Morges Tulip Festival

Back in end April, we visited the nearby town of Morges for its famous annual tulips festival in a park situated on the shores of Lake Geneva. This is where we saw the dahlias in July.



The hundreds of varieties of tulips in neat flowerbeds ran from the palest bridal pinks, cheery sunny yellow, voluptuous reds, bright corals to brooding smoky amethyst.












It has been an extremely rainy spring, causing several of these heavy blooms to bend under their own weight.

































There's simply no better way to spend a leisurely Sunday than enjoying these gifts of nature. Pity we didn't have any luck planting tulips in our own garden this year although we did get some lovely alliums, lupins and irises with the hydrangeas just starting to bud. Hope you have a lovely weekend ahead!

Evian Le Fabuleux Village

Over the new year break, we took a drive around Lake Geneva. On arriving in Evian, we came across strange wooden creatures peppered along the streets and in the waters.



Turns out that this is the annual year-end event known as "Le fabuleux village ou la legend des Flottins" - a quaint little village of wooden sculptures formed from driftwood found on the lake and nearby rivers. In the evenings, stories of the "flottins", the imaginary creatures that haunt the lake, are told. The official website is here.



We wandered through the village amongst all manner of odd fantastical and ghoulish creatures fashioned from humble wood, with a rough-hewn grace.













This giant rodent watching over the village was particularly striking.


Have a good week ahead!