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Cellpic Sunday: Rusty Shutter
Posted on January 27, 2025
A day late due to ‘production difficulties’ (sc. idleness and ineptitude on my part, plus my struggles with the new and ‘improved’ (ha!) WordPress UI.
Although the popular, almost romantic, image of French window shutters is pristine. brightly coloured and freshly painted volets, more prosaically they’re at least as likely to be metal and rusting. This one, on an abandoned house in the village of Rancon, is a particularly….er, ‘fine’ example.
Geometric symmetry
Posted on December 28, 2023
The geometric forms in this half-timbered house in Chabanais chime well with the image that Cee has chosen for her latest Midweek Challenge.
I wonder if the house number is 29 (XXIX).
Monday Window: Le Dorat
Posted on November 9, 2020
Quite a contrast in the state of repair of the windows – not to mention the roofs – of these adjoining buildings in the Place Collègiale in Le Dorat.
As I recall, that boulangerie did a mean pain aux raisins.
Monday Window: Sainte Radegonde
Posted on September 7, 2020
In the small village of Sainte Radegonde, people value their privacy, and protect it with the ubiquitous wooden shutters and lace curtains.
Monday Window: Abbaye de la Reau
Posted on July 13, 2020
High up in a wall in the unrestored part of the Abbaye de la Reau is this unassuming little window with shutters of an unusual – or at least very old – design.
#MondayWindow 13 July 2020
Monday Window Tranquility Base (again)
Posted on February 24, 2020
Q: When is a window not a window?
A: When it used to be one.
This outbuilding of one of the usually unoccupied houses here in Tranquility Base has seen a lot of re-purposing over the years. The shuttered window obviously used to be a door and there are the phantom vestiges of two other windows.
Monday Window – Aubusson
Posted on December 16, 2019
I spotted this charming little window, with its photogenic freshly-painted shutters, in the town of Aubusson.
#MondayWindow 16 December 2019
Weekly Photo Challenge: Windows
Posted on September 27, 2017
This essentially unexciting window in the centre of the town of Aubusson comes to life thanks to its freshly-painted, vibrant red shutters.
S is for Shutters
Posted on May 5, 2017
These shutters cover a window in one of the turrets of the Chateau des Ducs, in the French city of Nantes. Also includes S for stonework and seats.
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