Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France .
Mediterranean Sea .
43°42'0''N-7°15'0''E

dimanche 27 décembre 2020

Last Sunday


 Next week , same hour , will be an other year .

Hope and/or fear  both stand at the end of the walk..

jeudi 24 décembre 2020

A Christmas gift

Adolphe Fioupou
Vue de Cannes 

Ernest Buttura(1841-1920)
Littoral de Provence - 1864

Ernest Buttura
Le fort de l'Ile Sainte Marguerite

 

Here's my gift for you for Christmas:

Three lovely views of my small part of the world , 

in times when life was surely hard but also simple and quiet.

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Take a good care of you and your family, 

enjoy every moment !

Wishing you all a 

MERRY and HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

*****

mardi 15 décembre 2020

Trophies


  More than one hundred years ago , some french sailors gathered around german trophies .

Those guys , even described as "sailors", were  actually  belonging to naval infantry , or french marine corps , an infantry force that specialized  in the support of naval and army operations on land.