French Gardens and Landscapes {and a give-away!}

"Gardens and Landscapes Inspired by the French Countryside"

My theme for the Castles Crowns and Cottages

"France, Simply Irresistible" blog party hosted by Anita.

At the end of this post will be a link to her blog where all of the participants will be found.

Please bring along your straw hat,

as the weather is sunny and warm!

We'll be traveling through these garden landscapes

and pausing to smell the flowers along the way.

We will meet new friends and discuss the growing of the plants,

which are blossoming so abundantly,

we'll want to come home and embellish our own gardens!

If we get tired on our journey

we can stop in one of the gardens, to rest and read a bit

The sheep are grazing, and feeling lazy in the sunshine

I'm so glad we brought our bikes on a day like this!

We've received an offer to pick bouquets,

and the gardener has given us notes on how to achieve

these luscious blooms!

{and today, like Anita, we can read and understand the French language!)

We see sisters out picking blossoms for their dinner table,

and wish we could join them,

for by now we have worked up quite an appetite!

We probably should sit and rest a while before we continue on

and enjoy the baguettes and cheese we brought along,

and of course some 'bubbly'

It's been such a lovely day

and as evening approaches we near the end of our tour

inspired by the beautiful countryside

on a gorgeous day in France

Thank you for coming on this journey with me!

And there is so much more,

please visit Castles Crowns and Cottages

for the links to other bloggers who are participating.

{click here}

And I hope you will leave a comment

so you will be included in my give-away of a print

of the last image, an oil painting named "Garden Path"

{randomly picked next week}

These paintings and more can be found on my website

Violet Skiles.com

~ Enjoy your adventures through France this week! ~