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Roses In Decline
Posted on March 31, 2021
Sic transit gloria mundi.
Madame’s very lovely Mothers’ Day bouquet, two weeks on.
(An experiment with the HDR function of my new phone camera app).
Urban Erosion: St-Junien
Posted on January 13, 2021
An all-too common sight in the old centres of so many towns in rural France that don’t benefit from any significant levels of tourism.
Monday Window: Le Dorat (again)
Posted on October 26, 2020
Another quietly decaying window in the main shopping street (yes, really) of Le Dorat
All made by man
Posted on May 27, 2020
The fence was made by men. The rusting cars were made by men.
And so was the destruction: Oradour-sur-Glane.
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…
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Decay
Posted on January 30, 2018
For Frank’s theme for this week of ‘decay’, here is an image of part of the heavily-weathered inscription on a gravestone to be found in the old burial ground opposite St Mary’s church in Beverley, Yorkshire.
Time and the elements have worn down the lettering into something almost abstract, although it is still possible to make out some of the wording.
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