Brrrrr

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

This part of Brittany does not suffer from excessive snow, yet we have seen plenty of snow fall this winter leaving us with white dangerous roads. Now we have howling winds and rain, closed petrol stations (a strike) and winter is becoming a little tiresome! Still to cheer myself I have been playing with paint and doodling with pencils, any pictures in magazines that inspire me are thrown into a box so I can sit and sketch while cooking dinner.

I recently joined a new forum for artists, photographers, writers, musicians, it is called Total Art Soul and if you are that way inclined do check it out. On a wintery theme here is a painting I did for Illustration Friday, not far from our woodburner.

Wilderness

Fun with frozen puddles the chilled photographer, I must say that I prefer it to all this rain!

~ The Beast ~
Frozen and then never seen again

Hope all is well where you are, and that you can beat the winter blues!

To have the blues is ~ avoir le cafard. (Cafard is actually cockroach)!!!

Sunshine foods

Making light of the Diet

Mediterranean Diet, it makes you live longer?

In France they don't seem to force home "the eat foods from warmer climates" so much, although they are obsessed with the contradictions of eating cheese and chocolate and being thin.

It is hard in Brittany in the three grey months post Christmas to keep cheery, we feel flat and deflated, weary and worn out.

Sunny Winters Day

Sunny Backdrop

So here is to warmer days when you leap out of bed pull back the curtains... and see a sunny morning, BTW it is raining here today!

The French word for brighten up is ensoleillé

The French word for a bed warmer is a chaufferette...(no that isn't a small female driver)!