Thursday Doors: Oradour-sur Glane (2)
Posted on September 21, 2017
As noted last week, there are solid reasons why there aren’t very many actual doors left in Oradour-sur-Glane, but the gates have stood the test of time rather more succesfully. Here’s a selection.
Thursday Doors 21 September 2017
Weekly Photo Challenge: Layered
Posted on September 21, 2017
This brightly painted mooring post was spotted in one of the many inlets of Sydney Harbour.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Stones
Posted on September 20, 2017
Frank’s chosen theme for this week is ‘Stones’. These are to be found on the beach in the Sydney suburb of Manly. The cloudy conditions meant that the palette is a little washed out, but at the same time helps to enhance the texture of these rocks.
Tuesdays of Texture: Toadstool
Posted on September 19, 2017
This toadstool was growing recently n the same log as the fungus I showed last week – and I’m indebted to Narami for enlightening me as to what it might have been:
Sooner Watch Paint Dry
Posted on September 15, 2017
This little dog was tucked under its owner’s arm, not remotely interested in the horse-racing at the La Sagna Hippodrome, near Le Dorat.
Thursday Doors: Oradour-sur-Glane (1)
Posted on September 14, 2017
Oradour-sur-Glane is a place not very far from here that I’ve visited many times, and I’ve featured images from it in several other posts on this blog.
You can find out more about it here, but suffice it to say that it’s a permanent – and very powerful – memorial to a war crime perpetrated in June 1944.
Given this background, it’s not surprising to hear that there are very few doors left to show, but there are enough to provide hopefully an interesting and enlightening contribution to Thursday Doors.
This was the butcher’s shop:
And this the boulangerie (bakers). The sign on the left says “Here were found two charred corpses”
The village had been there for a long time, as you can see from this ironwork above a doorway on the main street:
This door is in the church:
This barn lies behind the church. Given its reasonable condition, I suspect it is used as a depot for site maintenance:
Finally. this is the heavy bronze door that leads to a crypt in the cemetery which houses a museum dedicated to the victims:
Thursday Doors 14 September 2017
Tuesdays of Texture: Fungi
Posted on September 13, 2017
I’m not exactly sure what this is, but it’s growing on a log in my garden. (The artful little splashes of blue are from the wisteria growing above it.)
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