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Post by breeze on Apr 18, 2022 13:50:33 GMT
kerouac, when I couldn't find your review of Girlhood here, I checked the NYT, Guardian, and Washington Post reviews.
We're still thinking about the movie.
The American-style football scene at the beginning baffles us. It doesn't fit with anything in the rest of the young women's lives. It seemed to be a one-off. Were they players or spectators? And who would go to the expense of providing uniforms and training for such a niche sport, even more so for a women's team?
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Post by breeze on Apr 18, 2022 11:46:12 GMT
kerouac, I seem to remember you saw the movie Girlhood/Bande de Filles? We recently watched it and I tried to find your comments on the movie but I can't.
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Post by breeze on Mar 23, 2022 19:00:11 GMT
Bixa, I just now used Google maps to zoom in on the conservatory and found out that that wall faces south.
I knew I'd forget what that plant was so I took a photo of its label. It's Salvia dorisiana, fruit scented salvia.
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Post by breeze on Mar 23, 2022 15:58:35 GMT
Tod, it just so happens I took this photo of nasturtiums in a conservatory yesterday. This is what you (fingers crossed) can hope for. Everything in that place was on steroids.
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Post by breeze on Feb 18, 2022 15:02:47 GMT
Mick, it was that destructive? I hope you'll you be able to save everything--well, I mean plants. Most garden furniture, clotheslines, etc that we all have in our back yards can be replaced but we all love the plants we have.
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Post by breeze on Feb 18, 2022 14:59:58 GMT
So true, kerouac. We just watched Moonrise Kingdom and afterwards my husband said, Why did we watch that? It's only the second movie of Wes Anderson's that we've seen and I disliked the artificiality of the other one. I ordered Moonrise Kingdom not realizing that artificiality is his stock in trade.
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Post by breeze on Feb 18, 2022 14:58:16 GMT
I forgot to say how pretty and well thought out the dresses are. Lucky kid!
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Post by breeze on Feb 18, 2022 14:57:06 GMT
cheery, beauty just flows from your fingers. Everything you create is delightful. That's a lucky little great grandchild, and her parents will enjoy the mobile long before the baby is able to appreciate it.
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Post by breeze on Dec 19, 2021 14:50:44 GMT
Mick, what a gorgeous location. Close to you?
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Post by breeze on Dec 11, 2021 19:48:19 GMT
bjd, I can't resist suggesting some things, but don't run out and buy anything on my say-so till we have heard from other anyport gardeners. Your idea of widening the borders sounds good to me. I'd stick in some tall evergreens toward the back and hellebores toward the front (though hellebore prices in France shock me). Both of these will give you interest at dull times of the year. I don't much like needled evergreens; I'm thinking of rhododendrons and azaleas if they would grow where you live. I have to admit I haven't seen them in France. Maybe boxwood toward the back, if you can find a variety which doesn't go bronze in the winter but retains its green color. It might need to be trimmed only once a year, and it wouldn't need to be trimmed by you necessarily. Once we got an electric-powered hedge trimmer the job was taken off my hands. Heh heh. I'm going to link to the instagram account of my favorite private garden in France. I love this garden and have hundreds of photos from spring and fall visits. In case Lio's instagram photos are not enough for you, I can supplement. www.instagram.com/liohelix/Because I fantasize about living and gardening in France (and I'd have lots of garden staff in this fantasy), I've found several nurseries where I would buy plants. At the moment I can only remember this one. www.lepage-vivaces.com/index.phpI'm looking forward to seeing other gardeners' responses. This time of year (in the northern hemisphere) the garden is a blank slate and it's the perfect time to dream.
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Post by breeze on Dec 10, 2021 14:38:42 GMT
I didn't stick with the Julien Dore video the whole way through, but the beginning reassured me. I always felt there was something missing in France, an otherwise terrific country, and that was potato chips (crisps to some Anyporters). Starting a few years back we began to find chips/crisps on sale in supermarkets (some with Lionel Messi's photo on the package) but on this trip there seemed to be a wider range of them. Even the Perche now has its own "La chips du Perche." Learned a new word, too--"scrountch" is perfect.
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Post by breeze on Dec 5, 2021 13:32:18 GMT
Tod,I'd never heard of Chef John till you kept posting his videos. Over the months I've watched a few of them. He's always a good explainer and is entertaining to boot.
I wondered about his slightly odd vocal presentation, so I just looked it up. That's not how he really talks; he tried doing that to perk up his commentary and it worked. He was born in Shortsville, NY, full name John Mitzewich.
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Post by breeze on Dec 5, 2021 11:59:20 GMT
Orson Welles, Touch of evil. Really awkward dialogue, poor acting, ridiculous plot. I think Welles is overrated as a director. I usually follow up a movie by finding contemporary reviews and in 1959 (I think it was) the major reviewers liked it! Except for one. Reviewers are quick to polish an already bright reputation.
The Japanese movie Like father, like sun has the most adorably cute child actor. We didn't understand why things had to happen as they did. The parents obviously disagreed but the wife went along with the husband. Presumably due to Japanese culture, but I'm sure not all women in Japan are that deferential.
We have a long Netflix queue but most of them are duds that I keep dropping further down the queue as too violent or too depressing. I've wanted to add some of the movies kerouac has seen (the not-violent not-depressing ones) but Netflix doesn't get many of them.
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Post by breeze on Nov 17, 2021 15:27:02 GMT
My sleep became much more regular when I learned to interrupt an unpleasant dream. Once I felt I had that control, I began to have fewer and fewer scary dreams. Now they are rare (hope I didn't jinx myself here).
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Post by breeze on Nov 17, 2021 15:23:10 GMT
Possibly a euonymus?
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Post by breeze on Nov 7, 2021 15:57:38 GMT
Tod, I've sent you the link in a PM. I fell for the place online and in 2019 when we were in France we asked if we could stop by and see it. I figured it could not be as nice as it looked, but it was.
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Post by breeze on Nov 7, 2021 1:33:20 GMT
Going through my trip photos keeps me from realizing I'm now at home. Here's a better photo of the globes.
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Post by breeze on Nov 7, 2021 1:23:31 GMT
Bixa,I'm glad I made you laugh. The garden is the public garden of Mortagne au Perche as seen through the window of the mayor's office. The stone and brick house is in La Ferte Bernard and it the only one of its kind there, as far as I know.
From the top, the hanging ribbons are in L'Aigle which has a busy market on Tuesday mornings.
After the photo of the brick and stone house, that's the Porte Saint-Julien in La Ferte Bernard. In the past they've had hanging umbrellas on display over the pedestrian street, followed the next year by hanging plastic flower pots. This year they put up clear colored globes which bounced lightly in the breeze. I am always on the lookout for planted green walls in France but I've only seen three--this one which only partly covers the wall, a big one at Charles de Gaulle airport, and one in La Gacilly.
This little girl on the carousel in Laval has such a blissful expression.
Plastic wire seems to be keeping these plantings as lush as real water would.
The sculptures in the public garden were a temporary exhibit of works by Fanny Ferre. I remember that most of the ones we saw looked like fired clay, but these don't, now that I take a closer look.
The little shop with the charming blue front sells its own chocolates, breads, and a limited selection of pastries.
We stayed in the house with the blue shutters for a week and I tried cooking with an unfamiliar cooktop and oven. Not my finest meals. I came to the conclusion that it was worthless to cook myself, when there are nearby restaurants so good and affordable.
And the last two photos are of a chateau with amazingly artistic brickwork. I've never seen anything else like it. We were there for the heritage weekend and the owner was recounting the history of the buildings and letting visitors walk around the exterior. The left wing can be rented for large groups and has a tennis court.
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Post by breeze on Nov 6, 2021 23:53:07 GMT
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Post by breeze on Nov 6, 2021 23:29:54 GMT
We were in France this fall. Here are some of the things I saw when I took my eyes off my plate.
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Post by breeze on Nov 6, 2021 23:13:58 GMT
I should have given credit to the mosaicist, Isidore Odorico, and the stained glass artist, Auguste Alleaume.
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Post by breeze on Nov 6, 2021 19:24:36 GMT
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Post by breeze on Jul 4, 2021 18:13:52 GMT
bjd, I had no idea. Thanks for the link. It gave me some more specific search terms that I used to bring up this from 2020: thehustle.co/the-economics-of-the-tour-de-france/The article made the point that the lowest-ranked competitors could make more money working retail for three weeks then they make from the tour.
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Post by breeze on Jul 4, 2021 16:30:54 GMT
I have a question about the finances of the Tour.
We were disappointed that the day the Tour was near Laval, and very close to where we've often stayed, there was nothing but individual time trials. We saw just one or two overhead shots and very few views along the route. This is an area of beautiful countryside but you couldn't tell from the Tour coverage. (The one part we did recognize was the apartment building in Changé just behind where the riders started.)
Anyway, a friend wrote that the area was pleased to be in the spotlight but disappointed that the coverage didn't highlight the bocage and the beauty of the Mayenne, and that the event costs a lot of money. It made me wonder if some of the effort and expense falls on the towns or departments the Tour goes through. Who pays?
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Post by breeze on Jul 2, 2021 12:54:04 GMT
Lovely and graceful, whatagain. It looks like a dogwood to me, one of the cornus family, maybe cornus kousa. They have a unique leaf but I can't get a close look.
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Post by breeze on Jun 30, 2021 15:19:55 GMT
Mick, the delicate details on this last cactus are hard to believe. Have you ever seen the flower as it is expanding?
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Post by breeze on Jun 28, 2021 14:55:07 GMT
Is "nosotres" inclusionary language?
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Post by breeze on Jun 26, 2021 18:55:21 GMT
I think you'll like Letters of a woman homesteader, bixa. It's one of my favorite books in the warm wonderful women category. Supposedly it's nonfiction, but after I read it I looked into it and the results were very interesting. I'll just say nothing I learned afterward took away one jot of my admiration for the book.
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Post by breeze on Jun 24, 2021 11:11:16 GMT
Casimira, somebody having a house built asked a series of good questions on Askmetafilter. No answers yet, but this kind of question on Askme always leads to worthwhile answers. It might be worth checking in on it occasionally over the next few days as more and more answers come in. The poster lives in California so answers may or may not be relevant to New Orleans. ask.metafilter.com/355504/Building-New-Abode-Puts-Me-in-Newbie-Mode#inline-5078171Questa, that's not only clever, but a very attractive solution. In your travels you must have picked up many good ideas about how a house responds to its climate.
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Post by breeze on Jun 21, 2021 18:14:22 GMT
bixa, thanks. I didn't realize that Best Buy and Target have the same big sale days as Amazon. I'll put Target on my list for tomorrow. Best Buy was already on it.
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