This week's theme for Photo Hunt is nautical.
I had a hard time picking only one picture ... in fact, I just could not!
So I decided to publish this series of pictures, taken May 2008 in Honfleur, Normandy France.
To find more pictures with this theme, click here.
I love creating special effects with half sepia.
I opened this picture with Corel Paint Shop Pro x12 and duplicated it.
I then used the sepia effect on this layer, and removed the sepia layer from the flowers
using the eraser tool.
Find more Sepia Scenes pictures here.
This week's theme is "wide"
The water is wide
And I cannot get o'er;
Nor yet have I
The wings to fly;
Bring me a boat
That can carry two
And both shall row -
My love and I.
Down in the meadow
The other day,
Gathering flowers
Both bright and gay,
Gathering flowers,
Both red and blue,
I little thought
What love can do.
I leaned my back
Against an oak,
Thinking it was
A trusty tree,
But first it bent
And then it broke,
Just like my own
False loving be.
Oh love is gentle
And love is kind,
Bright as a jewel
When first it's new,
But love grows old
And waxes cold
And fades away
Like the morning dew.
There is a ship
And it sails the sea;
It's loaded deep
As deep can be,
But not so deep
As this love I'm in.
I know not if
I sink or swim.
The water is wide
And I cannot get o'er,
Nor yet have I
The wings to fly;
Bring me a boat
That can carry two
And both shall row -
My love and I.
I found a very nice version of this old Irish song by Vangelis. Just click on the radio to hear the music.
I'm supposed to be wordless today...
But, um ... shhhhh!
Melli wanted me to find a dragon, so shhhhhh!!!
Here they are ...
Find more dragons at Melli's blog,
and get your Wordless kicks here
From our recent trip to Normandy ....
I better not tell you how I had to crawl
on my knees in a verge to take this picture! ;-))
Todays Project Blue picture ...
If you want to see others,
visit Anna's blog ....
Just a pretty picture ...
From our trip to Normandy, a cute gift shop in Troufleur, Normandy, France.
Don't forget to visit the other Wordless Wednesday players!
Wordless Wednesday or No words Wednesday?
Today is the "N" in Quilly's alphabet.
I'm joining both ABC and Wordless Wednesday today,
with pictures of "les Normandes".
They are the pride and joy of Norman farmers.
If you want to know more about them, click on this link.
It's supposed to be Wordless Wednesday too, I'll better shut up!
Look at them, aren't they gorgeous?
Visit the other Wordless Wednesday players here,
and don't forget to say hello to the ABC players here!
For this week's Weekly Winners I took some pictures of the Normandy Bridge.
Remember, I posted a You Tube video of it, two weeks ago.
I tried to capture it from every possible angle,
we even ignored " no trespassing signs"
just to get the last series at the bottom of this post!
So here we go ...
When we came back, we had very good weather ...
But the bad weather pictures we took
on our way up turned out better,
you'll see what I mean in a minute or so.
This is the bad weather on our way up.
It was the first glimpse of the bridge we got,
as we were paying our five euro toll money.
See, this does look better with good weather.
Right?
This is how bad the weather was on our way up.
Lucky for us, it was a little bit further away,
we were not really in it!
We wanted a little bit more than just the usual pictures
of the crossing of the bridge,
and we tried to find a different angle.
We ignored a "no trespassing" sign,
and drove along this road for a while,
to get you these magnificent pictures.
(Forgive me, I'm rather proud of these!)
That dark sky really adds to the drama, I think.
This is what you get with good weather ...
Hmmm, not bad, but the next one is much much better!
And this is my ultimate "bad-weather-Normandy-Bridge" picture,
I saved the best for last! ( I think? )
I never would have imagined
bad weather pictures to come out better?!
This is my weekly Winners for this week!
Don't forget to visit the others at Lotus's blog!
I'll be doing this tomorrow,
and I'll do an update on Quilly's ABC as well.
I really haven't got much blogging time today,
we are celebrating my mother's 75th birthday,
and mother's day at the same time, so ...?
Please, please please forgive me,
I'll be visiting all of you on Monday, OK?
See you!!!
Photohunt wants me to publish any picture today.
I joined Quilly's ABC photo meme as well,
so I'll have more than one picture here today.
This ruin is part of the prison where
Jeanne d' Arc was held captive on her way to her trial.
Vist the other Phothunt players here.
J is for Jeanne d' Arc .
It's always nice to have a historical feature
if you own a restaurant, especially in France.
We had lunch in this cute restaurant, called Jehanne d' Arc.
There was this wall in the back of the garden,
it's the other side of the prison wall!
Now if you ask me, it seems to me Jeanne d' Arc
... was held prisoner in numerous places, all over France!
But I bet our food was better than hers!
Visit the other ABC players at Quilly's blog.
I joined in a little later than the rest of you,
so I'm doing an update with the letters I've missed.
All of the pictures were again taken
on my recent trip to Normandy by the way!
A is for ... alley.
I saw this alley in Honfleur, the first day of our visit.
B is for .... boat .
C is for ... carroussel
D is for .... decoration.
E is for ... exelling.
Maybe a little explanation to that last picture.
We visited a cider farm, and while we were waiting
I snapped a few pictures. These colourful plaques
drew my attention. I investigated them a little closer and learned
they were vintage plaques, prizes this farm had obtained
over the years for the cider they make.
These are very old ones from the the fifties and even the thirties.
Click to enlarge this one, you'll be able to read them better!
That it for now, I'll be back later today with my "I" picture!
Please visit the others at Quilly's blog!
