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A concrete jungle: The area where trees and gardens once planted their roots, concrete stands and blocks their view. This is a follow-up blog post to my previous story about the Arcueil allotments. You remember Gisèle’s garden. What I liked best is this little basket and its broom. Not sure why you would need this really, but it’s quite cute. The Concrete Jungle Yet, the allotments I showed were — just a few months ago — twice as large and […]
When I saw this remarkable chestnut tree in L’Haÿ les Roses last Sunday, I immediately felt like tree-hugging. Above all, the warmish afternoon caused the rain to evaporate and created that vaporous background. The photo was left as is.
Mignonne alors voir si la rose… is a famous poem by 16th Century poet Ronsard. William Hawley has this translation: Mignonne, come let us see if the rose Which this morning opened Her robe of crimson to the sun, Has not already lost, at evening, The folds of her crimson robe, And her complexion, so like your own. Harper’s rimes are quite nifty. Yet, I’m not sure I like it best. See, Mignonne, hath not the Rose, That this morning […]
Dramatic skies over Operation Overlord’s Sword Beach. From another angle. More patriotic colours.
National colours I should say, very patriotic. The yellow bridge before the lighthouse Photogenic rust. Ouistreham, May 2019
Ouistreham (probably from an old Saxon Name meaning “Oyster Ham”), Normandy, May 2019
Arcueil and Bagneux are two suburbs in the South of Paris. A bit of an urban jungle if you ask me. These are allotments in Acrueil. Yet, as if feeding from the concrete, beautiful tulips are growing and reminding us that Spring is here. At long last. There are quite a few allotments and gardens left in that area. Map courtesy of the association in charge of maintaining the allotments in Arcueil. The only way you can survive the traffic […]
