The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
25 Comments CherryPie on Jan 6th 2013
The silhouetted buildings are Ecole Militaire and the Montparnasse tower.
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 5th 2013
This week’s prompt was “Leaving one year behind and going into the next“.
The last few years have always presented difficulties for me even though I have always cast out the old year with it’s problems and tried to bring in more positive outcomes for the incoming New Year.
This year for some reason I felt quite different over the Christmas/New Year period and I still feel quite different despite some complications and irritations that re-surfaced over the Christmas period and into the New Year.
This photo was taken on a failed mission to deliver Christmas presents three years ago on Christmas Eve. It was the last Christmas I spent with my father before he passed away.
The memory of visiting that lake shrouded in mist always brings a smile to my face 
More photos on the theme can be found here.
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 4th 2013
This is a collage of some of the photos I took of the travelling Buddy Bears when they were displayed underneath the Eiffel Tower last Autumn.
On my recent weekend away in Paris I went up the Eiffel tower and when I looked down at the Champs de Mars from the viewing platform I noticed, through the morning mist, two rows of “people” lined up on either side of the lawn. I decided to investigate a little more closely after I had descended the tower.
On closer inspection I found that they were bears rather than people and that they formed a touring exhibition of United Buddy Bears. The bears are on display in Paris (for a few weeks) to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the twinning of Paris and Berlin and the 50thanniversary of the Élysée Treaty.
You can find out more about the project (including my thoughts) in my post ‘The Art of Tolerance” or on the official ‘United Buddy Bear” site.
14 Comments CherryPie on Jan 3rd 2013
