Posts filed under ‘About Essoyes’
Here comes autumn…
Almost immediately after the big trucks hauling grapes had stopped making their several-times-a-day runs from the vineyards to the pressoir in Essoyes during the vendange, they were replaced by big trucks hauling loads of wood out of the forest…
Report from Essoyes: Les Vendanges 2018
“It’s been a good year!!” my friend Béthsabée announced, when I stopped by to say hello and ask how the vendange was going this year. “It’s been a very good year,” she added. “It’s the kind of year we’ve been waiting for for 10 years….”
Back Home in Essoyes…
“…I had never really thought about whether or not I had a sacred place before being asked this question; but indeed Essoyes is the one place in this world where over the past couple of years I have felt my soul settling into its most appropriate spot. And there is a deep contentment that goes along with having found that place at last…”
Spring AT LAST!!!!
…I think I can (cautiously) announce that spring is finally here. At least in Essoyes, and all over France…
Spring Coming Soon (we hope…)
The days are suddenly beginning to be quite a bit longer, and thank goodness for that!…
Interview with Our Forestière (Bilingual post)
The latest in a series of interviews I am doing with the people of Essoyes, asking them questions about their lives, their work, and their relationship with the past, present, and future of this place….
Continue Reading February 21, 2018 at 5:53 pm Leave a comment
Bonne Nouvelle Année from Essoyes
“It has NOT been a quiet week in “Lake” Essoyes, my part-time, adopted French home town.
Not quiet at all, no….”
Our Little Bibliothèque
“I have been thinking about libraries lately…”
Continue Reading December 10, 2017 at 1:17 pm Leave a comment
November in Essoyes (2017 Version)
The month began, of course, with Toussaint,…Then there was Armistice Day…
Hallowe’en and Toussaint in Essoyes
The season is entering one of its most beautiful moments, as the leaves turn color and the low-slanting light of autumn works its magic…
Writing from the Heart, Reading for the Road 