildings? When you can work from home w/ all the technology..will they be white elephants?
Certainly I see a different world.
Thank you for the tips!
We share many of the same feelings -- just fine about being "in" and worrying about the "out there," wondering about baskets and other blooms and when we might get them. You're lucky with your tulip friend. I'm longing for tulips. Sorely longing. Well, I look out my window and the daffs are still blooming and they are cheery and happy and I'm good with that.
ReplyDeleteOf course I'm wildly happy at your art and thank you for the video link. Biggest sigh! Take care!
The tulips ..serendipitous to see she was delivering to shops locally..I have never met her..she is opening shop here in my little town.
DeleteI am grateful..another gardener/supplier from the area delivered my 2 dahlia tubers..
Thank goodness for delivery!
Yes no sign of daffs chez moi.I picked Lungwort today while out..slim pickings;)
Loved the video♥
Have a good weekend!
Dearest Monique,
ReplyDeleteWow, love your blue Scilla path photos!
Enjoy the month of May as slowly spring will penetrate your region as well!
Hugs,
Mariette
It should.. it hasn't failed us yet..take care!
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DeleteI ordered my tomato and basil plants online and they were delivered to me mid April - perfect planting time here in NC.
ReplyDeleteSo ahead of us! Enjoy your piece of paradise:)
DeleteYou are slower to spring ahead this year but I know you will catch up quickly. Scilla time is my favorite time of early spring. Ours are all but gone already. Daffodils fading fast too. But your pulmonaria is blooming and mine just started..soo there's that :) We do go to Costco and the grocery store when we need supplies but always wearing a good mask with the wire that let's you snug it across the bridge of the nose and high cheeks. We stay 6 feet from other shoppers. In and out! Costco is doing such a good job of requiring masks, setting up social distancing stations. Get home, wash hands, unpack, wash hands, wash veggies fruit, wash hands, wash containers or use isopropyl alcohol on containers when possible, wash hands - LOL. I was so lucky to get all my plants with curbside. I've been buying from them for years and knew just what to order. Now I have a dining room nursery set up until they can go into the ground. I'm not entertaining anyway so it's okay to use the space :) The light is perfect there. I just saw that video on Facebook a couple of days ago. LOVED it! I look at the photos of your boys the right and wonder when we will ever get back to watching their sports, hugging and kissing them. Overnights. You and I are lucky to have such wonderful companions at home during all of this.
ReplyDeleteWe are and we tell each other..there is no one I would like to do this with better than you.
DeleteSuch histories we have,we know everything..comfortable..peaceful.
Our little(big) boys..what troopers they are..my heart actually breaks for them.
I bet in a couple of weeks I will go to Costco ..I need to make a mask w/ a wire..I noticed when I talk mine is not snug.
J will stay home.
I have forbidden him..
LOl like he ever listens. I'm not a big forbidder.
I know when Fred brings us groceries..same thing..garage overnight..wash packaging ..wash products..wash hands wash hands wash hands.
I took Costco for granted.I don't like big box stores J does..HIS Costco.Now I want it.there is safety in cod in the freezer..
Things like that..
Nothing will be the same.. I was thinking last night without a vaccine ..cross border.. you get it..I wonder if insurance companies will cover Covid..I see a lot of people staying home.
Jacques heard Oly airport and CDG may be closed until end Sept..Paris and it's tourists?
La vie a complètement changée.
xoxox
Yes, everything so completely changed. There will be more caution than ever, even when there is a vaccine. I wonder about Palm Springs next year. I just read this morning about a convent for elderly nuns with dementia, which is located just a few miles from us. 5 elderly nuns all dead from COVID. They had a hard time testing as the nuns would become too agitated when they tried to put a test swab into their noses. I'm sure no one knowingly came into the facility with the virus but someone did. So sad. Can you imagine people who have paid for trips to Europe? I'm surprised that airports in the U.S. did not close in March too. Happily pulling weeds this morning :) It's the little things now ♥
DeleteHow sad..about the nuns..that is awful.I can see them not wanting the test.I am going on a garden walk soon..just puttered this Sunday am..and visibly..still puttering:)x
DeleteOh là là, the one you painted!!!! Delicate, fine, gentle, beautiful! I am in a somewhat similiar shelter situation to you...Life is good, in a lot of ways I prefer it to be this simple, and then, I also long to travel, to see friends...A major lesson in acceptance...and yes, so many are suffering and will, with economies collapsing too...for now, I keep a positive spirit, that must be better for the world than negative...and it is better for me, I know that...
ReplyDeleteRita..I think of all my travel loving friends ..in a way I am so glad we did the few trips we did..even before this ..we knew overseas was probably out of our agenda.. we have never been cruisers..But think of it even x-border? W/out a vaccine will insurance companies insure? As I mentioned to Susan above..Orly and CDG probably closed until end Sept..our news reported that.
DeleteNumbers are climbing..It's the most worrisome thing ever.A man placed his wife..not old.. in an extended care facility because of Dementia..on the news he regrets and says he feel he sent her to a slaughterhouse.I was crying of course.
Every single day here 100 more deaths.
C'est triste la vie parfois..This is one of those times:(
Yes stay positive..stay well I know you love your friends..you will be w/ them again:)
Home..hobbies..food..light..we have the tools.
Not everyone:(
Take care and thank you for liking mon aquarelle.
your secret Scilla path is gorgeous...💙...and just look at that Garlic!!! Fantastic!!
ReplyDeletehow are your seedlings doing???
I did snip some Basil to grow roots...fingers crossed!
Beauty day here today...if not on the windy side...but beautiful!!
Have a great Sunday my dear...
Cheers!
Linda :o)
My sweet peas are reaching high..so I hope when I transplant they will survive..hollyhocks too..tomatoes doing well ..parsley a bust..got my string of pearl seeds..I have some between scott toweling..moist...in a baggie as they are hard shelled..I had forgotten that trick..my 2 dahlias are leafing..and my 3 dried up geraniums..one has a bud so out of 6 that I tried..3 worked..will do again next yr!But I should have moistened them once.I feel thats why 3 died too muchIt's half pretty here..Half;)x
DeleteJust watched the video...😪...forgot last visit...I am going to send it to all of my kids...thank you!!🙏
DeleteLife has changed as we knew it...I hope when this is over, for the better! Thank you for all the beauty you share. Big hugs...
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Just sat down to news..ambulatory morgue outside one of our hospitals..it's all so unreal..and weighs so heavily on all of us.
DeleteMy family is not discouraged which makes me feel better..just Mylène the teacher everything is up in the air and her Noah.
When this all started the motto was :Ça va bien aller..now it's Ça va mal.
💕💕💕Bisous ma belle
I bought some beautiful tulips from Aldi, can't remember if it was last week or the week before! they were very pretty, they still look ok. I've watched that video a few times, I cry every time. Your first image is lovely and I like your secret path.
ReplyDeleteThank you..one day I guess I will find myself in a store again..
DeleteIt just seems improbable at the moment.
Tulips are so lovely...take care Polly.
I adore your watercolors, Monique. I simply adore them.
ReplyDeleteAmalia
xo
I am so grateful for your nice words Amalia:)Thank you.
DeleteLife goes on , my dear. Spring is there, outside, calling us. Enjoy.
ReplyDeleteIt's so chilly here!!I am sure once it all warms up and leaves come out on the trees..things might feel more comforting:)
DeleteMonique, like you, we stay home, and like you and J, we are good at it. We are fortunate to have each other! I'm sad for those who live alone and are truly lonely. And for those in hospitals or nursing homes who can't have the comfort and compassion of famiy and friends. I've done curbside for some garden things, but miss the trips to the garden center, roaming the aisle, selecting fresh starts for the spring garden. Thankful for my pperennials. The day lilies are blooming, the iris have stopped. My oak leaf hydrangea and star hydrangea are beginning to bloom. Grateful for small things. Your path of scilla is lovely. I looked to see if I can grow here. Yes, but would need to dig up the bulbs after bloom and store till next fall. I don't have success with replanting bulbs.
ReplyDeleteTake care, stay safe, and enjoy the simple days that we are blessed with.
We are lucky with our co-locataires:)
DeleteNot difficult to live with..;)At all.
I feel sorry for a list as long as my arm and more.
We cannot get enough carers for our extended care places.
What a mess.Those poor people..
Anyway..I get myself into a frenzy .I swear if my mom would have been in one of those places..I would have crumbled.
Looking forward to blooms like Texas!:)♥
I know what you mean. We have a friend in a care facility. She has lived in a bed for 7 years. We go visit, have food delivered, etc. anything to make her days a tad more cheerful. We phoned on Sunday and asked if she would like a milkshake. She was obviously down, not feeling perky, etc. We ordered one to be delivered. She phoned once it arrived, and sounded like a different person. Little things make a difference when one's life is so confined. Her daughters and friends can't visit. She is all alone!
DeleteSo kind of you//x
DeleteI forgot to thank you for the video link. I cried! It is touching, very touching.
ReplyDeleteI did too!! Absolutely.♥Very well done.Very touching.
DeleteLOVE the delicacy of your house watercolor !,
ReplyDeleteNo wonder instagramer Emilie doesnt want confinement to end...too pretty her life
Isn't it absolutely something that dreams are made of? Today..poppy fields.
DeleteI knew you would love it.
Thank you!
That is the sweetest video Monique. What a brilliant writer he is to have written that himself! My mind is always amazed at all the talent in this world, and your talent always amazes me. You are so very incredible. I know I say that all the time, but I really mean it. You have a beautiful eye for everything and your presentation is always impeccable. I have taken your cue and am trying to root basil also and have followed the sweet account of your friend on IG. I love the sharing aspect of IG and how everyone is like a big caring community, well almost everyone! Its like a huge tea party of like minded souls! Sunny and warm here today. We are having burgers and salad. Nothing spectacular. Stay safe my friend. I could not bear to lose you! xoxo
ReplyDeleteOh Marie you made me well up.xox
DeleteThank you .
There are so many brilliant people..you are right..
we need them to make a vaccine♥
Just watching our daily update.. it's so sad the number of deaths.every single day in exteneded care.
Just read our local one has been struck too.
What kind of world has this turned into?
Leaving cookies on stoops?
Mylène had to go in and prepare her classroom for the return to school on May 18th..she found it very sad.Thursday parents will pick up childrens bags.
Mylène took hundreds of pics of her kids and showed them too me..often..loves her kids..
this is all so sad.
Sorry I shouldn't watch te news and read my blog right?
Your basil will thrive!
I reserved your book..it's not instant w/ Libby when a book is popular.
You have shown me sooo many things over the years.It's me that's grateful!xx
Very touching video and so true. It does make you think. I haven’t been out except for a few times. I feel for those who are alone and so many people who have no money or food. I saw a friend who drove up to drop off something very special after losing Chloe. She dropped the gift off and I saw her down the driveway in her car. She has stopped I was outside gardening. It was like shouting to each other. Your artwork is always pleasing to the eye and of course your fabulous eye for designing vignettes.
ReplyDeleteI am sure ..times like these make sorrows even more sorrowful..poor you and Chloe..
DeleteBut how lucky to have a friend that cares♥
Tears come to my eyes at so many stories we see.
You just don't know what you have till it's gone right?
I don't miss the excess and shopping etc..I miss the life my family had..friends..dinners..sports..all that..for them.
Thank you and again I am sorry for your loss..:(
Such a sweet video...someone had sent it to our staff as well. :) We can't complain over here either. We are all healthy and fortunate to be able to work from home (for now) safely. I am a homebody too!
ReplyDeleteI know you are..a lovely one♥
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