Well, so far my favorites image is that of Moret...
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Francis
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Sun 6 Feb, 2005 03:46 pm
A really nice living place! I would be glad to take you there.
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ossobuco
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Sun 6 Feb, 2005 03:59 pm
If I ever make it over to France...
I would like to visit it with you.
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Francis
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Sun 6 Feb, 2005 04:02 pm
It's fifteen minutes from my house. I often go there for the restaurants.
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ossobuco
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Sun 6 Feb, 2005 05:30 pm
You and your family are lucky... it's really lovely.
Hmmm, restaurants..
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CalamityJane
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Sun 6 Feb, 2005 08:46 pm
That was a very nice trip indeed. Thank you Francis,
we shall reciprocate if you ever make it to southern California,
or northern Cal to see osso
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colorbook
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Sun 6 Feb, 2005 10:00 pm
Yes, thank you Francis, it was a very nice trip
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Diane
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Mon 7 Feb, 2005 01:14 am
Eva, you were wonderful to start this thread--it was sorely needed.
Francis, the tour is making a trip to France irresistable. Dys and I would also like to invite you to stay with us if you ever travel to New Mexico. The landscape here is extremely different from that of France but its beauty is compelling.
Osso, I think you must be a direct descendant of the landscape designers in your post.
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Francis
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Mon 7 Feb, 2005 01:49 am
Hey, the trip's not finished! We must come to Paris!
Some of those are, for sure, nices places, not only for food but also for "decor".
However, I've some places, not yet in the internet (traditions) I'll invite you to.
I'm trying to gather pictures for those around Fontainebleau and in Paris.
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ossobuco
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Mon 7 Feb, 2005 02:00 pm
looking forward to them..
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Eva
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Mon 7 Feb, 2005 03:14 pm
Go on ahead, I'll catch up!
Took the full tour at Vaux-le-Vicomtes (fascinating history! Didn't realize this was the place that inspired Versailles), then took the garden tours at Chenonceau. Just exquisite! I'm looking over their wines right now...they said they'd ship some back to the Wine Cellar for us.
Carry on...
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Eva
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Mon 7 Feb, 2005 03:19 pm
By the way, Sophie called last evening. Seems there's a troublesome leak in the ceiling at the Wine Cellar. (She's been looking after the place for us while we're gone.) There's water all over the floor behind the bar. I didn't know what to tell her. Osso, you're our architect...how exactly does one fix a leak in a cave?
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ossobuco
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Mon 7 Feb, 2005 03:21 pm
We'll first turn on the pump, and then call in the A2k structural engineers...
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ossobuco
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Mon 7 Feb, 2005 03:22 pm
Perhaps we can divert it into an attract "rill"...
link to follow.
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ossobuco
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Mon 7 Feb, 2005 03:35 pm
This is a lovely link for Villa Lante - it has black and white photos. Lante is designed with two villas poised at either side of a long water course, which flows from a grotto uphill down through various fountains in line between the villas down to a lower pool.
We could adapt from this to have a Water Table (see the second photo - which gives a place to cool the white wine on the terrace - and the fourth, with the "rill", a stepped water spillway).
Now, that is just brilliant, osso! Leave it to the Italians to come up with the most elegant solutions. Wow. Wait 'til Sophia gets a look at this! I'll have her call your office and schedule the construction immediately. Perhaps it could even be finished in time for our celebration when we return from France!
Francis, do you have a fax machine that osso could use? She needs to send drawings to Sophia at once for approval.
