Les Ponts Couverts

Ponts Couverts, covered bridges, are part of very old line of fortifications who protected the town from invaders in the 13th century. More about them here.

Les Ponts Couverts, partie des vieilles fortifications protegeant la ville des envasseurs au 13eme siecle. Plus d'infos ici.

Illusion

Trompe-l'oeil, rue Sainte Helene

Enfin! Finally!

First (little) snowfall of this winter! And suddenly, the town becomes the stuff of (icy) dreams...

Premiere petite chute de neige. Et soudain, la ville prend un aspect feerique...

Orangerie monochrome

It is winter here in Alsace, so nobody uses the rowing boats in the Orangerie park.

Personne n'utilise les barques du parc de l'Orangerie.

To see more monochrome photos/pour voir d'autres photos en noir et blanc... ici/here!

Weekend reflection

La terrasse Vauban, partie des vieilles fortifications. Un peu de magie pour le weekend.

A part of the old 17th century fortifications. Much nicer in peaceful times

More/plus de Weekend Reflections ici/here!

Lost... Perdu...

Lost and found office, Lost blonde girl, 6 ft, blue eyes... Will come back.

Bonne chance!

The red house - la maison rouge

A rich burger's house near the cathedral

Maison bourgeoise cossue, pres de la cathedrale

Jack

I saw quite a few elephants in my lifetime, last on a highway in New Delhi, but this is a first for me! He is HIP!

J'ai vu bien des elephants dans ma vie, le dernier sur une autoroute a New Delhi, mais celui-ci sort du lot!

Look me in the eye...

I'm watching you, with that big black thing pointing at me!

Serena, Barney, Helmut, Rose, Princesse & Gordon, la menagerie

Sometimes, it's hard for me to differentiate between a graffiti and a painting. Let us call this... art. The artist in this case is called Delphine Harrer.

Difficile de differencier graffiti and toile. Ceci est en pleine vue et rue, appelons ca de l'art, tout simplement. L'artiste s'appelle Delphine Harrer, cliquez ici pour en savoir plus.

Bucolique - Bucolic

And not a cat to be seen...

Et pas un chat dans le coin...

Weekend reflections...

Monochrome cathedral

Le grand orgue de la cathedrale. Votre weekend en noir et blanc commence ici!

The cathedral's main organ, in all it's splendor. Your black and white weekend starts right here and now!

1872

1872. It is when they started fabricating the very french casquette, caps. That's how the shop looked at the end of the 19th century:

And this a casquette, a very french one:

Nowadays, they are selling all kinds of headgear as well!

La fabrique de casquettes dans la Grand Rue. Ils en font et en vendent depuis 1872, voir photo du millieu. Mais aussi d'autres chapeaux, berets, etc.

Winstub

A winstub. Win: wine. A stub is a room, a chamber. You can grab a bite as well.
This particular is called Holy Sepulchre.

Winstub, le debit a vin. On peut souvent y manger aussi. Cet endroit s'appelle le Saint Sepulchre.

Bierstub

This is a bierstub, literally: beer chamber. It is where you can have your...not coffee, but beer, la biere. I am more of a wine drinker (actually, most of my wine goes into whatever I am cooking) than a beer drinker, but the locals say it is quite good. There are even 2 beer academies in town!

Une bierstub, c'est la ou on boit de la...biere. Les connaisseurs disent qu'elle est bonne. N'y connaissant rien, je m'incline devant leur sagesse...avec moderation, bien sur!

Soleil hivernal - Winter sun

Sunny but cold in the Grande Ile.

Journee belle mais froide dans la Grande Ile.

Red - rouge

Not sure what this is about...

Pas sur ce dont il s'agit...

Hiver doré - Golden winter

Now and then, rarely enough, there is a moment in time when the light is just... perfect. Then, I take out my (rather good) camera, and try to capture the moment. But, a camera is by far not as good as the human eye... Up to me to try to recreate what I actually saw.
No, that's not it... Trying to recreate a feeling, rather than a view. With this photo, I got it close enough.

De temps en temps, la lumiere est... parfaite. Mais mon appareil photo n'est pas aussi bon que mes yeux... Je tente donc de recreer ce que j'ai vu.
Correction... Tentant de recreer une impression, plutot qu'une vue. Parfois ca marche bien, comme ici.

Christkindlsmarik, the end/la fin/das Ende

Une derniere photo du marche de Noel, pour cette annee du moins.

A last photo of the christmas market. For this winter anyway.

Ein letztes Bild vom diesjaehrigen Christkindlsmarkt.

2016!!! First theme day of the year!

Today, 1st day of the month, theme day! Please below my favorite photo of the year. Well, one of them anyway... My BFF (Best Furry Friend), Teddy, living in Harrow, north London.

Click here to see how my fellow friends from the City Daily Photo group were inspired.