Lisa and I are now back from Provence. We purchased and packed up the new harvest of lavender and the products for our market and the website. The lavender is harvested in July but not dry and ready to ship until September. The lavender bouquets are a beautiful blue, and the loose flowers are fragrant and fresh. We will be mixing the greyer (stronger scent with the blue for color). 
Products are purchased from our vendors not at a big "salon" or trade show, but usually from their garage, or "hangar", put it in the rental car, or in this case, in our friend's truck and is then packed up at the farmer's barn.
I have posted many photos of the lavender in full bloom, but this is what it looks like in Oct. after the harvest. Lisa swears that she saw a "sanglier" (wild boar) on this drive just before we stopped to shoot a photo of this field. This is sanglier and wild mushroom country.
The large bags here in back of Lisa are full of lavender flowers. This is up at the "hangar" of our supplier.
Aunt Suzanne (not my real Aunt, but I wish she was), creates our beautiful "lavender bottles". 
I just received an email from the freight forwarder! The goods are on the water as we speak, expected to arrive in New York on 12 Dec., to Kansas City by 22 Dec., and perhaps in Lincoln Nebraska for a Merry Christmas!
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