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Post by bunkie on Oct 24, 2009 14:03:45 GMT -5
awesome michel! so beautiful, all of it/them! thanks so much for posting.
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Post by tatermater on Oct 25, 2009 16:54:02 GMT -5
My last leg of the European tour has reached a climactic end. Now to return home Tuesday.
I wish to thank anyone who has attended one of my workshops or those of Michel and yours truly. Some of you may sign up from where ever you are in Europe as we mentioned Homegrowngoodness.
I have become a more knowledgeable person on seed matters and I will be a trreless proponent of organic seed.
Tom
Wagner
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Post by canadamike on Oct 25, 2009 21:16:25 GMT -5
I have a good anecdote: like any man in the world, I wanted to see the french riviera beaches and the ( so they say) most beautiful women in the world in bikinis. I arrived in Nice one day earlier, my contact in the medieval town of Ste-Marie in the Verdon area ( still the southern Alps) having to go to a meeting, I arrived in the early afternoon, then in my hotel room was getting ready to finally go the beach, a 5 minutes trip, but I fell asleep only to wake up the next day. I had a great lunch, a true salade nicoise ( when in Nice...) and a fabulous steak. I went back to my room, to put on my bathing suit and hit the beach, but there was a bed in the room. I laid on it....and woke up 24 hours later. So much for the beach and the half naked Bardots of this world  In the meantime, while coming back from lunch the second day, I had called Alan Carter, my next appointment, and asked him to enslave me the next day, I needed to put my hands in the ground, talking about gardening is not enough for me. I was tired but NEEDED to be able to say I had worked ground in Europe. The next day, Alan joined me at the hotel and we went in one of his for gardens, close to where I was. He had to go, but was happy to use a slave, and left me alon with Heidrun and their son Nanuk, we had to transplant for hours. Here is a picture of Alan and Heidrun, taken late at night after a cruelling day of work, notice how, even half dead, she is so beautiful, imagine her around noon:  I spent 4-5 hours with her, transplanting cabbages and mustards. I was so incredibly tired, I could hardly carry my own weight. But she is so beautiful, even without ANY CAPABILITIES to even start thinking of any form of desire ( I slept for 7 days coming back, most of the days close to 20 hours) , even almost dead , I can tell you one thing: without any lust, the beauty of a woman ( hence the beauty of life, hence pure beauty wherever you find it, even in a singing bird or the smell of a flower) can cary you through the day. Life, even when you are pushed to your extreme limits, even when you do not know if you are still really living or simply carrying the weight of your own meat, can always provide you with something beautiful to send you travelling towards tomorrow. |
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Post by tatermater on Oct 27, 2009 2:33:35 GMT -5
For the record. I am home.
Tom
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Post by PatrickW on Oct 27, 2009 5:08:11 GMT -5
Tom: Thank you so much for the presentation workshop in England! I'm glad you made it home okay. I hope you get a good night sleep tonight.
I really have a lot to get back to you about, and as soon as I can I'm going to post some pictures and videos on my blog.
Michel: Thanks for all the pictures and stories!
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Post by Penny on Oct 27, 2009 5:48:31 GMT -5
Glad that everyone had such a great time and arrived home safe and sound.
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Post by grungy on Oct 27, 2009 6:01:55 GMT -5
Welcome home, Tom. We missed you. And hope to hear much more about your trip and workshops.
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Post by tatermater on Oct 27, 2009 9:15:43 GMT -5
For the record, Patrick and Steph allowed me the time to summarize my tour on the final day of events. It sure is nice to have ready friends everywhere I have gone.
I woke up after having a few hours of sleep with memories of a dream of structuring yet another workshop. The dream was like a real life interactive web service with recorded infoblab and suggested germplasm growouts!
The dream actually made sense as a clickable video loop with inputs from visitors as they signed on.
Oh, Well.....got to put the mind to rest as it has been on the go for nearly two months.
Tom.
BTW Patrick...your get together was perfect for a way to wind down the tour.
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Post by canadamike on Oct 27, 2009 16:11:53 GMT -5
Glad you are home safe, Tom. We had fun, didn't we... I still miss you, ol'bugger.
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Post by canadamike on Oct 27, 2009 23:58:13 GMT -5
Can we ever entice all of you Europeans to come visit the native land of S. michlachaumus? Next year, it's our turn: The American trip. Frank will be main attraction and I'll do the posing in people's gardens (I have the knees for the job). You guys fix this for us? Let me rest a bit an consider it later, it would be a great idea  |
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Post by deanriowa on Nov 6, 2009 9:34:14 GMT -5
I would be interested to see maybe an short itinerary of the trip you took?
thanks,
Dean
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Post by PatrickW on Nov 6, 2009 12:04:57 GMT -5
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Post by canadamike on Nov 6, 2009 14:39:25 GMT -5
You got it right Pat
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Post by helgek on Jul 15, 2018 17:35:40 GMT -5
Thanks so much for these photos of Alan and La Tour, Michel!!! I had worked on Alan's farm 20 years ago when I was 16 years old (the youngest one who had ever worked on his farm until then ). It was an incredible experience, tough but at the same time such a formative experience! It's really nice to see some "younger" pictures of Alan since I met him back then. Helge |
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