The Lacroix island ... an island with a bridge in the heart of Rouen ...
This bridge may seem "obvious" to you but, it is not for me, at least it was not when we returned to France.
While we were looking for accommodation, my son told me that there were some to rent on "Ile Lacroix". I thought he took me for a madwoman, out of the question to be on an island when I had just left one. Out of question to feel again "prisoner" of an island, dependent on its constraints due to the weather, out of the question to bare that again ....
If my list of challenges was long, my son laughed and said to me: "But mom, there is a bridge!"
My fears then vanished, my search for accommodation was also facilitated ....
Being in the heart of Rouen is a real advantage. Always according to my desires, I go to the Left bank as easily as the Right bank.
Living there is pleasant because, on a human scale, it facilitates friendly neighborhood meetings. I reassure you, it is not perfect. There are also neighbors who are not very friendly but, they are not the majority.
Usually calm, Lacroix Island is buzzing with sporting events.
It once inspired the Impressionists, was a party place, and today is a place to live in the tumult of a big city like Rouen.
Yesterday & Today
Yesteryear
Yesterday
Nowadays
Click on the postcards to view them and get their link.
Sport in the spotlight ...
Docteur Duchêne Alley -Lacroix Island- 76100 Rouen
The indoors swinmming-pool
The ice rink
The rowing club called in french : C.N.A.R Rouen
The club is called : C.C.N Rouen
These six images aren't from me, I just borrowed them to present the sports on Lacroix island. Thank you
Click on the photos (Google images) and press "go to link" to go to the official page.
"My island, my photos"
"To find happiness is to look for a deserted and tiny island in a small uncomfortable boat with a single oar. Unhappiness is losing the oar. Wisdom is to understand that the island does not exist..." -Roman Werlen-
"The parenthesis is the island of discourse." -Victor Hugo-
"The islands are small continents in abbreviated." -Bernardin de Saint-Pierre-
"Each of us carries in him his own islands, refuges from stupidity, ugliness and the deaf constraint of an ordinary unwanted." -Jacques Chancel / As long as there are islands-
"As I move away from it, my past life is shaping up like an island." -Paul Claudel-
"The good seed, even if it falls into the sea, will become an island." -Malaysian proverb-
"Every man is his own desert island." -Brigitte Aubert / The Iron Rose-
"Spectacle of great beauty as an island in great paleness." -Frédéric Clément / Beauty Grains-
"No man is an island, complete in himself; every human being is a part of the continent, part of the whole." -John Donne-
"Between Earth and Seine"
The Robec pouring into the Seine
Villetard- 8, Industry street 76100 Rouen
"Life: passage on earth. Death: passage underground." -Jicka-
"If the heavens weep, the earth will live." -Hawaiian proverb-
At the Nautical Halt
The happiness of the boatmen
The Norman coat of arms -Corneille bridge -
"The earth is the probable lost paradise ." -Federico Garcia Lorca / Sea-
"The earth cannot tolerate two suns." -Alexander III the Great
" 24h Motonautiques de Rouen"
Annual competition, which brings together a lot of people and, gives residents the opportunity to appreciate their double glazing!
"The virtues are lost in interest, as rivers are lost in the sea." -François De La Rochefoucauld-
"Nothing beats the strength of man's love for his land, his forest, his rivers, his mountains, his rocks, his trees, his birds, his stones." -Jean-Marie Adiaffi-
"It is a very noteworthy of attention that the great rivers usually pass at the foot of the big cities." -Henri Monnier-
"On a sunny October day"
At the end of October 2018, what a pleasure to be able to enjoy the last days of this beautiful Indian summer on Lacroix island, a haven of peace in the heart of Rouen.
I like to walk along the Seine to get rid of my anxieties and I marvel at observing life without having the impression of being part of it.
It is my "luxury" as a simple woman.
Yes, I appreciate the simple happiness and my solitude in these moments.
"The barges"
The floating dwellings of Lacroix Island
...napping...
Sedentary life on a houseboat
Together before departure
... Neglected?...
"Nature "
Flaming nature
Between earth and Seine, the light...
"The more the world goes global, the more the earth is terrified." -Claude Frisoni-
So pretty and yet not edible... proof that there is always a downside to beauty...
"Dear tree, how old are you?"
Between the leaves, the life ...
Behind the weeping willow, the sun ...
"It's a sad thing to think that nature speaks and that the human race does not listen" -Victor Hugo-
More blackberries to come... Patience...
"When the last drop of water is polluted,
the last animal hunted
and the last tree cut down,
the white man will understand that money cannot be eaten "
-Sitting Bull-
"My darling ducks"
"Pure"
"A mother's love is the conviction that her chicks are swans; which is the best way to cheer up children who are convinced they are naughty ducklings." -Pam Brown/ Mom or Mother-
"When a man has a duck's beak, duck wings and duck legs: it's a duck. That's also true for little assles. " -Michel Audiard/ The old-fashioned
""A mother never sees the ugly duckling in her nest of chicks" -Doym-
Would Mr. "Baby Gull" be afraid of drowning?...
"October-May month of the ducks" -Albert Brie/ The word of the silencer-
"Corvus Corone"
The European rollers, which I initially mistook for crows, impressed me. Not to say that they scared me. When I met them, they inevitably reminded me of "The birds" by Alfred Hitchkock. Their black and frank gaze terrorized me, without forgetting their cries, unpleasant, when my passage disturbed them.
Yes, I admit, I stepped aside!
They are often provocative and face people without moving, always staring at us until the last moment when the face to face becomes too close for them.
Perhaps a way of telling us that we, the people, have invaded their territory and that they tolerate us?! ...
"The bird does not sing before the day arises, other than the crow" -Danish Proverb (1757)-
"My God you're so black! said the magpie to the crow" -Provençal proverb (1823)-
"Graff"
“Simplicity but it no longer exists, no kidding! People display as tags, to hit on ! Even with a mobile phone, times are changing. ”
-MC Solaar / Times change-
Yummy...
It's time for a new graffiti to be made because it has been undermined by tags not really artistic!...
"Up there ..."
View on St Catherine's Hill and St Paul's Church
A slight effect of Tower of Pisa?! ...
... no, she stands straight like an "I".
"November under the sun"
-2018-
"It is silly to climb a hill on a bicycle when you just have to turn around to go down it."
-Pierre Dac-
* If you click on the photo, you will be able to see the page dedicated to the Quays of the Seine.
The new Graff on the wall of the SPA
The Hip-Hop gull has arrived on the SNPA wall! SPA: Anamal Welfare Society SNPA: Norman Animal Welfare Society
For some time he will be the protector of abandoned animals...
"Graffiti is one of the few means available to you when you have almost nothing.
And even if you can't cure poverty in this world with a picture, at least you can make someone smile while they pee. "
-Bansky-
"Autumnal"
"Lonely"
Pretty autumn colors
Nicely poisoned
- Pierre Véron / The Carnival of the dictionary-
"Autumn is the spring of winter." -Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -
"In the autumn of the seasons, the leaves die. In the fall of life, these are our memories." - Flor Des Dunes / And the leaves fall -
"Sad is autumn for those who can't brighten it up." -Céline Blondeau-
"Women also have their seasons. Summer doesn't always last and after summer... Oh, yes! The splendours of autumn! But how ephemeral!! Who takes the time to watch and love autumn?" -Françoise Dumoulin-Tessier/ The Green Room -
"What is sometimes beautiful about autumn is when the morning rises after a week of rain, wind and fog and all the space, suddenly, seems to be soaking up the sun." -Victor Lévy Beaulieu / The Legacy -
"In the autumn, I collected all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. When April bloomed again and the earth and spring celebrated their nuptials, my garden was littered with splendid and exceptional flowers." -Gibran Khalil Gibran-
What is the prime of life? If not a rose blossomed by autumn." Josiane Coeijmans-
Autumn is the season when muses throw leaves at random from the winds. Trees are accused of neglect because we do not want to believe that all words that have not been said are written on them.Forgotten "I love you," poems never written and all the words of apology, the emlammed speeches! It is said that the muses squeeze them on their hearts before sowing them. We say it of course, but we don't write it down..." -Joel Grenier-
"Every season, nature dazzles with its landscapes and colours, revealing all its beauty and splendour" -Mazouz Hacene/ Reflection-
* Click here to see my photos "Normandy's gardens" ... only if you want to, of course!
The Corneille bridge which leads to "my" island is often adorned with international flags when hockey or figure skating competitions take place at the Anquetil sports center. I like the flags which are the identity of each country, it must be my little patriotic side! They are not trivial, each color, symbol, design on the flags has a precise meaning and defines the country concerned.
I don't want to be a school teacher, far from it, but for example the French flag represents our country by its colors:
It has been the official flag of France since 1794, and the official flag since 1812.
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Blue is the color of the city of Paris, the capital of France.
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White is the color traditionally associated with the French monarchy
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Red is the color of the blood shed to liberate the people.
"The third flag, the tin flag, the flag of the majority of the French, is the weather vane." - Aurélien Scholl -
"Most people prefer to slip their skin under the sheets rather than risk it under the flags." -Raymond Devos -
"The flags of our two countries contain the same colors. Do everything in your power to make the resemblance stop there." -Michael Moore / Get me that -
"When women get involved, when the housewife pushes her man, when she rips off the black flag that flies on the pot to plant it between two cobblestones, it is because the sun will rise over a city in revolt." -Jacques Vingtras, the Insurgent (1886) by Jules Vallès-
"Wine, sir, is France. To bend your elbow is to salute the flag." -The Boy (2016) by Marc Martiniani-
"A flag hidden in your pocket is not a flag, it's a handkerchief." Girardin's emile
The boatmen stick together ...
"There are two kinds of trees: beech and non-beech trees" -Raymond Queneau -
In the autumn of the seasons, the leaves die. In the fall of life, these are our memories." -Flor Des Dunes / And the leaves fall -
"Autumn is sewn with moments of grace, which don't last." -Janine Boissard / The Children's House-
"Observation: the pine tree is a horizontal tree!" -Pierre Doris -
"When you plant an onion under a willow, you don't necessarily get a weeping willow." -François Cavanna-
You can count the number of apples in a tree, but you can never count the number of trees in an apple. " -Roma Proverb /The Dictionary of Gypsy Proverbs and Sayings (1980)-
"Plant me a willow at the cemetery. So that I have at least someone to cry on my grave" -Roland Devaux-
On the left, the clan of gulls and on the right, that of pigeons.
"At work !"
I could let believe that this gentleman was a Santa Claus, ecological moreover! He does not tire his reins, does not pollute with a motorized sled but pedals with energy on the Corneille bridge. Where does he go in his light outfit? At work of course. His hood certainly contains his snack, perhaps his cigarettes and his cellphone if it is not already in his pocket. He is one of the anonymous people to whom I want to pay tribute, to these people who are not lacking in courage, who every day bow to the same routine with energy.
"What we have before us is the prospect of a society of workers without work, that is to say deprived of the only activity they have left."
... instead of walling the building after having dislodged squatters, if the people "up there" turn it into social housing?
It was just my little morning thought.
...Saint Paul church.
...tribute.
..the Flaubert bridge .
... which will rise soon for the Armada 2019.
..."my" island and the Seine
...the boatmen .
... houseboats.
.... the bare trees of Jacques Chastellain Avenue that leads to Lacroix Island
Mister does the "peacock" and Madam doesn't care ...
Distance of circumstance ...
Madam looks at whether Mister will dare a new squeeze up.
Madam gets tired.
Sir is getting a makeover.
Mr. sulks.
The Sir is handsome.
Walking down the steps without a red carpet!
Which of the Seine, the Corneille Bridge or the Cathedral is the Star?!
A star on Seine
"The Seine carried lumpy patches that stopped at the piers of the bridges and dissolved into firmaments." -Robert Desnos/Freedom or Love (1927) -
"What a winter ! I saw the Seine in Rouen completely frozen; this is only the third time in my long career that I have enjoyed this hyper-boroean show." Gustave -Flaubert/Correspondence, A Jules Duplan-
"Geography. Where would the seine flow if it took its source in the Pyrenees?" -Jean Tardieu-
"Great revolutions are born of small miseries like the great rivers of small streams." - Victor Hugo / Things views -
"Time is like a river, it doesn't go back to its source." - Antoine de Rivarol / Notes, thoughts and maxims -
"They go away, the sad thoughts, the widowed years, like a cork that hangs, for a moment, in the reeds of the river." -Francis Blanche -
"It is when one has lost it that one understands what freedom is. It's true. But it's not just prisons with bars, there are many more subtle ones that are hard to escape because you don't know you're locked up there." -Henri Laborit/The Spirit of the Attic (1992) -
"A man who deprives another man of his freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness." -Nelson Mandela/A Long Road to Freedom (1996) -
"Feelings travel through the narrowest bars, they leave without fear of distance, and know neither the boundaries of languages nor those of religions, they meet beyond the prisons invented by men." -Marc Lévy/Children of Freedom (2007) -
"I've met thieves in my life. Real ones! It's a dirty business and you have to know it to succeed, otherwise you end up behind bars. I, too, stole. No money. just a little bit of happiness and, you see, I paid." -Alice Parizeau/Survive (1964) -
"Strange, the air looks much better when it is not filtered by bars. Iron, I suppose." -Jean-Pierre Davidts/The Little Prince Found -
"Trees have an infinitely softer heart than the men who planted them." -Renaud / Tired -
"It's winter, the trees are made of wood." - Jules Renard / Journal -
"Trees have leaves in summer to get protected from the sun." - Francis Picabia -
March 26, 2019. I decide to go around the island, it is a dry and sunny cold day. Need to walk and want to take pictures, it smells like spring and I like it, the trees are budding, the magnolias are in bloom, the broom are full of sun and the bare trees will not be long in waking from their hibernation .
My logic has always been faulty, when I leave my house, I start by taking the left side of the island which I wrongly called "left bank". Because from this shore of the island, it is the right bank of Rouen that I see .... I will have taken time to make this deduction. What a misery, it was still my left-handed brain that played tricks on me! ...
Only abandoned boats in winter, Villetard will soon fill it with boats that will need a youthful boost to attack the summer in shape ...
Abandoned in the heart of Rouen.
The cemetery of abandoned boats.
"A single bird in a cage, freedom is in mourning." -Jacques Prévert / Fatras-
Have you noticed that the flowers that herald spring are often yellow?
Brooms color the Baya's path.
Behind a branch of the broom, I see the Seine, right bank, ... even if I took on my left, I'm definitely on the right bank...
"Fields of brooms and gorse shine with their flowers, which we would think of as golden butterflies." -François René, Viscount of ChateaubriandMémoires from beyond the grave (1848)-
The boatmen of Lacroix island
"Better to be a bird of bocage than of a cage." - French proverb-
Nirvana, Prisca... so many names that certainly remind a story to the owners of these barges.
"Ivy faithfulness, young vine entwinments, dove cooing, of course, and these are the first and simplest conditions." -Mademoiselle de Maupin/Théophile Gautier-
Maritime decoration.
He came to see me and immediately left when I didn't throw him any bread ... Ingratitude? ... no, he's a honest duck .
A barge for a bike
"Those who invented the steamboat. What do they know about the wind that inflates the sails?" - Seyranî / Tanpinar -
Don't want to go down...
"The boat is freedom, not just the means to achieve a goal." - Bernard Moitessier / Tamata and the Alliance-
"A boat is a beauty and a mystery wherever you see it." -Harriet Beecher Stowe / The Pearl of Orr's Island-
"When a man has a duck's beak, duck wings and duck legs: it's a duck. That's also true for little jerks. " -Michel Audiard / The Old Of The Old
Through the branches of the weeping willow, I see the houseboats below the Quay of Paris.
"Every struggle in life is nothing but chaos that yearns for order. Loneliness is a storm of silence that rips out all our dead branches." -Khalil Gibran/Sand and foam (1926)-
"Nothing is sadder than a sailor abandoned by his boat in a foreign country." -The Ship of the Dead/B. Traven-
"Everyone dreamed of living on an island one day." -Lorraine Fouchet / The morning boat-
"Raised the anchor, disappeared the shore, facing the empty horizon, feelings of anger and pity are as useless as a boat without a sail." -Douglas Reeman/Cap on Glory -
"Yann had found on this boat what he had been looking for months: to finally make sense of his life and to escape the world that was no longer his own." -Don't let the sea swallow you/Alain Jégou-
"A boat is just a pile of wood and metal, son. The only heart he has is that of those who sail him." -Bird hunters Island/ Peter May-
The boat is safer when it is in the port but that is not why the boats were built. -The Pilgrim of Compostela/ Paulo Coelho-
I took refuge under the willow as I did as a little girl at my grandmother's. I used to make it my home. A tender memory that makes me stupidly smile.
How old are you dear willow ?
"The evening was falling. A handful of stars were already crackling between the branches. No moon. Through the open windows was engulfed in the wet evening: it smelled like willow sap and cold pebble." -Robert Lalonde/Endangered Species (2007)-
"My dear friends, when I die, Plant a willow in the cemetery." I like its grieving foliage. -Alfred de Musset/New Poetry),Lucie-
"The pond reflects, Deep mirror, The silhouette of the Black willow." -Paul Verlaine/The Good Song (1872)-
"Can a laughing seagull comfort a weeping willow?" -Sylvain Tesson/Aphorisms under the moon and other wild thoughts-
"In my heart, many things... - Let them go according to the willow movements." -Hai-Kai/Matsuo Munefusa, says Basho-
"I found the digitized island, the vulgar belladonna, the common silica, the St. John's wort, the perennial thrush, the ash willow: sweet subjects of my first anthologies." -François René, Viscount of Chateaubriand/Memories from Beyond the Fall (1848)-
"Last the winter until the willow blooms." - Dictates-
"You are the one for whom the trees are budding and the flowers move!" -Iris/Didier Comès-
"There is your marine goodness like a fjord of sweetness, and the fir that remains green under white death Standing in the storm. He watches when the birch trees tremble While howling wolf and lynx." -Leopold Sédar Sengho/Ethiopics (1956)-
"Most human beings choose little more than the trees that have grown side by side and whose branches are confused by their growth alone." -The Viper Knot/François Mauriac-
"My dream of sixteen years, made of sun and spring begins to languish. There is less sap in the branches, some leaves fall. Hurry up, Sir Love, before the tree dies...." -Off the pitfall/ Hector Bernier-
"It is an April day the preferred month of troubadours because the nights are short and the air light, the sap begins to swell the branches and, in the buds, all the promises of spring burst out." -Alienor d'aquitaine/ Régine Pernoud-
"The ramier who exults among the branches, "The twigs that swing in the wind, " The wind that leans the white boats, " On the sea gleading through the branches, " -The New Foods/André Gide-
"The sun, the gold of the poor." -Natalie Clifford Barney-
"The moon is the dream of the sun." -Paul Klee-
"We need to believe in the sun at night." -Jean-Yves Boulic / Questions on the essentials
This is the park where children, parents and neighbours meet to spend pleasant moments together.
"You are the one for whom the trees are budding and the flowers move!" -Dieter Herman Comes, /Iris-
"Prosperity, health are in contempt, joy begins with the deprivations that kill the body. And so, triumphant, they live in gardens where flowers are stars, where the leaves of trees sing." -Emile Zola/The Dream (1888)-
Brooms of my heart
"The man looks at the flower, the flower smiles." -Koan Zen-
"The most beautiful of all flowers is the flower of freedom." -Jean Fischart -
"We compare flowers to women. We're wrong. There will always be between them, this difference that flowers are beautiful... and don't know it." -Alphonse Karr-
"A speck of dust doesn't stain a flower." -Rabindranàth Tagore / Four-voice -
"Our head is round to allow thought to change direction." -Francis Picabia / The Pine Apple (February 1922)-
"What is visible is only a reflection of what is invisible." -Rabbi Abba-
"The best mirror doesn't reflect the other side of things." -Japanese proverb-
"Reflection is for colors what echo is for sounds." -Joseph Joubert /Carnets-
"There are delicious spring rains when the sky seems to cry with joy." -Paul/Jean Toulet-
"Immobile, sitting without doing anything, spring comes, the grass grows." -Chinese Wisdom-
"They had let the young man pass for the time in which the graft was in favour, so that nothing wanted to grow any more from this wild trunk." -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg/Thoughts-
"Spring is the painter of the earth." -Conversation, entitled Disputatio (between Alcuin and Pepin, second son of Charlemagne)/ Alcuin-
"While at their perverse works Men run panting, Mars who laughs, despite the downpours, secretly prepares for spring." -First smile of spring/Theophile Gautier-
"Every season is the thought of the one before it. Summer verifies the gestures of spring." -The painter of Hertail/Hubert Haddad-
"Let the child grow and live, do not suffocate the flower in its germ. Don't throw your icy breath on its beautiful days of sunshine and spring." -Lelia/George Sand -
"For the philosopher and the poet, any reading becomes tasteless when, on a beautiful spring or autumn day, he has before his eyes the sublime spectacle of nature. .. It is then that he remembers that word from Bossuet: God alone is great." -Thoughts, maxims, reflections, observations/ Goswin de Stassart-
"The weeds of the desert endure, but the spring flower blooms and fades." -The kites of Kabul/Khaled Hosseini-
"The night, its phosphorus, nourishes the sun of the unborn day. Determinator no less than determined, the dream, in the labyrinths of its most particular volutes, designates their paths to general truths, to the decisions they command." -"Note on the margins of the game of truth"/ Rene Crevel-
"The big black and fat cat was sunbathing on the balcony purring and thinking how good it was to be there to receive the sun's rays, belly in the air, four legs bent and tail stretched." -History of the seagull and the cat that taught him to fly / Luis Sepulveda-
"In my wide open eyes the sun makes the joints, O garden of my eyes!" -Capital of Pain (1926)/ Paul Éluard-
"It is clear in any case that the day of my death will be a day of happiness for a crowd of inhabitants on earth - before the sun sets, many children will be born in my place and a multitude of weddings will be celebrated." -Rosa candida/Auur Ava
Above the hill, the sun was now deploying its range of light. Around us, nature appears to be new colors, and the remnants of fog seemed to melt and evaporate above the water." -Not easy to steal horses/ Per Petterson-
"I finally feel the sun burning my skin and I look up at the sky: blue and almost cloudless. I don't care now. I don't want to kill the sky anymore. And I found it bigger on earth." -Autobiography of a zucchini / Gilles Paris-
"We must not fear sunlight on the pretext that it has almost always served only to illuminate a miserable world." - René Magritte-
"Laughter is the sun, it drives winter out of the human face." -The Miserables / Victor Hugo-
"Old Indian has seen many things in his long life. However, he never tired of the majestic rise of the sun that paints the sky every day." -The bear that saw the man who saw art/Riff Reb's-
A nice couple of mallards. I say couple, but maybe they're just friends!...
"You could at the very least agree to live in the city, if you didn't become so boring by living there. Even the ducks in the pond, who see everything cooked in their beaks, lose their luster and character." -Bergsveinn Birgisson/The Letter to Helga-
"We don't reward losers, monk. In the world we live in, there is no mercy. Ducks swallow worms, foxes kill ducks, men slaughter foxes and the devil pursues men." -Ken Follett/The Pillars of the Earth-
"No, it wasn't the raft From the Medusa, this boat, Let's say it at the bottom of the ports, Say to the bottom of the ports, He was sailing in a mess On the big-pond of ducks, And gets the Buddies first Boyfriends First." -Georges Brassens/The Buddies First (1964)-
"That a life is happy, when it begins with ambition and ends up having no other dream than to throw bread at the ducks!" -Henry de Montherlant/The Demon of Good (1937)-
"When ducks and geese scream and dive into the water, it's a sign of rain." -French proverbs-
"A mother's love is the belief that her chicks are swans; which is the best way to cheer up children who are convinced that they are naughty ducklings." -Pam Brown/Mom or Mother-
"They confuse with the constellations of the abyss the stars that make in the soft mud of the quagmire the legs of the ducks." -Victor Hugo/Les Misérables (1862)-
When a crow flies over the Seine...
The island is the certainty of non-redemption. Proof of disability. The island is the last pontoon, the last stop before anything." -Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio//Storm-
"And even though I was still young, I should have deduced that the world in which I lived had wobbly and invisible foundations - I was a walker who walked on a rotten wooden pontoon hidden under the water." -Thomas H. Cook/Lessons of Evil
"A pontoon is a bridge too poor to make ends meet." -Sylvain Tesson/Aphorisms under the moon and other wild thoughts-
"Joy is like a river: nothing stops its course." -The Fire Tower (1955 edition)/Henry Miller-
"Life always finds its way like a river diverted from its bed by always digging another." -The scales of the rising/ Amin Maalouf-
What is a river without its source? What is a people without their past?" -Posthumous works of victor hugo ...: on a journey: Alps and Pyrenees/ Victor Hugo-
"It's been a long time since Madame that I gave up the oars and the river carries me around without ideal, simmering in my timbale." -Excerpt from the song Return to the Port of the album "Return to port"/ Mano Solo-
"Time is like a river, it does not go back to its source." -Selected works ... (1880 edition)/Antoine de Rivarol-
"The rivers run mixing themselves in the sea: the monarchies will get lost in despotism." -Works by Monsieur de Montesquieu (edition 1758)/ Montesquieu-
"We think of life as an immutable solid and we are amazed when time tells us that it is more of a liquid. You couldn't swim in the same river once, let alone twice." -The way back /Jim Harrison-
"What does it matter to me that you're wise? Be beautiful! and be sad! The weeping Add a charm to the face, like the river to the landscape; The storm rejuvenates the flowers." -The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire-
"It is easier for a river than for a man to succeed by being born in the stream." -Geography of the moment /Sylvain Tesson -
A rust survivor
It will no longer sail...
...since it has been transformed into a planter on the banks of the Seine.
The old boat has made way for the "little young girl" dressed in pink.
This season pink will be fashionable!
Resting this Monday of March...
The commotion will resume tomorrow.
Canoes are piling up like sandwiches.
The trailer takes fresh air ...
"All day I wanted to leave I couldn't. I wanted to accomplish this act of freedom so easy, so simple, going out to get in my cab to win Rouen I could not. Why?" -Guy de Maupassan/Le Horla (1887)-
"He paints Rouen Cathedral in all its truth, with the added bonus of the mysticism of the Middle Ages, spirituality and all the mess." -Jean Dutourd/Pluche or The Love of Art (1967)-
Selfishly, I love the space Jacques Anquetil also when it is only for me ... or almost.
I would almost want to be a painter in front of this steel easel... but I'm not.
An invitation to contemplation.
What do you think of my painting?!
A set by itself
"Looking at the world is not just sitting on a bench and covering it with your eyes; it is also to enter, to walk, to go around." -Chris Ware-
"If mass were to be said only for angels, the priest would say it in front of empty pews." -Julien Green-
"Open your eyes to the beauty of things; Feed on the scent of women and roses; Drink like a sandbank, and be good as a dog, and try to die well." -Raoul Ponchon/La Muse gaillarde-
"I like this bench. I've been here a lot since we first kissed. I caress the boards engraved by all the lovers who sat there before us. I want to read our names surrounded by a heart. I'm getting romantic. No, I'm romantic. You're revealing it to me." -Eva Kavian/The Art of Conjugating Married Men-
"Children don't know much about true friendship. They only have "buddies" or accomplices, and change friends by changing schools, or classes, or even benches." -Marcel Pagnol/The Castle of My Mother (1957)-
"Life is a book you love, it's a child playing at your feet, a tool that you hold well in your hand, a bench to rest in the evening in front of your house." -Jean Anouilh/Antigone (1942)-
"Dolmen: a megalithic set consisting of three stones arranged like a bench (hence the expression public dolmen). To avoid frequent confusion with the menhir, which is vertical, there is only one mnemotechnical process: ""the dolmen is lying down and the menhir rising! """ -Marc Escayrol/Mots and Grumots-
"The right bench jerked, in good weather, at the same times, under a skewer of little girls already large, tight and stirring like passers-by on the tile of a hot fireplace." -Sidonie Gabrielle Colette/La Maison de Claudine (1922)-
"This dawn had such a balsamic smell, that Florent thought himself for a moment in the countryside, on some hill. But Claude showed him, on the other side of the bench, the market for aromas." -Emile Zola/Le Ventre de Paris (1873)-
"Radiant words, words of light, with rhythm and music, that's what poetry is." -Theophile Gautier-
"Knowing how to smile: what a force of appeasement, a force of gentleness, calm, a force of radiance!" -Guy de Larigaudie-
"What flame could match the ray of sunshine on a winter's day?" -Henry David Thoreau-
"Five trees in the grip of petty gusts that marble this sky with livid bandages." -The laments/Jules Laforgue-
"It is that love is like a tree, it grows on its own, deeply casts its roots in all our being, and often continues to tingle on a crumbling heart." -Our Lady of Betting/Victor Hugo-
"Would my family tree have been felled to build a fugitive raft!" -Samarcande /Amin Maalouf-
When they cleared forests, they were found to be abusing. Of course the end of the trees or the end of the earth is not the end of the world but we had become accustomed. In the past, loggers had regard for trees, once loggers drank to their health." -Trees (1976)/ Jacques Prévert-
"Have you ever managed to convince a tree to bend in half to give way to the birds?" -See you/Marc Levy-
In the distance, you can see Bonsecours.
A branch? ... I see it as a drawing of nature.
A still life....
... brush that wakes up in the spring.
"Does God love sport? You can ask yourself the question by seeing so many supermen hatched behind the scenes of the stadiums while millions of skinny abortions go to work without a fuss." -Philippe Bouvard/Thousand and One Thoughts (2005)-
"Avoid playing sports carefully: there are people who get paid for it." Stephen Leacock-
"Men practice stress as if it were a sport." -Madeleine Ferron / The Way of the Ladies-
"Sport is a very bad idea: it makes you fat when you stop!" -Michèle Bernier / The Little Book-
"Youth is a sport that can - what do I say: that one must practice all one's life." -Henri Jeanson / Painters witnessing their time -
"The only sport I've ever played is walking, when I was following the funerals of my sports friends." -George Bernard Shaw-
"Played seriously, sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is overflowing with hateful jealousy, bestiality, contempt for all rules, sadistic pleasure and violence; in other words, it's war, guns less." -George Orwell-
"Make the old people of a country parade, and you will know the state of its sports." -Jean Giraudoux -
Going under the weeping willow still makes me smile ... it should not be called "cryer" but the happy willow .
I like to watch it play with the wind, see it in motion, its soup branches don't break. They're tough people.
I immobilize in photos its movements full of grace.
It has a solid appearance yet so flexible. Grand.
For a moment, it dances with the wind, poses to start again.
Majestic willow of happiness and fullness.
A pause and back on track...
A train and I think of my nephew. He is the king of trains. A six-year-old enthusiastic. His dream ? Driving a train. I love his passion, which may change as he grows, but his obsession since childhood is such that he lives, breathes and dreams trains. I admire his youthful passion. When others at his age dream of becoming firefighters orpolicemen, Milan dreams of driving a train. And he persists. It is out of the question to make him change his mind even while having fun.
These few photos that I managed to capture by chance (Duh ... a train is running fast, isn't it!) Are for him.
"Parallels are like the rails of a train, they rotate at the same time!" - Denis Guedj / The Parrot Theorem -
"The only sure way to catch a train is to miss the previous one." - Pierre Daninos / Holidays at all costs -
"The train of life is a small train, which goes from the mountains of boredom to the hills of joy." -Gilbert Bécaud / The Train of Life -
"The train, the poor man's car. All he needs is to be able to go everywhere." - Jules Renard / Journal (1905 - 1910)-
"The leaves you tread A rolling train Life is running out." - Guillaume Apollinaire-
"The journey is a dawn that never ends. Like Jim Harrison, I think it's beautiful, dawn, the dawns of the world, in St. Petersburg, Kenya, Mexico, everywhere, whether it's with the elephant drinking, the factories that smoke, the powdered Andes, Paris the mist behind Belleville. It is the dawn that is beautiful because it embellishes." -Dear Love (2009)/Bernard Giraudeau-
"You don't save a city with people but with investors, factories and taxes. You know this better than I do, better than anyone. That is the speech you will serve tomorrow to governments, to bankers. And yet, we can't save it without the people." -Thomas B. Reverdy/It was a city-
"Increasingly, industrial cancer is spreading throughout the world, poisoning air, water and organisms and devastating inhabited centres, as well as distorting and destroying chain-condemned men inside factories." -Elsa Morante/La Storia (1974)-
"Live as if you were to die in ten seconds. Look at the world. It is a thousand times more extraordinary than all the dreams that can be mass-produced in factories." -Ray Bradbury/Fahrenheit 451 (1955)-
"As if we had a choice! It was the last store still open miles away. The others had closed at the same time as the factories, and their carcasses were finally breaking down, winter after winter." -Xavier-Laurent Petit/Be safe (2007)-
"The priming and landscapes have a serious flaw, they are free. The love of nature does not provide work for any factories." -Aldous Huxley/The Best of the Worlds (1932)-
"The one who built, with her hands, your factories The one that Mr. Thiers said, "Let's shoot her!" " -Jean Tenenbaum, known as Jean Ferrat/Ma France (1969)-
"The fumes of the factories, lying down by the wind, cut parallel lines, vaporous and whitish the fogs that rose from the river." -André Maurois/The Family Circle-
"It is a mistake to believe, as I have long believed myself, that the factories in Essen only make cannons, shells, battleships and all other war machines." -Gaston Leroux/Rouletabille at Krupp (1917)-
"Resignation is to courage what iron is to steel." -Duke of Levis / Maximes and reflections-
"The habit begins like a silk thread and quickly becomes a steel cable." - Spanish proverb-
"Remorse is just a rust on the edge of a splendid steel." - André Suarès / Here is the Man -
"Intelligence is very little, if not supported by good judgment, by a character of steel." - Justin Lefebvre / Jean Rhobin -
"Today the doors of all the screening rooms are made of steel. Does cinema exclude light or does it include darkness?" - Jim Morrison / Far Arden -
"When you have adopted and experienced a friend, hang it on your soul with a spike of steel; but don't harden your hand in contact with the first fresh hatched comrade you will find." -William Shakespeare / Hamlet -
"It is in the fire that the iron soaks and becomes steel. It is in pain that man finds the revelation of his strength." -Henri Conscience / The Flemish Dramas -
"U.S.A.: Omni-power that owns two-thirds of cars, half of nuclear devices, a quarter of steel and almost all of the world's troubles." -Georges Elgozy / The Spirit of Words or the Anti-Ddictionary -
"The selfishness of the beings who were mixed themselves in our lives, when we think of them, older, is undeniable, as it was, that is, steel, platinum and much more durable than time itself." -Travel at the end of the night /Louis-Ferdinand Céline-
Arriving at the end of the island, this edge is less welcoming than the other side's one that overlooks the city. Fortunately the Seine is there to soften the landscape...
The flows are always powerful around these blocks of stones that maintain the bridges.
On this edge of the island, I like the view but I am also reassured to know that I am not a prisoner thanks to the bridge on the other side that leads to the city.
Watch out for small boats!...
A little tour to see St. Paul's Church and I head to the left bank of the island.
Industry vs. History
St. Paul's Church is located at the foot of St. Catherine's Hill, near the Mathilde Bridge, . The choir and apse ensemble has been classified as a historical monument since June 15, 1926. It is now closed to worship and disused since 2017.
"You must have a religion and not believe in priests as you should have a diet and not believe in doctors." -Complete works (edition 1869)/Voltaire-
To all questions about religion, I answer with this line from Mark Twain: "Religion is believing things that you know are not true." " -Gourmont / Steps on the sand-
"For myths are to religion what poetry is to the truth, ridiculous masks placed on the passion to live." -Complete works: 1931-1944 / Albert Camus-
"It is about religion as well as love: commandment can do nothing, even less compulsion nothing more independent than to love and believe." -Treaty on Tolerance: on the occasion of the death of jeans calas, 1763/Voltaire-
You can see the dome of the old communal school dating back to the 19th century. Then became a CFA that has now closed . The building will soon house housing.
"The sand castles facing the sea are a good school. They teach children humility." -Seven days in Clermont, /Denis Langlois-
"You learn a lot to be unemployed. You learn to hang out, to watch, to disobey, to curse even. Unemployment is a demanding school. You learn that you are nothing. It can be used." -14 July/ Eric Vuillard-
View of the sheds on the left bank.
The small path of the SPA (Animal Welfare socciety) which also leads to the shore.
Between the buildings, there are always trees and greenery, which makes the place very nice with nice spots where to walk.
The mulberry plants are dormant. Picking will take place in September ... if everything hasn't been eaten before...
"Alive"
No, it's not a Christmas tree!
"It is only when the cold of winter has arrived that we realize that pine and cypress lose their leaves after all the other trees." -Confucius-
"For an environmentalist to be elected president, trees would have to vote." -Coluche-
"Only the tree that has been affected by the onslaught of the wind is truly vigorous, for it is in this struggle that its roots, tested, are strengthened." -Seneca-
"I founded the Society for the Protection of Plants. We are putting mattresses under the trees to cushion the fall of the leaves." - Alphonse Allais-
"Who has not seen the road at dawn, between its two rows of trees, fresh, all alive, does not know what hope is." -Georges Bernanos-
"I like to rest my hand on the trunk of a tree in front of which I pass, not to make sure of the existence of the tree - of which I have no doubt - but of mine." -Christian Bobin-
"In this spring season of the year, when the air is soft and pleasant, it would be an insult to nature and a real pity not to go outside to see its magnificence and share its way of connecting heaven and earth." -John Milton-
"Ah! There are so many things between heaven and earth that poets are the only ones who have dreamed about it." -Friedrich Nietzsche-
"Having created heaven and earth, stars and plants and beasts, man and woman, God closes his door saying, "And now I am not there for anyone." -Thierry Maulnier-
"He treats his mother, the earth, and his brother, the sky, as things to buy, plunder, sell like sheep or shiny pearls. His appetite will devour the earth and leave behind only a desert." -Chief Seattle/Speech delivered in 1854 by Seattle (c. 1786-1866), chief of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes, before Governor Isaac Stevens of Chief Seattle-
"The wind has calmed down, the earth is damp with dew, the storm of stars in the sky will stop. And soon all of us will sleep under the ground, we who never let others sleep on it." -Insomnia and other poems/ Marina Tsvetaeva-
"Being two, we grow, being one, we refine, we stretch like a sculpture of Giacometti, stretched to the extreme, a play of matter, a head and feet, the earth and the sky, in the middle nothing." -Tania de Montaigne/Tokyo is far away (2006)-
"At his feet what you can cultivate and pick; on his head what one can study and meditate; a few flowers on earth and all the stars in the sky." -Victor Hugo/Les Misérables (1862)-
What's the point of seeing the void? We're so good at floating as long as it carries us. Between heaven and earth, on nothing." -Jeanne Benameur/One day, my princes came (2001)-
In the foreground, the Corneille Bridge and at the rear, you can see the Boieldieu Bridge.
It is called "the burnt house" . It is a ruin invested by squatters, their open-top house ...
"What does the man whose house has burned down wish? Let the whole world burn in turn." -Abu Shakour / The First Persian Poets-
Glad that the SPA(Animal Welfare Society) exists, unhappy that the animals are abandoned. It tears me apart when I hear in the aisle their complaints, I can not enter because I know that I would crack, that I would like to adopt them all.
Kindergarten closed since September 2019
It's sad a school without little ones ...
The avenue that allows me not to feel trapped on the island! I know that I seem ridiculous but whoever did not live on an island cannot understand this feeling which often inhabited me when I lived in Paros, this impression of suffocation, of turning in circles without being able to escape this very special mentality that islanders can have.
Today I live on an island with a bridge, it's wonderful!
"The Greeks had excellent artists. Their best-known works are the Avenue of Milo and the Apollo of the Reverberate." -Jean-Charles/The Continuous Cockroach Fair (1962)-
"The flat avenue stretched, with its lines of tall trees and low houses, its wide sidewalks." -Emile Zola/Le Ventre de Paris (1873)-
"The paths of his four farms could all lead to a great avenue that from Clochegourde would go in a straight line to branch out on the road to Chinon." -Honored by Balzac/The Lily in the Valley (1836)-
Orthodox denomination, Holy Vicito by his confession reminds me of Greece ...
"If it were as easy to do as it was to know what to do, the chapels would be churches and the cottages palaces." -William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice-
"How can you think freely in the shadow of a chapel?" -Anonymous / Inscription of May 68 on the sorbonne chapel-
"Beware of me! Alone and disappointed, I am a woman whose sentimental life is obviously not very orthodox." -Katarina Mazetti/The Dude of the Grave Next Door (2006)-
"The beliefs of others are superstitions. Ours are called religions." -Daughter of Fate/ Isabel Allende-
"American actress Cathy Ladman points out that "All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays." -To put an end to god/Richard Dawkins-
"Two weeks later, they were married. Herbert had meanwhile converted to religion... He'd forgotten which one, but it seemed fun, with elephant heads and stuff like that." -The old man who didn't want to celebrate his birthday / Jonas Jonasson-
"There are more enigmas in the shadow of a man who walks in full sun than in all religions of the past, present or future. (G. De Chirico, in the manuscript of the Paul Eluard collection)" -Short History of the Shadow/Victor Stoichita-
"What these fools who want to impose their religion by force do not understand is that if God really existed, he would never have allowed them to be so stupid." -The Cat / Philippe Geluck-
The magnolia of the canoe club.
"It is sickening my heart, the magnolia flowers in the squares. I look at them every night on my way home from high school, and every night, their big pale petals sting my eyes a little." -Pauline Delabroy-Allard/It's racontre Sarah -
"The magnolia has no rival but the palm tree, which swings its greenery fans at it." -François René, Viscount of Chateaubriand/Atala, or The Loves of Two Savages in the Desert (1801), Prologue-
"A magnolia flower Pure round like a circle snow went up to my window, reconciling me with beauty.../.. " -Pablo Neruda-
""If life is only a passage, on this passage at least sow flowers." - Montaigne-
"Love is a flower garden and marriage a field of nettles." -Finnish proverb-
"From the crumbly material what can be retained? Nothing, if not beauty. We must also be satisfied with cherry blossoms and chrysanthemums and the full moon." - Czeslaw Milosz-
What is the ideal? It is the fulfillment of the human soul. What is the human soul? It's nature's tallest flower." - Jean Jaurès-
An improvised bench in front of the canoe club
"There is in love a time when it is self-sufficient, where it is happy to be. During this spring when everything is bud, the lover sometimes hides from the beloved woman to enjoy it better, to see her better." -Honored by Balzac/The Human Comedy (1842-1852)-
"It is an April day, the preferred month of troubadours because the nights are short and the air light, the sap begins to swell the branches and, in the buds, all the promises of spring burst out." -Alienor d'aquitaine/ Régine Pernoud-
"Oh! I wish you could remember Happy days when we were friends. In those days life was more beautiful, And the sun is hotter than it is today. Dead leaves are picked up with a shovel. You see, I haven't forgotten... -Words by Jacques Prévert/ Sung by Yves Montand-
"If I saw on this plum tree a flower bud and said it was a plum, would I have lied? Not at all, I would have just preceded the truth of a season." -Amin Maalouf/The Gardens of Light (1991)-
"The shyest bud is proof that there is no real death." -William Blake -
"You are the one for whom the trees are budding and the flowers move!" -Iris / Didier Comès-
"Candlemas at your door is the end of the dead leaves." -French dicton-
"There are days illuminated by small moments of grace, a smell that makes your soul happy, a ray of sunshine coming in through the window, the sound of the downpour while still in bed, the snowy sidewalks or the arrival of spring and its first buds." -The first day/ Marc Levy-
"You never grasp the moment when things end, nor do you see the bud become leaf." -Flora Groult/Maxime or tear-
Living on Lacroix Island is also seeing the precarious coming to hide there, trying to go unnoticed, also finding some rest not far from the bustle of the city. As if you had to be invisible to the world. Precariousness is not a choice as some "self-righteous" dare claim. Accidents of life spare very few people, ending up on the street is violent.
These few photos are a discreet tribute to these people who live in solitude an intolerable situation.
And a reminder: "tomorrow, it could be me, you, anyone of us".
"Simon has just learned what precariousness is, what it's like to lose everything in an instant. A good reason to kill yourself" -Philippe Besson-
"When money-goers talk about the poor, they are pitiful in their ignorance of the realities of precariousness." -Patrick Louis Richard-
"The voices of voiceless men must prevent the powerful from sleeping." -Abbé Pierre/Thoughts (1912-2007)-
I admit that the graffiti opposite is becoming more and more illegible! It is time for it to be refurbished, which will not be long, the good weather arriving ... and leaving again these last days ...
Click on the image if you want to see the photos of the tags and graffiti that I could see on the island. Some happier than others ...
I like to listen to the birds singing in the parking lot and the adjoining roofs. They appease me in general and, in this period of confinement in particular, they do me a lot of good. They do not know it, will never know it but I thank them for it. Their song in this silence, often heavy in this agonizing period, is a hymn to life, a moment of happiness, a breath of joy. They are so small and yet so powerful when they harmonize their song. A musicality that must have inspired more than one musician in the past, long before electro, when nature was a source of inspiration.
I do not know the names of the birds but there is one that I baptized "my orchestral bird", when I hear him I stop everything. He is so fine, so small and yet capable of playing several instruments at the same time. He makes me smile. He enchants me.
A few days ago, something rare, he landed in the parking lot to sunbathe, take a break in a place which these days presents no danger to him. I took the opportunity to take a picture of him, he who spins all the time and is so difficult to follow. (March 2020)
"We are birds of passage, tomorrow we will be far away." -Gypsy proverb-
"Poets are birds: every noise makes them sing." -François René de Chateaubriand / Memoirs from beyond the grave
"We'd like to have that courage of the birds in winter." -Françoise Lefèvre / Happy Minutes
"Birds are like love, it's always there. All species disappear, but not birds. Like love." -Marguerite Duras / The Sailor of Gibraltar-
"The woods would be a particularly silent place if only the most gifted birds sang." -Bernard Meltzer-
"All birds do their best, they set an example." -Jacques Prévert / Lyrics-
"Without irony, the world would be like a forest without birds." -Anatole France-
"If love only caused sorrow, the birds of love would not sing so much." -Philippe Quinault-
"Words are wild birds that you never catch up with, once you release them." -Jean Simard / Queen's Hotel
What a horrible word! From a trivial word in the dictionary, it turned out into a stressful monster. I don't think any of us would ever have believed nor imagined living such an awful period. I thought that this kind of event only happens in movies, that only twisted minds are able to imagine such stories. But that was before.
If this pandemic is going to change our lives forever, I will not be talking here about the policies pursued and how we were taken for fools by politics, which has so often made me angry. I still am furious. Another very frenchy way too was to think before the lockdown that the virus would not reach us, just as the Chernobyl cloud had stopped at our borders at the time !!! It would have been laughable if the pandemic was not going to claim so many victims. From March 16 to May 11, 2020, it was therefore necessary to live at the rate of confinement and travel certificates. Psychologically, it was very complicated because this confinement was largely due to the government's lack of anticipation: no masks so we are all locked up! And I'm not talking about the "unlock" which was managed like the rest: in the most total confusion ...
No longer able to take my walks while closed in, I took pictures of what I was seeing from my window, I cannot thank enough the birds who, then, brightened up my restricted horizon.
During the lock down, this chimney worn by time has become for me a piece of art.
An casual object that had become exceptional.
And it lasted 2 months!...
Only the bird knows how to free himself from this confinement.
"Everyone is locked in his conscience as in his skin." -Arthur Schopenhauer-
"Chivalry: deliver beautiful virgins from the castles of others and lock them in his." -Levison-
"The animal, even wild, when you keep it locked up, forgets its courage." -Tacitus / Stories-
"We are building mad houses to make those who are not locked up believe that they still have the reason." -Michel de Montaigne-
"Freedom is a sensation. You can sometimes reach it, locked in a cage like a bird." -Camilo José Cela / Rest Pavilion-
"The caged bird will dream of clouds." -Japanese proverb-
"The flying bird has no master." -Occitan proverb-
"Better to be a bird of bocage than of a cage." -French proverb-
"One bird in a cage, freedom is in mourning." -Jacques Prévert / Fatras-
"At the height of the storm, there is always a bird to reassure us. He's the unknown bird, he sings before he flies away." -René Char / Morning Redness-
"Could it be that a man is less wise than a bird?" -Confucius-
"The bird has freed himself from the earth. From now on he will be a prisoner of the sky." -Valeriu Butulescu / Aphorisms-
"The older the bird, the less he wants to get rid of his feather." French ProverbFrom French Proverb
"You have to be light like the bird and not like the feather." -Paul Valery-
"We catch the bird with seeds and the man with crowns." -Russian proverb-
"Even when the bird walks you feel he has wings." -Antoine-Marin Lemierre / Fragments of the poem of pomp-
"The word must be dressed as a goddess and rise like a bird." -Tibetan proverb-
"In love, sometimes the bird takes the birder." -Victor Hugo / Me, love, woman-
"A word is a bird in the middle of a page. It's infinity." -Antonio Soler / The Way of the English-
Above the roofs, I see a space of freedom: St. Catherine's Hill.
It suddenly seems so unreachable.
This skylight is the symbol of our space of freedom during confinement.
Confusion. As with the lockdown, the government's rhetoric is unclear. One thing is however very pleasant, no need for a certificate to leave your home. However, we feel that we cannot get back to normal, that our lives have changed.
In the meantime, I'm timidly taking pictures again, with my mobile this time (with results that don't always satisfy me but hey ...), unable to take out my camera for the moment, as if everything I was doing was still in parenthesis.
"A life without emotion is a lost life." -Roger Fournier / A us two-
"Life deserves to be given his life." -Jacques Foch-Ribas / Silence or perfect happiness-
"Life is a scam." -Steve McQueen-
"Life is plagiarism." -Patrice Delbourg-
"Every life deserves our tears." -Nancy Huston / Instruments of Darkness-
"A life that seeks one's life is not a life." -Menandra / Fragments-
"Life is a string of minutes." -Paul Reynaud-
"The chances of our lives are like us." -Elsa Triolet / Camouflages-
"Forgetting is life." -Alphonse Allais / Long live life!-
I said, "Ah! That life is so ordinary!" -Jules Laforgue-
"Despise life to enjoy it." -Jean-Paul Richter-
"Everyone eats the fruit of their life." -Marguerite Taschereau-
"Analysis kills life." -Eugene Cloutier / Witnesses-
"Life is an interrupted sentence." -Victor Hugo / Prose Philosophy-
"Every moment is the entire life." -Yolande Chéné / Fear and love-
"Life is a journey with a parachute." -Vicente Huidobro / Altazor-
"Death destroys but life degrades." -Jean of the City of Mirmont-
"When you love life, you sleep." -Roland Topor / Journal in Time-
"Human life is a transient dew." -Japanese proverb-
"Music doubles life." -Sully Prudhomme / Happiness-
"Life always ends badly." -Marcel Aymé / The Moon Birds-
"In life, everything is a sign." -Paulo Coelho / The Alchemist-
"Every life has its destiny." -Henri-Frédéric Amiel / Diary-
"Life is made of hope." -Eric Tabarly / Memoirs of abroad-
"Our life is only movement." -Michel de Montaigne / Essays-
"Life makes everyone comedians." -Arlette Cousture / The daughters of Caleb-
"Life is ruthless for dreamers." -Gilles Archambault / The Still Escape-
"You have to look at life as a farce." -Louis Scutenaire / My entries-
Perched on floating wood, he sails...
He floats with the current
In the early morning, the seagulls have fun, fly away and twirl
They brighten up a grey morning.
"Life is disproportionately long, disproportionately short." -Georges Perros / Papers glued-
"Life is a great disillusionment." -Oscar Wilde / The Portrait of Dorian Gray-
"Life is unpredictable weather." -Claude Lelouch / Route of a very spoiled child-
"I loathe this life that I like." -Emil Michel Cioran / The disadvantage of being born
"You might as well fail your life as best you can." -Nicolas Rey-
"Thinking about death shortens life." -Russian proverb-
