DREAMING

from House Beautiful

Wouldn't I be just here, if given half a chance...

DINNER TONIGHT

Creative or inventive cooking has been on a short sabbatical, but today CA and I both dived back into the soup...

Yesterday while I finally went to see The Kids are All Right with RvH, CA visited the Woodstock Farmer's Market in search of some local corn and tomatoes. Two weeks early for the tomatoes, he was told, so we'll wait until then for a panzanella salad. Good news, though the sweet corn is at its peak. He also found some lovely fresh peaches

Today we've been doing a bunch of just hanging out, but CA was inspired to make a rustic peach tart.

BROKEN ENGLISH

Inadvertenly another French film, kind of... No subtitles to make me feel smart.

BROKEN ENGLISH
2007

The film is set in New York City where a woman in her late thirties (Nora Wilder, played by Parker Posey has little luck finding love until she meets Julien (very cute Melvil Poupaud), a quirky Frenchman, who sweeps her off her feet and opens her eyes to a lot more than love.


The film screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, and ultimately garnered five award nominations, among them the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.

A lot more entertaining that The Kids are All Right, which I saw in a theater earlier in the day. Not sure about Parker Posey... She got the angst of the unmarried NY career (?) woman right, but she's not a favorite.
 

RESURFACING, Two ways.

I'm coming up for air. I took two complete days off from life--cooking, exercising, socializing... CA was out of town at Gigi's and I was able to dive under the radar. Bliss.

And, our driveway is on its way toward resurfacing--the blacktop kind. That is, if the rain ever ceases. I'm actually loving the rain. Our landscaping is lush and our flowers are perky. Our front window and back French doors actually steamed up today. I've never seen that happen before today. A true indication of the humidity level here in northern Illinois.

Yoga today, but not tomorrow because I always take Saturdays off. 6:00am yoga today. Painful, bleary-eyed yoga today. Friday's yogi is gentle and kind and takes into consideration that it's 6:00am yoga. Bliss.

I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG, A French Film

I've Loved You So Long
(Il y a longtemps que je t'aime)

2008
PG-13
117 minutes

After more than a decade apart, estranged sisters Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) and Lea (Elsa Zylberstein) try to rebuild their fractured relationship. But the task is hardly easy, considering Juliette's past: She's been in jail for 15 years -- for killing someone. As she settles into small-town life with Lea's family, the locals can't help but talk. Writer-director Philippe Claudel's feature film debut garnered him a Golden Globe nomination.

Well done. Kristin Scott Thomas may have been a risky choice in this French film. She does introspective, distant, and secretive well.