Happy New Year 2020 – Bonne année 2020

Quintessentially French! Happy New Year – happiness, health and much-needed optimism for 2020 to all our readers and fellow City Daily Photo bloggers across the globe! Une excellente année 2020 : bonheur, santé et optimisme  – il en faut bien – à tous nos lecteurs et membres de City Daily Photo à travers le monde …

City Daily Photo Theme Day: Rainbow – Arc en ciel

One of the landmarks in Blois is the Maison de la Magie or House of Magic, a museum in honour of Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, the famous French illusionist born in Blois in 1805. A rainbow from one end of the building certainly does seem magical! For other takes on this month’s City Daily Photo theme can be …

CDP theme Brown

What could be more seasonal in France than wild mushrooms – a perfect example of many different browns. These are all edible. For other takes on this month’s city daily photo theme day, click here. Quoi de plus saisonnier en France que les champignons sauvages : le parfait exemple de la couleur marron dans tous …

CDP Theme Day – Orange

Orange is not my favourite colour but I found someone else’s piracantha hedge to illustrate this month’s theme for City Daily Photo bloggers across the globe. You can see their take by clicking here L’orange n’est pas ma couleur préférée mais j’ai trouvé une haie de pyracantha chez quelqu’un d’autre pour illustrer le thème mensuel …

CDP Theme Day – Blue : Bleu

This month’s City Daily Photo theme is blue, so here we have blue sky and blue water – the Loire – during the last day of an unusual heatwave with temperatures well into the thirties every day. Today we are back to normal! The skyline is Blois with the castle and church of Saint Nicolas on …

City Daily Photo Theme Day – Pink

This photo of my pink roses was supposed to be for the City Daily Photo Theme Day this month but I missed it as a result of technical stupidity on my part. Cette photo de mes roses roses était destinée au thème mensuel de City Daily Photo mais j’ai raté le coche à cause de …

City Daily Photo Theme Day – Yellow

The City Daily Photo theme this month is yellow – not hard in spring! Nine different yellow spring flowers. For other takes on the theme click here. Le thème ce mois-ci de City Daily Photo est la couleur jaune – pas difficile au printemps! Voici neuf fleurs de printemps jaunes. Pour d’autres photos sur le …

City Daily Photo Theme Day – Friends

I haven’t posted on City Daily Photo Theme Day for a very long time. Something always seems to get in the way. This month’s theme is “friends”. Quite a lot of competition takes place on the feeder outside my kitchen window but this marsh tit and its cousin the blue tit seemed to be enjoying …