Have you ever had one of those things,
that every time you walk past it you say, "I really must do (such and such)??".
Well, during our time is Sablet last summer there was one of those things .....
every time I walked from Maison des Pelerins to the village via place de l'Eglise,
I passed the side of the Church of St. Nazaire.
The large, shady Plane tree (in the "Place") was surrounded by newly erected balustrades,
to protect the tree from drivers trying to rearrange items in the "Place".
There they stood, seemingly just crying out for some flowers to decorate them.

Eventually, we did it ...... we installed four new "window boxes" ("bacs"), each filled with bright summer flowers - some new flowers at the base of the Plane tree, and a new pot of flowers by the seat.
Our neighbor le cure was so pleased, as were many of the parishioners.
It was lovely having flowers decorate the "Place".

In "Spring Flowers" I recently wrote about the flowers and petit potager that our wonderful neighbor and garden caretaker was going to install at Maison des Pelerins.
Yesterday, Easter Saturday, we received a picture of the new potager and were so excited
to see the new garden boxes planted with tomatoes and aubergines (egg plants).
We emailed back a big "Merci" and asked, "by the way, how are the boxes outside the church doing?" We said that we want to make sure they are replanted this year, and what a shame we didn't think about it earlier so that it would be done for Easter Sunday.

Easter Sunday morning - California time: very early this morning, a new picture arrived!
It was the side of the church with new flowers in the boxes, looking beautiful for Easter Sunday!
Monsieur had started very, very early.
He paid a visit to Madame Bonnet, the Fleuriste for some pretty petunias and other flowering plants.
He renewed the tired soil and had the new floral decorations in place for Easter Sunday visitors.

What a great Easter surprise! We were so happy to see it, and really touched by the fact that Monsieur went out of his way to make it happen, especially on a holiday.
It's the kind of thing that makes our little village of Sablet such a special place.
I can't wait to get back!