Showing posts with label Monet's Garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monet's Garden. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Travel Tuesday...Giverny...again!

My sister & BIL have come home from their trip around France. And being the best sister in the world she brought me home a few pieces of my favorite place...Giverny!! I know I already posted about Monets home & garden, but I just had to share it a little more :)

Something I wish I had picked up when I was there last time was the paper house I saw in the gift shop. She brought me one home!! I had so much fun putting it together last night & just had to show you.......

The front porch
Monets children at one of the doors.
If you look carfully you can see Monet working on a painting at the top of the steps :)
Here's my photo of what the front porch looks like now....



But the best thing she brought home for me? This book....
It's filled with the all the history of how Monet came to live there & how the garden was started.

Here he is standing on one of the newly built bridges this garden is so famous for.

Heres a view of that same bridge when I last visited a few years back.....
This book not only shares the history, but also the garden layout & flowers that are in each area. And since my husbands a Landscape Designer, I bet you can guess what I have planned for him to recreate in one corner of our yard!! I've wanted my own little Giverny ever since we bought this house. I think this just might be the summer to start it :D

If you want to see more of the amazing gardens please visit the last post I did on Giverny :)




Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Travel Tuesday.....Monet's garden in Giverny, France

This is one of my most favorite places in the world! Monet’s garden in Giverny, France.


View of Monet's house through the garden.
It was spring & beautiful.



Everything was in full bloom.
The fragrance in the air was amazing.


It almost made me dizzy…being able to walk right into the paintings I have admired my entire life.
Just days before we were walking through Musee d'Orsay.......

and now we were there......
My sister under the vines on the bridge.




I tried to soak it all in. Really be there, so I will never forget.

And then just when I thought it couldn’t get any better, on the way back to Paris....
This is where we enjoyed lunch.


….outside along the water
 Amazing food, wine, view...
& memories!!
I am determined to go back someday. It was just to beautiful not to :)