Rouen under the snow
My years in Greece were not wasted, the adage which says "why do today what I can do later" rubbed off on me forever !!
Do I have any qualms? ... sometimes ... when my share of French conscience actually strikes me.
These photos of snow-covered Rouen were taken in February 2018 ... it only took me a few months and the return of near winter to think again about it. This is all me ...
I'm still like a kid, or rather, I become a kid again when I see the snow fall. I love it especially when it hasn't been walked on yet. It's wonderfull.
On the island of Paros, I have only seen it once in 18 years. Once I will never forget so wonderful the show was. It had not snowed since the 60s on the Cyclades, Life stopped, none of us was prepared for it. We had to adapt; no school, no traffic. Nothing but the laughter of the children who radiated in the middle of this white silence.
My son, who was barely 5 years old, saw snow for the first time. He was already aware that he was not ready to relive this event and therefore came to the kitchen to get a salad bowl.
Why?
Because he wanted to put snow in this bowl and keep it as a souvenir in the freezer !!!
As for my animals, they quickly took shelter, except, Eros, my rotweilleir who feasted on trying to gobble up the flakes.
It remains for me an unforgettable day of joy.
Sorry Mister Corneille!
Not only did you risk getting cold, but the snow was falling so hard that I caught you in the dark.
I know that I am not paying you a fair tribute, but, sincerely, my heart was in it.
What a pleasant morning surprise!
even if I know that facing the snow and the resulting inconvenience is not "funny" ... at all. There is always in me this little girl who re-emerges for a moment and the woman who risks falling down when I return to the reality of things ...
Early morning...
"Fall the snow..."
"Slowly, softly, it gets ll white"
Snow mattresses on rooftops
"Bright flakes"
"A fan ..."
" The snow is quickly fading away..."
"Why do men worship abstract chimeras more than the beauty of snow crystals?"
- "In the Forests of Siberia" by Sylvain Tesson-
Immobility
Softness of snow
Do not touch anything, just contemplate
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Rouen
...; White Lady for a day ....
"White Lady for a day"
"The artist is a snow sculptor." -Pierre Fresnay-
"Who has more roofs has more snow." -Persian proverb-
"Who trusts women writes in the snow." -Paul Fleming / Epigrammata-
"The snow doesn't fall in Paris: it melts." -Alain Schifres / The Parisians-
"Snow never breaks the branch of the willow." -Japanese proverb-
"Magpie on the farm, short-term snow." -French proverb-
"Who walks in the snow can't hide his way." -Chinese proverb-
"Happiness is like snow: it is sweet, it is pure and... it melts." -Claire Malesset-
Saint-Maclou church
"How monotonous the snow would be if God hadn't created the crows." -Jules Fox-
"So comes the snow after the fire, and even the dragons have an end." -J. R. R. Tolkien / Bilbo the Hobbit-
"Words of honor... it's like snow... it melts in front of the sun !..." -Eugene Labiche / The Misanthrope and the Auvergnat-
"Don't kill the gull
Who flat on the flow screaming
Or who touches it ,
Because it is the soul of a sailor
Who flat above a tomb
And cry ... cry! "
- The gulls by Lucien Boyer (1911) -
"We call in love the one who, running on the snow, leaves no trace of his steps." -Turkish proverb-
"Old age comes suddenly, like snow. One morning when you wake up, you realize that everything is white." -Jules Fox-
"There is no winter without snow, spring without sun, and joy without being shared." -Serbian proverb-
"Everyone has a virgin forest in him, a stretch of snow where no bird has left its mark." -Virginia Woolf / Illness-
"If illuminating are the great texts, they give less light than the first snowflakes." -Christian Bobin / The More Vivid
"Loving is the one who, running in the snow, leaves no trace of his steps." -Turkish proverb-
"Let's love the snow! Otherwise, we risk breaking our poetic balance and forgetting our human condition." -Francis Bossus / The Fortress-
"Would you be as chaste as ice and as pure as snow, you would not escape slander." -William Shakespeare / Hamlet-
"Snow is nothing, of the nothingness we spend our lives moving between two short summers." -Pierre Turgeon / Hitler's Boat-
"Men are building too many walls and not enough bridges."
- Isaac Newton-
"In the simplest style, whether the sentence is blank, we want a fresh snow where no one has walked yet." -Jacques Chardonne / Love is much more than love-
"The world is in the hands of strategists / Black suit, beige tie / Or white turban like snow / Who play well funny games." -Francis Cabrel / "The cork oak"-
"At Christmas I don't want more roses than I would like to snow in the spring. I love every season for what it brings." -William Shakespeare / Lost Love Penalties-
"There are people who manage to write their name in the snow by peeing... among them, however, there are more Luke and Jo than Christopher !" -Philippe Geluck / My tongue at the cat-
"Man, the noblest part of this earth, melts so easily in the manner of a statue, not of stone, but of snow." -John Donne / Sacred and secular poems (1633)-
"Can there be a place on earth where things are upside down, where trees grow down while rain, hail and snow fall upwards? The crazy idea that the earth is round is the source of this stupid legend." -Lactantius Firmianus / De Opificio dei-
"Hate burns everything; it's a deserted, barren wind." -Maurice Gagnon / Snow Curtain-