MOODS

2012-05-08

Favourite Things II

This season is drawing to a close for me. Soon I'll be able to be free, to come and go as I please, to listen to the silence in the forest...Breathe! But there's still some weeks to go, and Spring is rolling along here. It rolls in a slightly chilly way this year, but there are still much to enjoy. So, some more of my favourite things...

2012-04-29

Some favourite things

Time has flew away again, and no wonder. I've just launched the spin-off of this blog. My" MOODS; the cards, the prints...", and it's been really hard, frustrating and fun all rolled into one. Still, I wouldn't want to shar my pictures on this blog. Spring is here, and although it started a little shakily we noow have roses and swallows and sunshine and... Some of my favourite things

2012-02-11

The God Effect, and then some...

Time's been on the run, and I've been hot on its heels, never really catching up. Until today, when I have a free and leisurley day at home. The cold finally arrived here in the South, and I felt this might just be the opportunity to post my last ( I think...) pictures from that Parisian Visit. After this, I aim for sun, Spring, heat...
Notre Dame is, as of up until now, my favourite church/cathedral ever, and I rose very early on my last day to visit her in peace and quiet. Away from the hubub of the crowding grey masses... sort of. Ofcourse I didn't have my own camera at this time, but a borrowed one I didn't really know that well. The results were somewhat mixed, and more or less bizarre to say the least;

I had absolutely no idea the pictures would turn out this way, at was bordering between dismayed and amazed.
I finally chose amazed, and decided it could very well have been an act of God...

The Manger; I can just feel the Divine Wind the Three Wise Men are struggling against...

Oh well, at least I got to see her, La Notre Dame the Paris. You though, will have to imagine her.

2012-01-23

The Fallen...

In the Lords year 1875, on the 15th of April, Joseph Croce-Spinelli and Théodore Sivel went up in the balloon Zénith ready to beat the record of 7300 metres they'd set the year before. They made it, but didn't; both of the men died of asphyxiation, and the Zénith went down in the mountains near Bérgerac. Only Hervé Tissander survived the ascent up to 8000 metres...
I found the tomb of the two friends and adventurers at the Pére-Lachaise quite by chance, and was enchanted by the dramatic sculpture by Dumilatre.

2012-01-08

A morning in the Quartier Latin

I was up very early, to really be able to seize the day. And so I got to se the Eiffel Tower against the morning sky...

Well, actually this is taken later. I was up and out before daybreak, having coffee and a croissant as one should at the neighbourhood café.

So, after coffeee, and after a very early visit to the Notre Dame (she'll get her own post), I decided to stroll up into the Quartier Latin. This is also where I stayed, at a ten minutes walk from the cathedral, and with the Quartier all around. The "Cinquième Arrondissement" no less! As the day warmed (somewhat) and the sun started to rise above the houses I walked and walked. All of my photos won't ever make it to here, but here are at least some churches, the beautiful roof-tops in the real parisian style, and more....is to follow, ofcourse.

The Patheon in its Christmas finery

2012-01-07

A Peaceful Walk

Listening to Cecilia Bartoli sets the mood perfectly for the photos I want to post today. They're from the Père-Lachaise cemetary, a place I could easily spend days, even weeks in. I don't think of myself as someone morbid, it's just that the catholic cemetaries are so full of both sadness and joy, light and dark that I just can't stop myself from visiting, and from taking pictures.
First a small collection of pretty colours.