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	<title>Giverny Impression</title>
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	<description>By Ariane, Guide Interpreter, Giverny France</description>
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		<title>Path at Giverny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quiet path, early in the morning in Claude Monet&#8217;s water garden at Giverny. The big tree on the right is the trunk of a taxodium, a deciduous coniferous that loves river sides. The big leaves at its feet are petasites, also known as butterbur, a plant that grows wild along the streams in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://giverny-impression.com/path-at-giverny/</link>
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		<title>Painting Giverny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is many painters&#8217; dream to be able to stay in Monet&#8217;s garden to paint. If your medium is watercolor, pencils, ink&#8230; no problem. Just sit down on a bench (preferably) and paint. But if you use acrylic, for instance, and need an easel therefore, you must ask for allowance. Please get in touch with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://giverny-impression.com/painting-giverny/</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Best wishes from Giverny for a splendid year 2012 full of light and beauty!]]></description>
		<link>http://giverny-impression.com/happy-new-year-3/</link>
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		<title>Monet&#8217;s Greenhouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you curious to have a look inside of Monet&#8217;s greenhouse, that is not open to the public? I was! With the allowance of the gardener, I took this picture last July. Even in Summer many plants need to be kept inside. Some of them will decorate the house, others will be used to adornate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://giverny-impression.com/monets-greenhouse/</link>
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		<title>Monet&#8217;s House in October</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flashing reds and greens in the soft light of October, this is what Monet&#8217;s garden offers in October in the area in front of the painter&#8217;s house. The &#8220;Monet green&#8221; spreads on benches, shutters, stairs&#8230; creating a strong contrast with the formal geranium beds and the virginia creeper on the façade.]]></description>
		<link>http://giverny-impression.com/monets-house-in-october/</link>
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		<title>Monet&#8217;s Color Garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In front of his second studio, a pink house he built in 1899 on the corner of his estate, Monet designed a colorful area of parallel flower beds. In October, the tall flowers of late season mix their pinks, blues, yellows, oranges and reds and their different textures ans shapes, creating a living painting that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://giverny-impression.com/monets-color-garden/</link>
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		<title>Autumn at Giverny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is how Monet&#8217;s pond looks on November 1st, minutes before closing for the winter. Soft or spectacular, according to sunshine.]]></description>
		<link>http://giverny-impression.com/autumn-at-giverny-2/</link>
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		<title>Claude Monet&#8217;s Third Studio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monet was 76 when he decided he needed a new studio. This one is actually the third one he built on the premises. After having turned a former barn with western light into his first studio, errected the second one with a big window on the northern facade, Monet decided he wanted the light to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://giverny-impression.com/claude-monets-third-studio/</link>
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		<title>Misty Morning on Monet&#8217;s Pond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The misty days of October are back! On Monet&#8217;s pond at Giverny, they create a soft atmosphere enhancing the different textures of the foliages. Among all these greens, the sumac of Virginia flames. Asters fill in the flower beds in big bouquets. The boat awaits the gardener. He will soon arrive to maintain the pond.]]></description>
		<link>http://giverny-impression.com/misty-morning-on-monets-pond/</link>
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		<title>Autumn Nymphea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Autumn leaves fall on Claude Monet&#8217;s pond  at Giverny, creating new beauties, new color harmonies.]]></description>
		<link>http://giverny-impression.com/autumn-nympheas/</link>
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		<title>Through the Window</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A look through the window of Monet&#8217;s studio, on the ground floor of his house at Giverny. The garden appears like an additional painting among the canvases hanging on the wall.]]></description>
		<link>http://giverny-impression.com/through-the-window/</link>
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		<title>Nasturtiums and Giant Flowers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The beauty of September in Monet&#8217;s garden at Giverny lies in the bright colors displayed by giant flowers. Pink or red huge dahlias, tall yellow helianthus, enormous purple asters, supersized yellow or brown sunflowers have now reached their final height. In the main alley, nasturtiums flow like a river on the sloping ground, pretending to fill the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://giverny-impression.com/nasturtiums-and-giant-flowers/</link>
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		<title>Summertime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer is a gorgeous time in the gardens, especially at Giverny. While water lilies are at their best, the flower garden offers an explosion of colors. Dahlias in every shapes and shades show their heads among the light butterfly like gauras, phlox and lavenders spread their scents, gladiolis bent graciously over the alleys, surrounded by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://giverny-impression.com/summertime/</link>
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		<title>A Carpet of Flowers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the most impressive flower beds at Giverny: a vibrant combination of pink and red pelargoniums displayed on oval patterns, just in front of Claude Monet&#8217;s house. They look very much like carpets of flowers at the foot of the facade. Pelargoniums, known until recently as geraniums, are the most popular Summer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://giverny-impression.com/a-carpet-of-flowers/</link>
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		<title>Sunset on the Seine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you like sunsets? These amazing shows graciously offered by Nature tempt many photographers. You may seize them by chance, just because you are outdoors when they happen, or hurry for them on special spots like a lover running to a date. As beautiful as it might be, it is not so easy to obtain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://giverny-impression.com/sunset-on-the-seine/</link>
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