The Loire Valley and especially Blois
After a recent snow storm I went walking in the forest with my neighbours. Never too old to play! For other takes on City Daily Photos Theme Day of Play, click here. Après une grosse chute de neige récemment je suis allée me promener en forêt avec mes voisins. On n’est jamais trop vieux pour …
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My spontaneous reaction to this month’s City Daily Photo theme of tired was “yes, tired of endless rainy days”. This was taken on one of the “better” days. And just to make me feel a little less depressed, I used an Instagram filter for the second photo. Do you think it’s better? For other takes …
As usual, the January theme for the City Daily Photo community is the photo of the year. Here are our choices, both river views – hot air balloons over traditional Loire River flat-bottom boats in front of château de Chaumont and a view of the little village of Cour-sur-Loire taken from the bike path to château Chambord. …
I come from tropical North Queensland in Australia and the only thing that is really missing in my life in the Loire Valley is the sun. I find the grey overcast days of winter very trying so whenever we get even the smallest ray of sunshine like that in the photo above, I consider it a …
A somewhat difficult theme. This is not exactly rock ‘n roll, but about the closest I could find. The photo is taken on the banks the Loire River in Orléans. For other takes on this month’s City Daily Photo theme, click here. Un thème un peu difficile. Ce n’est pas exactement du rock, mais c’est …
Amboise Castle is so photogenic that it isn’t hard to photograph the photographer. The photographer in this shot, though, seems to be aiming at something enitrely different! For other takes on this month’s City Daily Photo theme, click here. Le château d’Amboise est tellement photogénique que ce n’est pas bien difficile de photographier le photographe. …
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Today is City Daily Photo theme day when daily photo bloggers across the globe participate in a common theme. This month the subject is “Young at Heart”. I couldn’t resist sharing the anecdote below with you. This photo was obviously not taken by us. Credits to Philippe from BPF project. For other takes son the theme, …
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We have been so busy getting ready to go on our one-month cycling holiday to Romania that I nearly forgot City Daily Photo theme day. We said goodby to our garden today. I’ll post a photo of the same corner of our house on July 1st. In the meantime, I hope you’ll follow us across …
As a French blog, I feel rather challenged by a subject about food. In the end I decided to illustrate a recent tradition in French cuisine – the café gourmand, which is a coffee served at the end of the meal with a selection of mini-desserts according to the chef’s whim. From left to right, we …
Wet in more ways than one. Since I prefer a blue sky and bright sun any day in preference to rain, I didn’t have a lot of choice for this month’s City Daily Photo theme day “Wet” although I did post a photo of a rainy market day earlier in the month. This is the local wine …