The City Daily Photo theme for December is worker. This is Jean Michel drilling a hole through a 70 cm wall which is what you sometimes need to do when you live in a house that is over 400 years old! For other takes on the theme click here. Le thème de City Daily Photo …
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CDP Theme Day – Swanning Down the Loire
I thought this swan on the Loire was perfect for this month’s theme of “movement” and also to announce a change of name from Blois Daily Photo to Loire Daily Photo to correspond better to my life in this part of France! For other entries in City Daily Photo, click here. Je trouve que ce cygne …
CDP Theme Day – French Takeaway
This one was a challenge for me because takeaways apart from pizza and hamburgers are not part of French culture. However, we have traiteurs, which are a bit like delicatessens, where you can buy prepared meals. On today’s menu: blood sausage & Caribbean grill on the left-hand board and stag sausage and terrine on the right-hand …
City Daily Photo Theme Day: Celebrating Summer with Sunflowers
What better way to celebrate summer than with sunflowers? For other entries in the City Daily Photo Theme Day, click here. Quelle meilleure façon de fêter l’été qu’avec des tournesols? Pour voir les autres photos de la journée thème de City Daily Photo, cliquez ici.
Zest of Jazz – Z'est jazz
An impromptu jazz band in our local square, Louis XII – the sort of band that makes you wish you could play with them. For other contributions to the City Daily Photo theme day – zest! – click here. Un orchestre de jazz impromptu sur notre place locale, Louis XII: le type d’orchestre qui vous …
Royal Squares – Carrés royaux
These sculpted stone squares, in the lapidary section of Blois Castle, are both symbolic of François Ier, King of France from 1515 to 1547. The first shows his initial, F, surrounded by a monk’s cord with three knots forming an 8, which was the emblem of his mother, Louise de Savvoie. The second is the …
Photo of the Year to welcome 2014 – Photo de l'année pour accueillir 2014
This is my favourite view of Blois: the Loire from Vienne, with the traditional flat-bottom boats in the foreground, Gabriel Bridge, the Royal Castle of Blois and Saint Nicolas Church in background. Today is theme day in the City Daily Photo community, where City Daily Photo blogs all over the world can post a January …
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November Theme Day for CDP – "heights"
We bought a very large ladder so that Jean Michel can climb up to the roof of our house, particularly to check the gutters. No way would I go up there! I don’t have a head for heights. Not like the hornet nest destroyer who climbed up on the roof recently! Today is theme day …