Posts tagged ‘champagne’
A Peek Ahead at the Year of Renoir
“This year is the Year of Renoir not just in Essoyes, but throughout l’Aube, the dĂ©partement in which Essoyes is located, in the Champagne region of France…”
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Early Winter in Essoyes
“I have always loved the beauty of lakes, oceans, forests. But it was not until I got to settle into life on our beautiful little patch of countryside that I was able to notice certain interesting and beautiful things in nature that I had never really noticed before, things that were not on the “macro” scale of sunsets and landscapes…”
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September in Essoyes…
It has not been an easy year for the vignerons in this area, whose year-round, painstaking, exacting work brings the world one of life’s greatest pleasures…champagne…
August in Essoyes
…some people leave to go to the South of France on vacation, and others come here to vacation, mostly from Paris, but also from Belgium and other places. You can tell the tourists from the townspeople (or the summer people) by the little maps they clutch in their hands as they walk the streets, following the trail of Renoir in Essoyes…
Springtime in Essoyes
…the vines on the surrounding hills are slowly beginning to turn green, and the forested hills, which were a kind of brownish gray in early spring, have already done so…
Q&A with “Anne de Champagne,” a French painter
“My job is to create a wave of happiness around me….” Interview with an Essoyenne painter in pursuit of a beautiful tradition…
Writing from the Heart in Essoyes
Fond memories of Writing from the Heart 2008…and anticipation of a new adventure in Essoyes!
Essoyes, a wonderful little village in Champagne
…a perfect place to steal away and write from the heart…
What is Writing from the Heart?
What does it really mean, to “write from the heart?” And how does one find the courage, or the stamina, to do so?…”Writing is not about grammar, it is about telling the truth,” says Nancy Slonim Aronie, in her wonderful book…
Writing from the Heart, Reading for the Road 