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Le Lavoir
Le Lavoir When in last week’s post I declared my love for the old villages in the south of France, with “Vers-Pont-du-Gard” as example, I didn’t mention the old communal washing-places. Before the invention of the washing-machine you could find them all over, not just in France. In many towns and villages they have been…
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Vers-Pont-du-Gard
Vers-Pont-du-Gard The ‘Pont du Gard’ is probably the best preserved aqueduct of the Roman Empire and for sure a major tourist attraction in the south of France. In the photo you see it on a photo on a wall in the nearby village ‘Vers-Pont-du-Gard’. An appropriate name for a village at a stone’s throw from…
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Les accordéonistes
Les accordéonistes Are they trying to scare us away,this motley lot of advancing orange,casting their long-drawn-out shadows forward,while drawing protracted cries from their accordions? No! It’s the ‘Festival l’Accordéon Plein Pot’! Photo of the week: ‘Festival l’Accordéon Plein Pot’, Saint Quentin la Poterie, France 2017
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This calls for a toast
This calls for a toast The way the red and white checks of the tablecloth penetrate the bottles of rosé.Nature morte on a table in the sun.Wonder of light and liveliness. Photo of the week : Rosé bottles, Saint Quentin la Poterie, France 2017
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Selective memory
Selective memory Last week we had a theatre stage covered with carnations, this week we have tree branches hanging from the ceiling of a restaurant. While I still cherish the memory of the ballet performance between the thousands of carnations, the dinner under the tree branches has passed into oblivion. Photo of the week: Restaurant…
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“Nelken” stage
“Nelken” stage Carnations, thousands of them, growing on the stage of “Nelken”, the ballet by Pina Bausch. Since its premiere in 1982 it has been performed by Tanztheater Wuppertal numerous times all over the world. I saw it twice in Amsterdam, in 1995 and then again in 2016. Meanwhile Pina Bausch had died but her…
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A rare sight
A rare sight I saw him one day on the wall of our house.A butterfly? So big and strange?A search operation taught me: not a butterfly but a moth.A moth? So big and strange? And so beautiful?Yes, it is the Actias selene, the Indian Luna moth.A rare sight. Never saw one again. Photo of the…
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Someone has been here
Someone has been here A riverbed, a row of stones. Each stonea whim of nature. The row of stones– chosen, laid out –a whim of man. Photo of the week: Riverbed, Solalex, Switzerland 2020
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A tribute to HM
A tribute to HM I was completely absorbed in looking at ‘The Sheaf’, one of Matisse’s great collages, created in the final years of his life, when he was bedridden and could no longer paint. Then a visitor came into my field of vision. I regarded her appearance as a happy coincidence, a fleeting tribute…
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Wet dream
Wet dream The young man dreams of a good catch. Only when looking more closely at the painting we see what kind of fish he actually hopes to hook up with. Sweet dreams of youth. Photo of the week: “Rêves de jeunesse” (1894) by the Swiss painter Luigi Rossi, Musée d’Art et Histoire, Genève, Switzerland…
καιρός remembered
… the right moment, position chosen, shoot …
καιρός remembered 