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Uzerche - Corrèze (2)

Uzerche – Corrèze (2)

Uzerche Corrèze – August 2020

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Parc Montsouris Montsouris - A park in the 14th district of Paris With the lockdown (one more time!), we are once again forced to stay home.

Adios Bahamas

Adios Bahamas – Street Art Paris 2020

The mural was painted as a tribute to Nepal, a budding 29-year-old Paris rapper who died at the end of 2019. “He was about to release his first album, which will be released posthumously at the beginning of January 2020”

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Chana Orloff's open air exhibition

Chana Orloff’s open air exhibition

Just before lockdown no.2 (and 3 and 4 etc.), we were lucky enough to visit Chana Orloff’s exhibition.

It took place right outside her workshop, Villa Seurat, in the fourteenth district of Paris.

I was able to get inside and take pictures of the workshop, now turned into a museum.

Orloff was a Franco-Israeli artist, a native of Russia, who arrived in Paris in the 1920s and stayed there until…

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Very very yellow bike

A very very very very yellow bike. With that, you won’t ever need a bike light – Mirepoix Aug 2020

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Tribunal of something I can’t understand This building was some sort of tribunal for petty crimes. As the French judiciary system is so utterly complex and opaque, I won't really be able to explain.

The sky was wearing a face mask

Ile Saint Louis – Autumn 2020 – The Sky was wearing a face mask

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The Church of Val de Grâce

The Abbey of Val de Grâce was founded in 1625 by Anne of Austria, then Queen of France.

Last quoth the raven…

From a side window.

My favourite. A drawing on a wall right outside the church.

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Sad and lonely girl

Rueil Malmaison – October 2020

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Silhouette

Rueil Malmaison – October 2020

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Cobwebs

I’m quite sure you must be wondering what this is.

Hardworking Pyrenees spiders did this. A light drizzle too.

And that.

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As seen from above

As seen from above. A Garbarek album and a visual story from the Pyrenees

St Girons from above

Towards the West and the higher summits.

Steep, steep footpaths

Our little village seen from above, 3000 ft higher at a distance.

High-flying vulture but not one from Wall-Street

Seen from above

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Candlelight dinner party in Léran

It’s a beautiful nineteenth-century house in Léran, in the Ariège, a dozen kilometres south of Mirepoix. The house is jam-packed with antiques and works of art from various periods. What I prefer though is the garden. In the summer, when we get there in August, we often have drinks and dinner parties outside.