Archive for June, 2007



A Life in Rose!

So while I was sleeping in rose petals, I dreamed of…you guessed it…

Isn’t this a pretty rose? (Oops, there I go taunting “Paris Glace” again! The full post on glaciers is coming soon, I promise.)
The roses that are grown for their oils around Grasse are the Rosa centifolia, or as they are often […]

Fleurs

All around Grasse in the south of France, the world is full of flowers.
Maybe most of those old fields of flowers have been sold, turned into “concrete fields” as one rose grower said, or villas.
But the people who live there have kept flowers as their identity, what makes them unique and beautiful. They are […]

The Moral of the Chocolate

Several people have discussed the moral of the chocolate story or asked me to propose one.
People. Asking me to propose a moral for this event is just a LEETLE bit like asking the European Enlightenment to propose a moral for the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. IT’S NOT A GOOD IDEA.
LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO VOLTAIRE […]