Water Water Everywhere…

Here’s for Friday’s challenge entitled “liquid“, water is everywhere. And quite a few drops to drink, to turn Coleridge into a liar.

On a very hot Spring day, when it was 29° Celsius in Vincennes, in April 2018. a tonic on ice was welcome on our bike ride in the forest. This time I didn’t throw away the cubes.

The wife is more into her “Suze“. I’m not crazy about Gentian, much of an acquired taste I suppose. A very old fashioned Swiss drink.

Menthe à l’eau is more like it as far as I’m concerned. Mint syrup and fresh aqueous liquid (no ice). Hmm. Water water everywhere and mind you, no Albatross was killed.

And here’s Corleridg’s poem, The Albatros

[…]

All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.

Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.

Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.

About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch’s oils,
Burnt green, and blue and white.

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I'm a photographer and watercolourist. I have practiced photography since childhood and digital photography since 1995. I turned it into my main occupation in 2021. I own a photo studio in Paris, France.
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Je suis photographe et aquarelliste. Je pratique la photographie depuis l'enfance et la photographie numérique depuis 1995. J'en ai fait mon activité principale en 2021. Je possède un studio photo dans le 15e arrondissement de Paris

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