Indian summer

While storm Leslie ravages Portugal and parts of Spain, we enjoy a warm summer day. In October.  While 2/3 of France is fast turning into a desert, no rain for many months...

The green side. Underneath.

A very rare green-bellied swan!!! Ain't that a great sight? :-)

The dark side

As usual every Friday, click here to enjoy more black and white!

Rouge

The town is turning red, for a few weeks.

A national treasure

Roger Siffer, singer (in French, Alsatian and German)., radio guy, humorist, activist, owner of an old sauerkraut factory, now a theater/cabaret/restaurant. Former neighbor. One of the most famous Alsatians worldwide, after Tomi Ungerer. Here, his first LP, Follig (folks) Song, 1972.

Down by the river...

A Monday Mural

The completed (?) mural I watched Dan23 creating 2 weeks ago. It says: free your heart, free yourself from your fears.
More here.

Quai des Bateliers

Very unusual decoration... I couldn't any information about it. Anyone knows?

Before sunrise

6 AM on my balcony, sipping the first coffee of the day

Wedding photo shoot in black and white

Ciao! Last Tuesday, during my customary visit to the Duomo in Milan, I came upon this couple, surrounded by a small army of people armed with professional looking photo gear. Some celebs? I don't know But I'm wishing them a happy life! And no, this is not Captain Picard of the USS Enterprise!
More b&w here, as usual.

Chiesa di San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore

While strolling aimlessly through the streets of Milan, I came upon this absolute gem. I'll show you more...later

Lago di Garda

Probably one of my favorite places to just sit down and look.

A Monday Mural, on Tuesday, for a change

Ciao from Milano, Italia. A delayed Monday mural, as I was travelling the whole day yesterday.
An antifascist mural near Milano Lambrate train station, as Italy is turning very unfortunately into a fascist regime, in my opinion. Until there is a change in government, as usual in Italy... 61 governments since 1945...
More Monday Murals here.

Monthly theme day: change

Change... Well, the weather is definitely changing, no more sweltering heat, I even started wearing socks again, believe or not! No more sandals this year.
Anyway, you may notice the part about me being an eternal nomad on my header pic. Therefore, as I have a little CHANGE, and as I need a CHANGE, I'm going to Italy tomorrow, for a few days. Gonna start my Christmas shopping early for a CHANGE, instead of the usual last minute run...
More CDP theme day pics and posts here

Sunny Palais U

The Palais Universitaire, old imperial university, neo-Renaissance building, built by the Germans between 1879 and 1884. The architect, Otto Warth, was very inspired by Italy.
Nowadays, it still is the main university building, largely administrative for the 64000 students. This weeks, it is hosting a musical event, based on 80es music.

Structure

It's all about structure, here a door in the Krutenau area, this black and white weekend

Wild wild west

A few meters from the Vietnamese I posted yesterday, a free bluegrass/country concert. More my type of music.

Việt Nam

I recently went to a fair, which had, among many others things, Vietnamese handicraft, music, dance and food. As a lover of things Asian , I couldn't miss this! Lots of things I love about the country, the people, the culture, the food... The music? Guess you have to be used to it.
And I love the fact that they threw both French and American invaders out! Well done, Viet Nam!

The bunny is asking:

Is it Easter yet?

A Monday Mural, by Dan23

There is a small zoo in town, but without zebras... So far!
3 days... Dan23, the most prolific street artist in town, started this mural last Friday. It was supposed to be finished by Sunday, but we had a massive wind storm yesterday (Florence was here). So... I didn't have the time to check on it today, but I'll show you the entire mural... next week.

And this is Dan himself, nice guy. He has the city's permission to paint wherever he likes, which I think is pretty unique, in this rather conservative town!
His website is here, and there is a lengthy and very interesting interview here. Both are in french, you might need (or not) a translation tool.
More exciting Monday Murals here, in Sami's very colourful world.