It was slippery there,fell twice before I walked down that steep hill.

Roma la santa, Bologna la dotta, Genova la superba, Firenze la bella, Venezia la ricca.

Proverbio francese

AILLEURS

La « réalité » dans les arts est composée de formes, de couleurs et d’émotions, illuminée par un rayon de poésie. (Patrice - inspiré de Georges Braque, Stuart Davis et Suzanne Langer)

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ELSEWHERE

" Reality " in art is composed of shapes, colors and, emotions…illuminated by a ray of poetry. (Patrice - inspired by Georges Braque, Stuart Davis and, Suzanne Langer)

Venezia Italia

Guyte P. McCord Park, Tallahassee, FL.

Ruinas del paraje El Salto, que quedó bajo el agua al construirse la obra hidroeléctrica del dique Piedras Moras, en 1979, sobre el cauce del río Ctalamochita.

Almafuerte. Cordoba

Venezia

The Woodland Kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis) is a small bird with stunningly, very bright blue feathers on its back, wing panels and tail, with black shoulders and a white belly.

This beautiful bird is an intra-African migrant and is most commonly found in Acacia thornveld.

Contrary to their names, the Woodland kingfisher don’t actually fish for their food, it prefers to hunt its prey from low tree branches by swooping down to catch insects on the ground.

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Have a great weekend.

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Taken at North: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/North/21/178/45

Music for the journey: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9lrVZdaluk

Textura Summer lake, de Cris Buscaglia Lenz.

:copyright: 2018 François de Nodrest / Pantchoa - All rights reserved.

De witwangboomeend komt voor in Sub-Saharisch Afrika, op Madagaskar en in de tropische gebieden van Zuid-Amerika ten oosten van de Andes.

De Witwangfluiteend wordt als één van de mooiste fluiteenden beschouwd.

Ze zijn tam, nieuwsgierig en alert.

Hij leeft altijd in groepen en is voornamelijk in de schemering en 's nachts actief.

Wereldtuinen Mondo Verde

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Eurasian Jay taken in Kensington Gardens.

BW redux

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My husband and me in front of the Mdina Glass Christmas Tree in Valletta, Malta.

The Christmas tree, for those of you interested in numbers, is a 7 metre tall Christmas tree made of over 2,000 glass baubles, ranging in size from 5 to 33 cm in diameter. Putting the tree together takes 8 people 2 days!

Castle Howard House

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Mi Roger. Lo que encuentra en el camino cuando salimos a pasear lo trae a casa...y los juguetes que dejan

mis nietos tirados tambien son para el

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Since I've posted some photos showing you how this place really looks, I thought I might go all out and edit this one - because it is a view just begging for it!

This is the ruins of the Château Mennechet - began around 1880 by the wealthy Alphonse Mennechet de Barival, a collector of fine arts, who wanted a place to show his belongings. When he died in 1903 (aged 90) the place wasn't finished and his collection donated to the town Saint-Quentin. It would seem that the château was never properly finished, and it got damaged both in the first and the second world war. After the bombardments of the last war, the château was completely abandoned and it was plans for tearing the place down. But in 2008 the ruins were cleared by new owners and even though you can't visit the place (it's a private property) you can get a good view of it from the street below.