by Louisa Jones | 17 Dec 2018 | Uncategorized
A fine summer with rain every two weeks until mid-August, everything very green. More final touches on the Annex. Summer music festival Labeaume, http://www.labeaume-festival.orgwith now the regular presence of the art director, composer and conductor Philippe...
by Louisa Jones | 16 Dec 2018 | Uncategorized
Three landscape architects and designers from India, an anthropologist and philosopher from Toronto, two southern French artists, neighbors, friends, meetings with the Sentier des Lauzes, Terre des Liens, and finally the first use made of the new multi-purpose...
by Louisa Jones | 16 Dec 2018 | Uncategorized
Intense work on the new Annex in spite of snow and heavy rain, and some much appreciated visitors…After an early start to spring, snow suddenly arrived and severe cold, followed by intense and repeated rainstorms. We may be grateful for this next summer…...
by Louisa Jones | 16 Dec 2018 | Uncategorized
The ELIPS team, Yvan Delahaye and Anne-Lise Blaise with the help of some friends, rebuilt a big wall perched over a spring… Jean Marie Perrier and his brother Sylvain et Eleanor Royle from England and Nova Scotia between two rounds of wwoofing… Visitors...
by Louisa Jones | 5 Dec 2017 | Uncategorized
Four nights residency by an uncle of my husband’s, a rare relative. Then Lorraine Chenot and Marie-Françoise Perret from the Parc naturel http://www.parc-monts-ardeche.fr/ for a delightful lunch, and a day with my publisher from Actes Sud, Aïté Bresson, author...
by Louisa Jones | 25 Sep 2017 | Uncategorized
A long drought, weeks and weeks, only the lagerstroemias (summer lilacs) add floral colour… but the house is full almost all month: French artists (a couple); a Franco-American-Lebanese family, then a whole clan of Parisians, journalists mainly, full of charm...
