From the Past...

I've technically been blogging since the spring of 2008. That's a little over three years, which is strange to think.

Anyways.

My original blog was meant primarily for my friends and family to read while I was studying abroad in France during my sophomore year in college. It's fun for me to go back from time to time and read some entries from my travels...one stuck out to me recently so I thought I would share. {also this is my attempt to make more blog posts on this blog...even if it is a recycled post...shhhh}

Sunday, May 11, 2008

When I read on our calendar that we were going to Giverny I had no initial excitement or extreme interest, because I had no idea what or even where Giverny was. When I found out that it would the place of Monet’s gardens I was very pleased: I like Monet it would be nice to see the garden’s that he painted so often.

If I had only known in that moment—when we walked up to Monet’s house you could not help but fall in love with everything around you.



The colors of the flowers were magnificent, and as our tour guide told us, were very particularly planted by Monet. He mixed certain warm and cool colors together to create a feeling or to draw your eyes in a certain way. Monet would love to see how the light played off of the different mixtures of color—it was just amazing to hear all of the specific detail he placed in his garden.
When we crossed the road toward the Japanese water garden my mind was still on the rows and rows of flowers back at the house, but when we came upon the water and the weeping willows my heart was stolen again.

Monet really knew how to capture the imagination through natural beauty. He saw how humanity grows and can really live through nature. He was a little eccentric (a little more than most) but his genius has left the world with beautiful works of art and with a garden restored to its original beauty to again tempt the public as it had tempted him.


My best friend/roommate Anna and me in Monet's garden...obviously having too much fun.