Category: Figs

Figs, garden, gardening, Insects, Trees

How to say wasp in French… and the fascinating life inside a figue!

"Ignorance is Bliss." Remember this photo from last September? Back then, while eating my way from one end of this fig tree to the other, I had no idea there was more to a fig than meets the eye….  une guêpe (gep)     : wasp Terms, Expressions, and an example sentence: la taille de guêpe = slender-waisted, hourglass figurele nid de guêpe = hornet's … Continue reading How to say wasp in French… and the fascinating life inside a figue!

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Figs, Jules

How to say lawn chair in French

 Photo of front porch, where Mom and I will soon have coffee. The wind blew off the makeshift curtain (an attempt to shade the area at lunchtime…) la chaise-longue (shez- lowng)       : lawn chair  Elle est dans le jardin, en train de lire sur sa chaise-longue. She's in the garden, reading on her lawn chair.  A Day in a French Life… by … Continue reading How to say lawn chair in French

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confiture

            My son, Max, collecting figs from our figuier. Photo: Chris White Mes Confitures: The Jams and Jellies of Christine Ferber. "This book, a best seller in France, presents dozens of recipes, organized by season, for preserves from Black Cherry with Pinot Noir to Greengage and Mirabelle Plum with Mint; a number of them includes chocolate, not a standard addition."–Library Journal. Order … Continue reading confiture

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secouer

For more about this photo, see Photo du Jour (below) Words in a French Life: "…a heart-winning collection from an American woman raising two very French children with her French husband in Provence, carrying on a lifelong love affair with the language." secouer (suh-koo-ay) verb  1. to shake; to shake off; to shake out Expressions:n'avoir rien à secouer = not to give a hootsecouer le … Continue reading secouer

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