My photo blog

Monday, May 31 2010

• SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH "U" - Not easy, this one, not many words beginning with "u", but I found 2: uniforms and utensils. Here is my artistic photo of a kitchen utensil: a whisk. It's an old one, but it was very good for whisking egg whites to make "iles flottantes". Mmm, delicious. It belonged to an old grandma and she would (…)

Sunday, May 30 2010

• PINK WALL - CHALLENGE WIN - I won a challenge on the REDBUBBLE SITE again!! I'm so proud of myself! (Je suis fière de moi). It was in the Colour me a Rainbow group-pink. REMEMBER THIS PHOTO? I included it nearly at the beginning of my blog.Just look at this shocking pink colour and imagine a whole wall(un mur entier) like (…)

Friday, May 28 2010

• GARDENS in PARIS - There are many gardens and parks in Paris and when the weather is fine the gardens are full: people walking, running, sitting, reading, talking, sunbathing, playing.... This is the garden at the Sénat; there are tables here, not just chairs, because there is a chess board (un jeu d'échecs) drawn on (…)

Thursday, May 27 2010

• HOT WEATHER in PARIS - It was very hot at the weekend when I was in Paris and a lot of Parisian women were in shorts. Here you can see them enjoying the sun on the quays of the Seine. The big event was Nature on the Champs Elysées. This is the poster on the side of the road which shows an overall view.There were trees, (…)

Sunday, May 16 2010

• PARIS - A garden in the country is very nice, but a courtyard in Paris is not bad either: This one's beautiful in its simplicity. I didn't know that in the streets behind these big doors are courtyards like this, or even more beautiful. In the past, before cars, the horses and carriages (les chevaux et (…)

Friday, May 14 2010

• MUSIC - Music in the garden today - what luxury! The birds who usually(habituellement) sing, were very surprised. It was a beautiful, warm, sunny day and the music just added something special. (C'était une belle journée douce et ensoleillée et la musique était un plus.) Stéphanie was rehearsing (elle (…)

Thursday, May 13 2010

• BACK TO COLOURS - Back to colours, I feel better (je me sens mieux). I took this photo in a shop selling paint. I don't like the greens very much, I prefer the reds and yellows. In fact those are the colours I planted in my garden today. They are purslane (pourpiers) and are supposed to not like water! In this photo (…)

Wednesday, May 12 2010

• WHITE - As you've probably noticed I love colours, contrasts and unusual associations. So, today here are just white photos. Ghostly tent roofs (toits); the sky was grey and there was no contrast. I'll not tell you where they are and you can continue dreaming(rêver).:) A little more contrast here and (…)

Tuesday, May 11 2010

• SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH "S" - On the redbubble site( again!) I belong to a group called "Alphabet Soup" and at the moment it's letter "S". Here are my entries ( I'm allowed 2): Strawberries and stripes (des rayures). The strawberries were taken on a street stall (un étalage) in Paris. I bought some, they were delicious,sweet and (…)

Sunday, May 9 2010

• FEATURED! CHOSEN - Two photos chosen in the challenge "yellow" in the group "Colour me a Rainbow" on the redbubble site! The hosts in this group like my photos. This one is called "sunshine bowls" - a very happy colour for breakfast. This is an abstract one - I like abstract photos. It is a maple tree flower on my (…)

Saturday, May 8 2010

• GARDEN - After the rain yesterday I found these very small toadstools(champignons) in the garden today. 2 hours later they had disappeared. (…)

Friday, May 7 2010

• RAIN - It rained today - I don't like rain, but I can take some nice photos when it stops.I went into the wood near my house and there were droplets (gouttelettes) everywhere. The ferns have already grown high, but have not unfurled (déroulé) their leaves yet; they make curious shapes. Les fougères sont (…)

Thursday, May 6 2010

• BARBED WIRE - fil de fer barbelé - What a curious photo today! One to think about. I went into a garden centre to buy a plant and didn't find anything I liked; and then I noticed rolls and rolls of this barbed wire. Curious. I googled and read that the history of the United States was changed because of barbed wire! It enabled the (…)

Wednesday, May 5 2010

• RUST - la rouille - I went rust hunting again today! I found some fabulous photos on a white-painted structure near some silos not far from where I live. Here is an example: The title is "The Turkey" (la dinde)! Can you see it? I like these abstract macros, they amuse me, they are different they teach me to look at the (…)

Tuesday, May 4 2010

• COLOURS - Where did I go today to see a wall like this? No, not Paris, in Charente Maritime. It's one of the front walls of my local Leclerc supermarket! I went to print some photos in the automatic machine. And also to get my tickets for an exhibition in Paris, CRIMES ET CHATIMENTS at the Orsay museum, that (…)

Monday, May 3 2010

• A NEW BOOK - These are photos of pages from my husband's new book, it arrived this morning and he is very proud and excited. The illustrator is Lisa Launay, whose job is designing cloth for children's clothes. She creates the illustrations on her computer. My husband writes the stories: this one is about a (…)

Sunday, May 2 2010

• BACK TO PARIS - When I'm walking in the streets in Paris I look at the details - it's difficult because everything is so big and high. I notice particularly the reflections in all the glass: windows, cars.. Here is one of my favourites in a very clean and shiny black car bonnet: From cars to transport, what do you (…)