A Foggy Walk
Enjoying a lovely walk on a foggy winter morning.
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The scene is almost set for this year’s Christmas Market in Saintes, Charente-Maritime.
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Preparations for the Christmas Market in Saintes are well under way.
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Renewing the landscaping design for the Christmas season in the city of Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France.
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Having arrived at the conclusion that posting a lengthy opinion on terrorism just adds yet another superfluous outburst to all the other emotional reactions crowding the internet after the latest string of massacres across the globe, I removed the text of this post. The two hashmarks in my image above express everything I want to say.
Read more "#ContreTerrorismeMondial #StopTheCarnage"Sculling and Rowing with a little buildering thrown in
Saturday dawned pretty in pink, accentuated by a solitary cormorant passing overhead. As the rising sun backlit the trees and rooftops across the river Charente with ever increasing brightness, mist gathered gently to envelop the landscape in milky fuzziness. Inside, morning light filtered through sheer curtains creating mottled patterns across walls and objects. A few […]
Read more "Sculling and Rowing with a little buildering thrown in"Moon over the Arch
A beautiful afternoon, overflowing with autumnal sunshine and culminating in a mild evening with a 97% full moon, gave way to a cloudy sky on Monday. Monday’s 99% full moon should have progressed to a smashingly stunning proper Full Moon on Tuesday night, but the weather gods decided to give us rain instead. Or, as my British […]
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This post will be difficult to write because it is rather awkward for a musically challenged person to speak halfway intelligently on music. Our subject matter is John Cage, in particular, some exhibits relating to Cage, which I discovered during my recent visit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. The most intriguing part […]
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Da sah ich also heute morgen, oops, so I saw a post in FaceBook this morning that inspired me to dig deeply into a period of German culture I’ve despised since my high school days. Romanticism. And before you get your knickers in a twist, I do realize the importance of this epoch for all […]
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One day in Chicago recently, my mom-in-law and I were walking back from a window shopping excursion to our home-exchange apartment in the Streeterville neighborhood of downtown Chicago when we passed the MCA. What is it? she asked me. The Museum of Contemporary Art, I answered. I want to see that, she said. So we went. The […]
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NOT IN A STRAIGHT LINE by Photolera Claudinha 