tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post929339615349361384..comments2023-10-14T18:34:30.879+02:00Comments on Lost in Arles: Down by the riverbedHeather Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316279029849503437noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-69235134960785666642013-08-13T02:42:14.000+02:002013-08-13T02:42:14.000+02:00Thanks for your guest post, Heather! It was amazin...Thanks for your guest post, Heather! It was amazing but I expected nothing less from you ;-)<br /><br />Clare xSoulful Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12191037713466087670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-88546409326567010112013-08-11T10:42:13.646+02:002013-08-11T10:42:13.646+02:00What a truly lovely compliment, Joan. Merci!!!What a truly lovely compliment, Joan. Merci!!!Heather Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01316279029849503437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-31855503368671116912013-08-11T06:50:28.839+02:002013-08-11T06:50:28.839+02:00A lovely, quiet party, Heather's blog today, f...A lovely, quiet party, Heather's blog today, followed by the after party conversation in the kitchen or front porch, the comments and replies. <br /><br />Hard to say goodnight. <br /><br />Joan, FloridaMadagascarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03206920376051956832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-24859033679632157182013-08-10T11:46:06.879+02:002013-08-10T11:46:06.879+02:00Kipling would try to eat them! I promise you that....Kipling would try to eat them! I promise you that...Heather Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01316279029849503437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-19995667649034370782013-08-10T11:45:21.745+02:002013-08-10T11:45:21.745+02:00Thanks for stopping by Bruce! Looks like I am not ...Thanks for stopping by Bruce! Looks like I am not the only one who thinks so... :)Heather Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01316279029849503437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-12988472582561125632013-08-10T11:34:55.979+02:002013-08-10T11:34:55.979+02:00Hey Bruce Barone? So, you follow Heather's bl...Hey Bruce Barone? So, you follow Heather's blog? Well...I follow yours. Just for the record?..... your blog, Heather's, Sharon Santoni's, and Dominique Browing's are the only ones I "follow".....so that I can start every morning with at least one beautiful or (at the very least) interesting posting by one or several of you.<br /><br />It's always a good way to start the day.<br /><br />Admiringly (I do like your work, of course),<br /><br />David Terrydavid terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18009130338123162371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-11821944500003245582013-08-10T07:29:39.762+02:002013-08-10T07:29:39.762+02:00Yes, why not...I think your lovely dogs can not sc...Yes, why not...I think your lovely dogs can not scared fairies off they rather will get mesmerised<br />Mumbaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11371965577645396996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-51133917730879118962013-08-09T21:04:05.353+02:002013-08-09T21:04:05.353+02:00very ticklish indeedvery ticklish indeedBruce Baronehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08262814724740244551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-61672559412365887132013-08-09T18:26:36.776+02:002013-08-09T18:26:36.776+02:00That is so true. And blues too. :) And thank you b...That is so true. And blues too. :) And thank you but like I said, I just got lucky with the light. <br />Bisous!Heather Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01316279029849503437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-11303301542561592572013-08-09T18:25:52.176+02:002013-08-09T18:25:52.176+02:00That compliment means quite, quite a lot coming fr...That compliment means quite, quite a lot coming from you. Thank you. The second down is my favorite that I have taken in a really long time. Just got lucky with the light.<br /><br />And all too sadly, as an ex-waitress at a high-power Italian restaurant just across from Lincoln Center, I know EXACTLY what you mean. Yep. But somehow I don't play that tape at all in my head in France. It is rare we go out and when we do, I just focus on the food. Lord knows it isn't about SERVICE anyway here. <br /><br />But anywho, I would just add that I agree it is not a bad gig. Actually, I think that every American should be required to work at least one week in any service job (retail, dining, hotels and the lot). Would do them a lot of good. If it weren't so physically exhausting, I would go back to waiting tables (and who knows, I might have to one of these days) for how much I learned about the human condition and also for the money--although I did have a tendency to spend that 500 a night cash, not save it...hmmm...Heather Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01316279029849503437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-19557726934158987572013-08-09T18:10:49.461+02:002013-08-09T18:10:49.461+02:00I always love your comments, Mumbai. Fairies!! Why...I always love your comments, Mumbai. Fairies!! Why not? Maybe the dogs scared them off??? :)Heather Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01316279029849503437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-57215179972251394292013-08-09T18:09:56.989+02:002013-08-09T18:09:56.989+02:00Whoohoo!!! Lucky you, Leslie--82 sounds divine. Bu...Whoohoo!!! Lucky you, Leslie--82 sounds divine. But I had to smile--it is Kipling! Not Ripley. But wow if we had thought of Ripley, that would probably have been a better name because he is one handsome devil--and I do mean devil--!Heather Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01316279029849503437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-15099576268405029692013-08-09T18:08:27.130+02:002013-08-09T18:08:27.130+02:00Thanks so much Khammany and welcome! I am delighte...Thanks so much Khammany and welcome! I am delighted to have you here. Like chez Sharon, I have very, very wonderful readers and friends. :) And oh, I know that feeling about losing your heart over a place--that is why we left Paris for Arles. Hopefully next time you will swing down further into Provence--it is worth it!Heather Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01316279029849503437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-39929907251519722292013-08-09T18:06:43.173+02:002013-08-09T18:06:43.173+02:00Wyn, there were about one hundred paintings to be ...Wyn, there were about one hundred paintings to be done there...Heather Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01316279029849503437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-85238048758261138472013-08-09T18:06:03.342+02:002013-08-09T18:06:03.342+02:00I would have loved to have heard the little trickl...I would have loved to have heard the little trickle of the creek though--next time!Heather Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01316279029849503437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-63901138638240765812013-08-09T18:04:30.930+02:002013-08-09T18:04:30.930+02:00Thanks Snoozle. hehehe. Siestas are not only for M...Thanks Snoozle. hehehe. Siestas are not only for Mexico!Heather Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01316279029849503437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-19939247016941186822013-08-09T18:03:48.473+02:002013-08-09T18:03:48.473+02:00Of course that made me laugh! Blogger liked it so ...Of course that made me laugh! Blogger liked it so much that it published the comment twice!!!Heather Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01316279029849503437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-36615218774705500072013-08-09T18:03:17.993+02:002013-08-09T18:03:17.993+02:00Thank you Karena! It was so very beautiful there a...Thank you Karena! It was so very beautiful there and the morning light was perfect. :)Heather Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01316279029849503437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-86491254508196216892013-08-09T18:02:39.226+02:002013-08-09T18:02:39.226+02:00Lucky you, Laura!!! I am really tired of being cit...Lucky you, Laura!!! I am really tired of being city bound. This break did us so much good. And yes the light...in French there is a beautiful word for it, "tamisé"...I like it more than dappled!Heather Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01316279029849503437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-66714692133418560612013-08-09T18:01:20.231+02:002013-08-09T18:01:20.231+02:00What about a Balinese day bed? :) No nasties that ...What about a Balinese day bed? :) No nasties that I could see G but why not?Heather Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01316279029849503437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-76355112060060713352013-08-09T17:02:50.004+02:002013-08-09T17:02:50.004+02:00What about a mosquito net to hang canopy-like over...What about a mosquito net to hang canopy-like over the hammock?Judith Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12079409605010969088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-70539754100497849342013-08-09T14:02:17.189+02:002013-08-09T14:02:17.189+02:00Agree with David re: your photographs. Isn't i...Agree with David re: your photographs. Isn't it amazing how you can find almost every shade of green in nature and they all work beautifully together? Judith Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12079409605010969088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-26915292188710090442013-08-09T13:28:33.565+02:002013-08-09T13:28:33.565+02:00Dear Heather, I smiled at your comment about being...Dear Heather, I smiled at your comment about being able to enter a place and, within 7 seconds (and consequent upon your former work), find youself able to cite Everything Wrong with the arrangements, etcetera.<br /><br />Just last night (having turned down, for about the fifth time, an invitation to some local, fashionable, new restaurant), I finally confessed to some new friends (the old ones all know this about me and don't bother inviting me anywhere) that, while I'm sure it's a PERFECTLY WONDERFUL JOINT, WITH ABSOLUTELY MARVELOUS FOOD....I don't want to go there....and that I've eaten in an American restaurant exactly twice in ten years.<br /><br />Throughout ten years of gradskool, I worked the front for a high-end catering company (the sort that "does" the Governor's daughter's wedding, blahblah)...and, then, for a swishy restaurant (yes....consistently named "One of America's Fifty Best").<br /><br />It was all considerably more perfection-driven and demanding, actually, than the Duke English Department. I should emphasize that I enjoyed the work and still miss it sometimes (odd...since I never miss teaching).<br /><br />Nonetheless (And this is entirely my problem, I know), I can't sit in a restaurant without my attention drifting away from my friends, as I suddenly notice "They're down at least two busboys in the front of the room"..."First courses are coming out too slowly; someone's screwing up on the prep-line"..."She's taking folks to table 14, and it's missing a salad fork"...."The folks at table 23 have been waiting over ten minutes for their check"....etcetera. It's just dreadful (or maybe I'm just dreadful, since I always find myself MENTIONING these lapses; friends have had to say "Please promise me you're not going to get up and go bus that neighboring table....??".<br /><br />It's like going on a date with a dentist who won't stop staring at your teeth (this happened to me once...but never again)<br /><br />Oh well, I'm glad to read that I'm not the only person burdened with vocational-memory.<br /><br />And your photographs are particularly fine this go-round, Heather; you must be enjoying yourself.<br />----david terry<br />www.davidterryart.comdavid terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18009130338123162371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-50073307151497599192013-08-09T12:55:47.773+02:002013-08-09T12:55:47.773+02:00When you look through your soul (like you) you wil...When you look through your soul (like you) you will always see the little<br />wonders in our world. Looking the pictures I attain childhood and in my fantasy I expect the fairies come out from behind the trees and ask me if I have a wish. I also love the<br />silent in the forest which you, figuratively speaking,can hear in that place.<br />Mumbaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11371965577645396996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498719763759636773.post-1980942112951263362013-08-09T06:32:41.244+02:002013-08-09T06:32:41.244+02:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04072342787536727765noreply@blogger.com