A little white loveliness from the inside and the outside.
The top image is one of a fan that I found at a brocante some weeks back…Made of parchment type paper with a wooden frame, the face of the fan is handwritten with a mix of Italian and French language…I think the fan is some kind of travel memento celebrating a trip between Turin and Paris in 1891…This piece was in beautiful condition and the handwriting was so well preserved that I thought it deserved to come home….It has a new life in our sitting room now and has seemingly travelled from Turin to Paris and on to Saint Rémy de Provence…
Some of our irises are still flowering…which is long overdue but with the extended summer this year perhaps they have been tricked. Even though they are short lived I find the iris and all her various shades very lovely…So lovely, that I have recently split all of our bulbs in an attempt to border our driveway….Did you know that the iris, if not split every two years, will revert to the classic pale blue/purple shade? This is what I am told happens in Provence and that is why there are so many overgrown clumps of pale blue growing wildly in the countryside….I am aiming for the majority of my blooms to remain white….so splitting I will be and planting I will continue…for the near future…or until I have enough to completely line both sides of our driveway….
