Tuesday Photo Challenge: Cat
Posted on January 28, 2020
Frank was probably thinking more about domestic pets for his theme this week of ‘Cat’. However, we haven’t had a pet cat since the late eighties, so we will have to settle for another member of the feline family, rather higher up the food chain.
This cheetah was in the game reserve on Sir Bani Yas island in Abu Dhabi. They’re very elusive (as well as rather noble-looking), so we were lucky to be able even to see one in the flesh, let alone to get close enough to capture a halfway decent image.
Monday Window – Tranquility Base
Posted on January 27, 2020
Just over 50 yards from our house in the little hamlet that I refer to as Tranquility Base is this small window in – for want of a better word – a shed. It belongs to a couple who spend the summer here (although not in the shed).
Does anybody else see the resemblance to a cartoonish human face?
#MondayWindow 27 January 2020
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 4 – Warmth
Posted on January 26, 2020
The setting sun gives a warm glow to the sky on what would otherwise be a chilly autumn evening. We were heading home – and that’s where the real warmth is.
I took this photo through the windscreen of our car. I would like to point out that I was not driving: I don’t can’t.
52WeekSmartphoneChallenge
Ferry at Circular Quay
Posted on January 24, 2020
Ferries are a popular form of public transport in the area around Sydney.
Thursday Doors: ‘Route 66’
Posted on January 23, 2020
No, it’s not that Route 66. This one is a biker hotel and bar in the nearby village of Bussière-Poitevine. Turn off the road through the village into a small courtyard and you’ll find this small collection of doors.
Thursday Doors 23 January 2020
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Trees
Posted on January 22, 2020
Frank’s chosen theme this week is ‘Trees’. We live in one of the most wooded areas of France, as it happens, so I’m certainly not short of pictures of trees to choose from. However, this image is from a little further afield : it’s the esplanade of the Chateau d’Amboise, in the Loire Valley. It’s perhaps best known for being the burial place of Leonardo da Vinci.
We chose a rather overcast day (in fact, it rained heavily for much of the time) to visit, but when the sun did peek through, the light was nigh-on perfect.
Summer Son et Lumière
Posted on January 22, 2020
France’s Fête Nationale (don’t call it Bastille Day, whatever you do) is, of course, on the 14th of July – right in the middle of summer. Any decent-sized village will put on at least a firework display to mark the occasion, but here we go a little further, with a son et lumière show as well.
Monday Window: Montrol-Sénard
Posted on January 20, 2020
This exceptionally lustrous stained glass window can be found in the old church (parts dating back to the 11th century) in the village of Montrol-Sénard.
#MondayWindow 20 January 2020
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 3 – Black & White
Posted on January 18, 2020
A full moon far outshines the streetlamp in lighting the road that runs through our little hamlet.
52 Week Smartphone Challenge Week 3: Black & White
Thursday Doors: Tranquility Base again
Posted on January 16, 2020
For the uninitiated, ‘Tranquility Base’ is the nom de plume, as it were, of the little hamlet where we live: eighteen houses (including five holiday homes) and three streetlights – count’em.
Amazingly, there are (were) still some portals that haven’t been posted on here: until now.
Q: When is a door not a door? A: When it used to be:
This is on Paulette’s barn, as is this:
All of which forms a piece with the main house:
Much of the hamlet used to belong to the local sabotier (clog-maker), hence the fact that there are more than one of these signs
At the bottom of the garden behind the house currently inhabited by my old mum is this mysterious, disused shed:
But by far the best of this crop is here, which for years has been hidden behind a sheet of corrugated iron:
Thursday Doors 16 January 2020
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