GRÂCE AU CIEL

Thank heavens...much needed rain! We love the glassy and magnifying effect of raindrops that a stormy night left on this morning rose blossom. Sent from guest photographer Sylvia's smart phone in the south of France. 

Vocabulary
grâce au ciel:  thanks to God; thank heavens
un rosier:  a rose bush
une rose:  a rose
une goutte d'eau:  a droplet
un orage:  a storm


Expressions
Voici la pluie qui arrive.
Here comes the rain.


Après la pluie le beau temps.
After the rain comes the sun.


©2012 P.B. Lecron

A WORD TO THE WISE

Listening to the sung word is a wonderfully osmotic way to learn, especially a Romance language. Even if un peu ringard--in the first sense of the word, out of date and not minable--these two French songs with lingering lyrics are more than listenable:  Françoise Hardy singing Mon Amie la Rose and Yves Montand interpreting Les Roses de Picardie.

Vocabulary
une rose:  a rose
un rosier:  a rose bush
rose:  pink
rose saumoné, -e:  salmon pink
un peu:  a little bit
vernaculaire:  vernacular
minable:  mediocre, pathetic
ringard, -e:  (familiar) out of date, square
Expression
voir la vie en rose:  to see life in rose-tinted glasses

Text & photo ©2011 P.B. Lecron