Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Paris 2012
From Wiki:
The two fountains in the Place de la Concorde have been the most famous of the fountains built during the time of Louis-Philippe, and came to symbolize the fountains in Paris. They were designed by Jacques Ignace Hittorff, a student of the Neoclassical designer Charles Percier at the École des Beaux-Arts. The German-born Hittorff had served as the official [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 6th 2013
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Ready Steady GO!!!
10 Comments CherryPie on Feb 4th 2013
Filed under Out & About
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow.
Jerry Spinelli (B 1941)
14 Comments CherryPie on Feb 3rd 2013
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From Wiki:
The center of the Place is occupied by a giant Egyptian obelisk decorated with hieroglyphics exalting the reign of the pharaoh Ramesses II. It is one of two the Egyptian government gave to the French in the nineteenth century. The other one stayed in Egypt, too difficult and heavy to move to France with [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Feb 3rd 2013
Filed under This & That
This weeks photo prompt was:
Do you have a secret wish?
Do you wish for yourself or do you make wishes for your loved ones?
It might be hard to capture that wish with your camera,
so maybe you can share its essence with a photograph
and write a bit about wishes in general.
I wrote a post just before Christmas [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Feb 1st 2013
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I invite you to join me at Vision & Verb where ponder on the fact that a few snowflakes brought England to a halt.
4 Comments CherryPie on Feb 1st 2013
