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Oryx
Posted on May 29, 2020
A safe home in the Sir Bani Yas game reserve, Abu Dhabi.
Posted in response to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: All About Nature
Barely off the ground
Posted on May 23, 2020
‘What is it?’ you may well ask when confronted by this stone artefact in the nearby village of Bonnefont.
It is – and there aren’t many of them about – part of a granite funerary ‘coffre’. The hole in the middle was designed to hold an urn of ashes and it would originally have stood on a pedestal. That has long gone, which is why the whole thing looks so short. It dates from the 4th century.
A long head on a long neck
Posted on May 15, 2020
Cee’s theme for her Black & White Challenge this week is something long.
Well, a giraffe came to mind – such as this one in the Game Reserve on Sir Bani Yas Island in Abu Dhabi.
The Tip Of The Iceberg…
Posted on May 8, 2020
When we bought our French house (aka ‘Brokedown Palace’), this is the state that the barn was in. Those bales of rotting hay were all that were holding up not only the roof (such as it was), but pretty much the entire edifice. Since part of the bâtiment belongs to our neighbour, getting it fixed was something of a priority. It cost about as much as we originally paid for the house and land in the first place.
And that was just the tip of the iceberg…
En garde
Posted on May 1, 2020
This fiercely proud lion stands guard in the Musée d’Orsay, on the left bank of the Seine in Paris. Notice the even fiercer lion standing guard behind him.
Spiral staircase
Posted on April 24, 2020
I’m always fascinated by the elegant geometry of spiral staircases.
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 16 Shadow
Posted on April 19, 2020
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