La Suite at La Lande

20/09/2025

This must be shared.

05/08/2025

Au revoir to family Krempel and best wishes for your onward journey to Paris.

14/07/2025

Patricia Pearson and I are enjoying this week's visitors, Nadine and Thomas Jost, from Germany.

24/06/2025

The Boss and Baez are the best.

“You’re our hope! WE’LL RISE AGAIN! ” Joan Baez, 84, clutched Bruce Springsteen, 75, whispering, “America’s hurting, but your voice heals us,” before their heart-piercing The Ghost of Tom Joad and We Shall Overcome duet at a June 15, 2025, Lincoln Memorial rally for justice! Their voices, raw with decades of fight, joined a gospel choir, moving 50,000 candlelit souls to tears in a plea for love over hate. “This is our stand!” Baez cried, as X blazed with . Watch the soul-stirring moment below! 😱👇

04/05/2025

Making hay while the sun shines. The neighbor's field is an occasional source of entertainment at LaLande.

29/01/2025

Even on a bleak day in January the view from La Suite at La Lande is tranquil. It would be a treat to share it with you.

18/12/2024

We've added a kitchen and a sofa bed for 2025. Check availability on Novasol.com.

03/05/2024

Room With A View
by Dan Dullaghan 3 May 2024

Our south-facing bedroom window
is a treat for the eye in Spring
From there one can see…
A red geranium window box budding with color
A carmine climber rose clinging to its wire wall mount
A delicate, split-leaved acer in its annual opening act
And a harlequin Willow with its pink-tips
Some cheery yellow celandine creeping below
An aged apple with flowered branches that shelters
My potting table made of an up-cycled barn door
A globe shaped red robin stands above a
Healthy trio of neatly trimmed Cottoneaster bushes
Above a clump of emerging yellow-violet iris
Anchored by a low, ivy-covered stone wall
The constant backdrop for pots of vibrant azalea
Interrupted by a pale green garden gate
Leading to a massive, shiny-leaved bay laurel
Inviting the eye beyond to a lush, young spruce
And a tiny, white-budded mountain ash underlaid by lawn
Shoulder to shoulder with a volunteer wild cherry
And a clump of native, hedge-row oaks
There is a recently acquired burgundy-flowering magnolia
At the edge of a small, freshly turned potager
Ready to host its annual crop of beans, beets and courgettes
All framed by an open field, just plowed and smoothed
Ready for its dressing of corn or wheat or clover
Inviting the neighbor’s beefy cows to browse amidst
A flock of ground-pecking chickens who will provide
A welcome supply of eggs and Sunday roasts
To be shared with distant-but-close neighbors
This, is what I see.

20/02/2024

We are taking a break from greeting guests. Missing you already. Please check back this Autumn.