Aquarium ( Cahier 9 / Boulogne-sur-mer 2007)

Rainy vacations in the North of France.

La petite voiture ( Cahier 9 / Cape Cod 2007 )

Play play and play !
At 9 pm it is time to go to bed "but look maman, it is still light outside".

Love for Nature ( Cahier 9 / Cape Cod 2007 )

The baby-sitter that we hired for the summer through Craigslist forgot to tell us that she
was not so much of a nature girl. The day after her arrival at hour house, she litterally ran away,
leaving while we were at the beach. Actually we didn't miss her that much.

Postcard 2002

Yes, really, L.A sky at night...It's beautiful.

Traffic ( Los Angeles )

Aaaaah yes, the famous L.A traffic...it's time to forget about it,
time for vacations ! Soon.

Francis Cabrel ( Cahier 9 / Los Angeles )

We baught the tickets with my 2 french girlfriends totally sneering.
Once there, we got caught by the very charming personality of the french singer,
and by the fact that we know all his songs, even if we are not fans :
obviously,he his just part of french culture. We had a very good time.

Mangrove ( Cahier 9 / Costa Rica )

The Mangrove forest looks beautiful, but not very friendly.

Belle-maman au Costa Rica ( Cahier 9 / Costa Rica )

Marilyn really enjoyed a lot those little monkeys.
They actually were a lot of fun.

Postcard 2001

The first thing that I noticed and really liked moving in L.A
is the specific color of the sky at night.

Martha ( Cahier 8 / New-York )

Martha was definitively the perfect beautiful bride.
Mazel Tov !

Pool Game ( Cahier 8 / New-York )

Martha had the wonderful idea to organize her wedding's night in an old gentlemen club of New York.
We had a lot of fun, and Gabriel especially enjoyed A LOT the pool table.

Deers ( Cahier 8 / Yosemite )

Since I am a little girl I am hoping to see those famous deers, supposed to cross the road anytime in every possible forest.
Never happened, until this winter, in Yosemite park. I was petrified ! Actually it turned out that this park is filled with deers,
and we saw so many of them crossing the road that it killed the fun. Next time , I'm hoping for a bear.

Appaloosa ( Cahier 8 / Mandeville Canyon L.A )

Visiting a house in Mandeville Canyon (a zoning that allows horses) I saw my first Appaloosa,
originally from the native Indians Nez Perce. All those spots ! Beautiful.

Yuki and Coco ( Cahier 8 / New-York )

Yuki loves Coco so much that she takes him in a little bag in restaurants, something that is
TOTALLY forbidden.Fortunately this evening we didn't get kicked out of the fondue restaurant where we ate.

Red Light ( Cahier 8 / New-York )

The energy of the city keeps everybody up pretty late, especially people arriving from L.A !
It was a fun evening with Sophie and her friends, and Matisse was a very well behaved little boy.

Haircut ( Cahier 8 / Los Angeles )

Yesterday Felix and Gabriel got a haircut.Bye bye curls. They look good though,
they look like tough boys !

Soccer and rain ( Cahier 8 / Verton )

To play soccer with Grand-Mere Chantal at midgnight in the veranda was really a lot of fun !

The day after, it was raining ( what a surprise ).

Cormorants Colony ( Cahier 8 / Cape Cod )

Cormorants are cool birds : they float underwater and then they need to dry. And very classy with their all-blak look and long neck.

Baby-Sitter ( Cahier 8 / Cape Cod )

Agathe turned out to be a very agreable and rather effective baby-sitter.We loved her. Now back in Paris, she is currently working very hard on weekends to pay back the monstruous phone bill she left.
And the poor little crab in the beak of the seagull didn't make it : he really was trying his best to escape
but he got dropped on a rock and that was it.

Papillons ( Cahier 8 / Cape Cod )

What were doing those two butterflies on the sand of the beach ?
Full sun, nothing to eat, lots of kids ready to step on them... It's a mystery.

Rock'n'Roll ( Cahier 8 / Cape Cod )

Felix feels like a rock star wearing Agathe's white sunglasses. Actually, he totally looks ( and sounds ) like a very young Robert Plant.

A la plage ( Cahier 8 / Cape Cod )

There is no way that Felix will take a nap on the beach.
Maybe all those stripes are too much stimulation.

Pink Stetson ( Cahier 8 / Cape Cod )

I feel SO american with my new pink cowboy hat !
I don't even have to look at Ira to know what he thinks about it :
He just LOVES it .

Picnic ( Cahier 8 / Cape Cod )

Lunch will be served in the incredibly colorful plastic picnic tableware that I love so much,
everybody is ready, even Tic and Tac, the 2 chipmunks nesting nearby.

Postcard 2001

A postcard sent from Cape Cod to Verton (France) when I had time to do things like
sewing a piece of painted fabric on cardboard... That was Before Kids.
Anyway...More drawings to come in September.

Postcard

See you in August !

Cahier 7 L.A ( June 2006 )

We baught 3 artichokes, so big, they were bigger than the
head of the kids.

Pelicans ( Cahier 6 )

As my friend Matthew puts it " if there is an animal I find
totemic of our part of SoCal, it is the pelican." I agree, I will just add the
opossum, rather exotic for me.

Cahier 7 more June 2006

Starting Vacations : long walks by the beach in Santa Monica, and delicious blablabla all in french .

Postcard 2005

A postcard to welcome M&F, moving from Boston to L.A. It was for a new job oportunity of course,
but everybody knows that life in California looks like perpetual vacations.

Cahier 7 June 2006

Ivan and Oliver at Paradise Cove, Malibu.

Cahier 7 ( 2004/2006 Cape Cod )

Cape Cod ( Cahier 7 )

Berck-sur-Mer ( Cahier 7 )

Cahier 6 2003/2005 Rio

Los Angeles ( Cahier 6 )

L.A more ( Cahier 6 )