Flowers are a necessity, not a luxury. Did I choose our B & B in France because it was close to the Beziers Flower Market? Possibly.
So many lovely blooms. How could I ever make a decision?
My choice:
No, not him! The flowers in his hand!
Bloomin’ big blousy blossoms!
They are peonies by the way. And his name was André. He wasn’t for sale.
Ailsa’s Travel Theme this week is blossom.
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I’m not going to say beautiful, in case you think I’m interested in your French Flower Man… But would it not be nice if our cameras could also capture the magnificent aroma that must have accompanied the flowers…
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Somehow I wouldn’t think he would appeal to you. But thanks for the almost compliment! The market was fantastic.
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Wowser…I think you should of bargained harder and bought him♥
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At least I got a good deal on the flowers!
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PEONIES! Oh how I miss my Peonies! Thank you for the memories!
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I had some in my garden too. Now I’m making do with cut flowers. I have some peonies now. They went from golf ball size to six inch blooms!
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Sa-weet! 😀
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🙂
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Great peonies, well you know already how much I love peonies, but Andre ain’t bad 😉
As an aside: It’s interesting that Americans translate blossom as any flower, whereas I think we Brits think of blossom specifically being ‘fruit blossom’ like apple, pear and cherry with frothy confetti-like flowers that is gone in an instant when the wind blows. http://wp.me/p3jVw4-K6
Jude xx
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Yes, I thought about that. There has been quite a lot of spring blossom here, although not the kind you are speaking of. So I just went with flowers. 🙂
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Beautiful Captures – makes me smile and brightens my day – Nothing better than flowers 🙂 Happy Week!
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Thank you. Keep smiling. All week! 😀
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Very nice. And the peonies aren’t bad either. 😉
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Yeah, well, what can I expect? haha 😉
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Gorgeous peonies, one of my favorite flowers! I agree with you that flowers are a necessity, not a luxury. Wildflowers in the landscape provide most of my flower-fix these days, but I still often bring in a bloom or two for a tiny vase in the trailer.
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It’s hard to do without our flower-fix isn’t it?
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Next to birds, flowers are my favorite. See it is best not to delete pictures, for you will never know what the next theme would be!
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That’s very true but I’m sure there are loads of duds that need to be culled . . . . . . . one day . . . . maybe when my hard drive starts to groan.
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The 10G I purge were all duds, imagine that 🙂
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They probably weren’t duds, as such, but you just had better ones!
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A necessity? – well said and I couldn’t agree with you more. When we pulled into our boondock site in Moab I couldn’t stop smiling with the blooms visible in all directions. Love flowers and especially wildflowers 🙂
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Wildflowers are always a nice, and free, surprise!
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Stunning and Andre is not so bad either! 😉
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. . . and I wouldn’t have minded the language barrier! Hahaha!
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Who needs talk? 😉
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Oooo! What are you saying? 😕
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You will just have to read between the lines. 😉
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I think I did. 😉
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😀
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Ahhh… I still remember the days when an André might have been tempting. 🙄
The peonies are scrumptious. They just seem so damned extravagant.
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If I grew them in my garden (my non-existent garden) I would never cut them but they weren’t that expensive at the market. Result!
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I cut mine because if I don’t, the wind knocks them to the ground – especially the big blousy ones that are too heavy for their stems. Besides I get to see more of them in the house. That’s what I love about Europe, they seem to offer so many more flowers at the markets.
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You have to buy flowers at the grocery store here. It’s not quite the same is it? 😕
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And nowhere near the variety that’s available. Most likely because Americans don’t generally think of buying flowers except for certain rare special occasions and then the flowers tend to be rather expensive. Very different attitude I suspect. Can’t overlook the fact that there’s never an André selling them either! 😀
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You’re right there! The lady at Safeway is certainly not as appealing as Andre!
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They are BOTH beautiful! 🙂
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Too true, but I was only allowed the flowers!
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Darn those rules of life! LOL
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😀
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Wow! Great photography. Beautiful flowers! Hello Andre!
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Hello indeed! Isn’t he a pretty boy! Gave me a good deal on the flowers as well. 😀
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Oh! All the flower markets in Paris…..how could you ever decide? Perhaps we should write our own book for future trips…we could go around and photograph all the lovely markets with all their lovely…..accessories (accesexories?). Am thinking it would be much easier to pick a place to stay if we knew the full extent of the aMENities!
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Oh boy! What got you going? The markets, the flowers or the man? 😆
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Sorry…just have a strange mood going on today. Did love your pix of the flowers though…..just springy and perfect.
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Don’t apologize for goodness sake. I thought your comment was sooo clever! Sit back down and work on your blog while your “strange” mood lasts! 🙂
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Ugh….I am working on my prompt for this week and I am SO STUCK. The prompt is A Spider’s Web and I’m trying to tie that into an experience from this weekend. It’s not an easy one! But I am working. Am now hoping for strange mood to go away…..it seems to be hindering me! 🙂 Writing – don’t you love it?
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I’m trying something here. Let’s see if it works.
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Oh, this is most interesting! I should’ve asked you before! Will have to see what you think of what I came up with this week. I’ll post as usual on Thursday…..I’m going for a more abstract web…..my class writings are supposed to incorporate family history/personal experiences but boy…I could’ve segued off of this picture so easily! Next time, I’m stuck….I’m coming to you first!
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Well I don’t know what you got from that! It was getting late and I wasn’t sure the photo would come through on the comment. When it did, I thought you’d think I was a little crazy but that didn’t stop me going to bed anyway! Have a good week and I’ll look for you on Thursday.
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I love the humor you added to these wonderful collections of blooms. Andre didn’t come with the bouquet? Too bad. 🙂
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I had my minder with me. I don’t think he would have been impressed if I tried to take a toy boy home with me.
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Yes that is good thinking 🙂
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Better for the marriage! lol
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I definitely concur. Good choice. 🙂
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He’d probably be laughing his head off if he knew all this banter was going on. I wonder what our age difference is? I’m not going to embarrass myself and hazard a guess! 😕 lol
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By the looks of it I think less than five years 🙂
You’re welcome.
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Hahaha! Now I”M laughing my head off. But I like you. 😉
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Excellent! The feeling is mutual. 🙂
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😉
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We had huge peony bushes in our yard when I was young–gorgeous but I also remember that they always seemed to attract lots of ANTS!
Beautiful photos as usual!
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Thank you! I didn’t need to worry about ants. My peonies came with a handsome young man!
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Absolutely lovely. 🙂
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Thank you! Can I take all the credit for pretty flowers?
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Wow, what a fantastic market, must have been so hard to make a choice. And of course the answer is – the guy and the flowers!
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I have to admit I spotted him when I first got to the market, perused all the flowers and decided to try out my hesitant French on him!
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Beautiful!
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Thank you. The guy or the flowers?
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