Last two weeks

I've been super lazy about updating. Frankly, there's not much new going on. So, other than pictures of my apartment, here's my last two weeks in a nutshell.

Pink Magnolias

A raven hunting

I see butts!!

Black swans

Little ducky family

Cherry Blossoms

Pretty

Don't know what these are, but they're pretty

Late blooming Sakura tree

Germain figured I would like this more than flowers, He was right....un Fraiser

Garden (Lots of pictures!)

Yesterday was a beautiful day! We had relatively warm weather and the sun was shining bright. We took advantage of that and visited a garden right outside of Paris. I've been wanting to go to this garden for a while. According to reviews, it is a nice walk and it has one of the nicest views of cherry blossoms. As I mentioned in the last post, it's been pretty cold so there hasn't been a lot of blooms, and the garden wasn't as flowery as it normally is, but it was still a very nice walk and we were still able to see some pretty scenery.

This garden (Jardin Albert Kahn) was strongly influenced by the Japanese style. They had several Japanese inspired (if not really from there) sculptures, bridges and buildings. Many of the shrubbery reminded me of something you would see in a Japanese garden.

field of wild flowers

Pretty

Cherry Blossoms

Easter weeken in Cannes

For Easter, Germain got a extra day off of school so we went to Cannes for the holiday. Unfortunately the weather was cold and rainy most of our stay, but on Sunday, we had absolutely wonderful weather. We didn't do much over the break. I feel like all we did was eat! I guess that's the holidays. On Sunday, we went to the house of a friend of Germain's parents. She has a beautiful garden where we walked around a little.

Calla Lily

Pretty Garden

Reminds me of Florida

When we came back to Paris on Tuesday and it was still cold =( It was sunny out on Wednesday afternoon so I went out for a walk with a mission to catch some spring blossoms. Unfortunately tho, the spring is very cold, so not many trees have bloomed yet. I was only able to find a couple. Hopefully, it'll get warmer in the next couple of weeks and I'll be able to see some new bloom.

Almond Blossoms

Magnolia

I think this is a Cherry Blossom, I couldn't get closer

It's Spring!!

....not that it's much warmer =P It it slowly making it's way to the mid 40's tho. And that's considered warmer.

However, we took a walk the other day and saw tiny first signs of spring. The flowers were very few and the skies were still gray, but this means there will be more soon!

Spring is coming

The weather is definitely getting warmer. We won't have to layer up as much anymore. Can't wait until I only need to wear a light jacket. Soon.

The flowers and trees are also starting to blossom.

On Sunday we took a walk around a park. It's a park known for it's hills. People use to mine stones for building buildings and houses from this park.

A little lake in the park.

a place on top of the hill where there is a nice view

And here are some pictures of food I made. Hehe. But I have to say that pictures make them look a lot better than they taste =P

Before version on the veggie gratin

Add some cheese and bread crumbs, bake for 30-45 minutes. Done!

My attempt at chasiu. Home made sauce (not the premade lee kum kee stuff)  Not too bad ^_^

Tomato pie. Germain's mom's recipe. Pretty good.

Enjoy!