Tuesday Photo Challenge: Old

This week, Frank at Dutch Goes The Photo! has returned to the theme of ‘Old’.

As this year is, of course, the centenary of the end of World War I, this image seems appropriate. It is a French Army helmet of the period, now housed in the Museum at the Chateau des Ducs in Nantes.

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Old

Hot Dinners

In the schoolroom of the living museum of rural life at nearby Montrol-Sénard you can still see these cooking pots, in which the pupils would bring their lunches from home, sitting them on top of the stove to keep warm.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge 18 January 2018

Thursday Doors: Bordeaux (2)

More doors from the Quai Louis XVIII in Bordeaux – and this week not a blue one to be seen.

Although green is quite popular too:

This restaurant was a little bit different, but still had the typical arch over the door, nicely echoed in the window:

Rather tattier, but conforming to the general pattern:

But this one is a bit of a mould-breaker:

As is this discreet example:

But here is this week’s favourite:

Thursday Doors 18 January 2018

Weekly Photo Challenge: Silence

This weathered sign can be found in the nearby open-air memorial of Oradour-sur Glane, a village where over 600 inhabitants – mostly women and children – were massacred by German troops in June 1944.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Silence

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Delicious

The freshly-caught sea bass on display at the Rialto fish market in Venice looked absolutely delicious.

Tuesday Photo Challenge: 16 January 2018

Roman right-angle

At the Roman site of Cassinomagus, archaeologists have excavated the steps that surrounded and led down to the fountain or spring that would have provided the settlement with most of its fresh water.  This is a detail of one corner.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Corner

Weekly Photo Challenge: Weathered

The passage of millenia has weathered the sandstone of the ancient city of Petra into some fascinating shapes and colours, including this example.

Is it just me, or is that the head of a dinosaur about to graze on that bush?

Weekly Photo Challenge: Weathered

Thursday Doors: Bordeaux (1)

Although I promised even more doors from Confolens after the Christmas & New Year break, just for a change over the next couple of weeks I’m going to put up some doors I saw in the city of Bordeaux just before the holiday season.

We went on a coach trip to the Christmas Market there and, having a couple of hours before we set off on the return journey, we took a promenade along the Quai Louis XVIII, which runs along the Gironde river and is lined with impressive buildings.

Even if some of the doors don’t quite match the grandeur of their surroundings, that doesn’t make them uninteresting (quite the opposite, I’d say). There is, however, a preponderance of blue, certainly in this selection.

[All these images were captured with my old iPhone, so may not be up to usual standards]

 

Smart…

…not so much:

Even the gates are blue:

And so  it goes on…

Finally, some flashes of red for contrast:

Thursday Doors 11 January 2018

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Circle

The Bénédictins railway station in the city of Limoges has been voted the most beautiful train station in Europe. It’s not bad, that’s for sure. This is the skylight in the dome that covers the main hall. I think it meets with Frank’s theme this week of ‘Circle’.

Tuesday Photo Challenge: Circle

Farming In Miniature

Some may recall that last October I put up some of my photographs at a local ‘Expo’ of hobbies and ‘passions’. One of the displays was a table-top homage to agriculture – still the main form of activity around here- including these models of agricultural machinery. Whether they are toys for children or adults I leave it to you to decide.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Toys