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…
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…
L’Haÿ les Roses – Rose Garden. May 2019
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…
Alfama – December 2018 Beyond Pombal square. Igreja de São Domingos was damaged during the 1531 earthquake and destroyed in the 1755 earthquake (the one described in Voltaire’s Candide). Rebuilt twice and destroyed once more in 1959 by a fire.…
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