In the madness of Rouen
People can bitch as much as they want because there is always work going on in town, because the city is this or that. I continue to love Rouen and to admire this magnificent city, the events, the efforts made by the traders during the holidays, I never cease to be conquered like the day when I saw umbrellas and frames hanging from the windows of a street adjacent to the Gros Horloge.
A gift. A smile on this gray day.
A Christmas between umbrellas and nude frames
A Christmas more original than with garlands
Deco recycling
A flower of umbrellas
Rouen with joy
Simply awesome
Some great ideas !
Ephemeral
A favourite
Umbrellas ...
... in sunny colors for a lovely month of October. Indian summer in Normandy is wonderful even if it is not good for the planet. Everyone as much as we are savoring every moment and warming our "old" bones ... mine in this case!
The belly party - 2018 edition - is in full swing on this pretty Saturday, October 13th and these pretty umbrellas announce the color ...
Long live the party and good-humored people!
"Do your best. Then open your old umbrella and walk quietly under the downpour of criticism that will no longer reach you." - Dale Carnegie -
"Umbrellas are widowers who mourn the missing sunshades." - Ramon Gomez de la Serna / Greguerias -
"Today we take an umbrella because the TV said it was going to rain. In the old days, we would have looked at the sky." -Michel Serres -
In the rain the umbrellas brighten my day
"An open umbrella is a beautiful closed sky." -Xavier Forneret / Brush of Thought -
"Some people want it to rain on the pretext that they have embarrassed themselves with an umbrella." -Grégoire Lacroix / The Euphorisms of Gregory -
"Friendship is an umbrella that has the defect of turning around when it's bad weather. " -Pierre Veron -
"It's not the pure hearts that avoid the downpour, but the people with umbrellas." - Anatole France -
The Armada seen from Massacre Street
The shopkeepers on this street know how to be creative on any occasion.
"He knew that women like to console, and that wearing heartaches in a scarf is the best way to succeed with them." -Alphonse Daudet/Port-Tarascon: last adventures of the illustrious Tartarin (1890)-
"I prick up my ears and listen to winter. I don't move, yet the snow is there, it falls on me and just buttons its cape on my back and tie its scarf to my neck." -Marie-Sabine Roger/All White (2013)-
"Friendship, you know, is like a very soft scarf in which you wrap. -Karine Lambert/The Women's Building Who Gave Up Men (2014)-
"Caught in the cold, the weather was covered with a scarf of mist." -Sylvain Tesson/Aphorisms Under the Moon and Other Wild Thoughts (2008)-
"The procession, first united as a single colored scarf, which unduly in the countryside ... soon grew longer and cut himself into different groups that lingered to talk." -Gustave Flaubert/Madame Bovary (1857)-
"... and you, Air Who, like a veil of mourning, threw your scarf On the abandoned land, leave her naked To the merry stars who smile with his despair!" -Percy Bysshe Shelley/Adonaïs-
"The goddess had fled on her golden conque, - The sea sent back to us her beloved image, and the heavens radiated under The scarf of Iris." -Gérard de Nerval/The Chimeras, Horus-
"Rainbow, the scarf of thunder." -Jules Renard/Journal-
The Armada is celebrated in the streets of Rouen
Already in May 2019 pennants and flags bearing the effigy of the countries decorated the streets of Rouen, suggesting a great event to come. But which one?
It took me a little while to guess that it was for the Armada, a moment that I was looking forward to ...
Petit Salut street.
Champmesle street.
The medieval buildings with the colours of England... Historically, it does it .
... I go to discover the other streets ...
Cauchoise street .
Brazil , on Bec street with a view on the Courthouse
In the Saint-Maclou district, the pennants were multicolored.
Damiette street .
Also known as the "Street of Antiques"
You can see from Damiette Street, The Abbey of Saint-Ouen.
Père Adam street.
The street of Father Adam as seen from the Street of the Republic.
House located on Father Adam Street.
St. Maclou's Church, on the side of Martainville street.
Martainville street.
But give me back my sneakers!
The residents of Massacre Street are always very creative.
It's contemporary art on a medieval street in Rouen
A nice way to recycle...
Inspiration
"An unhappy people make great artists." -Alfred de Musset / Lorenzaccio-
"All artists are truth-loving liars." -Robert Bolt / Interviews-
"Poor artists, glory comes to them when they are buried!" -Harry Bernard / The Fallen Man-
Immaculate
"Who swallows his umbrella inevitably walks straight." -Anonymous / The Pine Apple (February 25, 1922)-
"The mushrooms come out with their little umbrella too late." -Jules Fox-
"I must have forgotten my umbrella in the elevator. My umbrella must be very worried about losing me." -Erik Satie / Writings-