Marché de Noel or Christmas Market / Christmas Fair at Place du Capitole, Toulouse down town.
Open daily from 10am to to 8pm and for the week end its open untul 10 pm. It was started since 5th December and will be ended at Deceber 28th.

La Toussaint or All Saints in France , When the cemetery full with flowers, especially Chrisantemum, when family get together and have nice lunch, stay on the table for four to six hours !

In the Philippines, this day, called "Undas", "Todos los Santos" (literally "All Saints"), and sometimes "Araw ng mga Namayapa" (approximately "Day of the deceased") is observed as All Souls' Day. This day and the one before and one after it is spent visiting the graves of deceased relatives, where prayers and flowers are offered, candles are lit and the graves themselves are cleaned, repaired and repainted.

In Poland, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Finland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Croatia, Austria, Romania, Hungary and catholic parts of Germany, the tradition is to light candles and visit the graves of deceased relatives.

In English-speaking countries, the festival is traditionally celebrated with the hymn "For All the Saints" by William Walsham How. The most familiar tune for this hymn is Sine Nomine by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Today in France we celebrate Fête des Mères / Mother's day. I'd like to say Bonne Fête for all mothers of Daily Photo Blog and who ever read this blog.

As a gift I give you 2 fresh roses directly from my garden : The first one is Rose cultivar Julio Iglesias and the second one is Rose cultivar Pierre de Ronsard. I assume many of you knew who is Julio but not Pierre de Ronsard. Pierre de Ronsard (11 September 1524 – December 1585) was a French poet and "prince of poets" (as his own generation in France called him). You could find his complete biography here

Some of the things you could buy as a souvenir from Toulouse.

This is the main entrance of l'Ecole Elémentaire René Cassin where my boy went through every morning. Start this afternoon this door had been closed. It will be open again on September 3rd for the teachers to get prepared and on September 4th it will welcome again all the students. School summer holiday for 2 months has arrived ! Tomorrow my kids will join club holiday but only for 2 days. They will play and have many activities in small group. The club start from 09.00 am and finish at 17.45

Our family holiday this year will be kinda special, since we will have caravan adventure and will visit many places in France from South West to East.