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Lens Artists #58…old, new, borrowed, and blue

Patti, you’ve set us quite a challenge here, which I’m hoping to meet with one photo and a poem (the latter’s formatting depending on my ability to deal with WP’s new editor.)

 This Colmar building is old,
the shutters certainly blue,
the cars (well, you guess),
all borrowed for you! 

for Lens Artists Challenge #58

Thursday Doors…plus de portes de Colmar

After an excellent lunch, it’s always good to take a walk.  Because we’re here during the week, there are slightly less tourists than usual, so let’s be thankful for that.  But you still have to be careful not to suddenly stop when you see just the right door (or a great patisserie.)  You might get rear-ended.

Old churches often have great doors and these first two prove that rule.

Lunch in Colmar

Monday on the blog we were walking in France, tiring work, so let’s hop over to Colmar for a bit of lunch.  We ate at the same restaurant as the prior year, sitting outside by the river (Little Venice).  If you’d like to see a number of photos of places we saw and read a bit about them, click here (not my photos.)  It was hot, so we opted for salad and a glass of wine, while watching flat-bottomed boats filled with tourists pole by and swans glide past.

Colmar was part of France, then Germany, back to France, again to Germany, and finally ended up on the eastern edge of France.  Consequently, the architecture and food represent both cultures.  We opted for a lighter, more French lunch this visit.

This delicious, refreshing, filling, and beautifully presented salad had foie gras (front left), prosciutto (middle left), smoked salmon (hiding on the right), lots of beautifully cool, thinly-sliced veggies, and was topped with a crisp breadstick.  It was just what I needed before hitting the streets for photos of doors and other delights.  I would order it again in an instant!

Thursday doors…French doors with flowers

There are flowers everywhere in Colmar.  Some of them are even found around doors, the perfect combination.  Right now, with winter hanging on and not much color to be found, it’s especially fun to browse through photos of summer and to remember strolling through the colorful streets of one of Europe’s most attractive cities.  I can also take pleasure in the thought that today is the last day of February and that perhaps spring is just around the corner.

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Thursday doors…back to Colmar

I was dreaming of France, so I “paged” through my files from Colmar and picked out three doors to share today. It’s been rather colds and icy outside and busy at work, so they were pleasant dreams. I hope they make your day more pleasant as well.

I’ve been rather busy the last two days with work, so my apologies for posts I’ve missed.  Pre-Valentine’s Day at a patisserie is rather busy as you can well imagine.  I hope you have a wonderful day, whether or not you do anything special.  Just remember those you love today and tell them that you do!  Any day is just the right time for that.

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Thursday Doors…Colmar arches

I decided to go with an arches theme this week, but not the golden arches of McDo (long o sound) as it’s sometimes called in Europe.  These doors are from Colmar, the city I’ve featured before, that has vacillated between being part of French and part of Germany, but while always keeping not only a colorful past but colorful buildings and doors.  I also had a bit of fun playing with editing on the framing.  Welcome to December!  For more of this week’s Thursday Doors entries, click here.

 

 

(Little) Venice

Colmar, France is noted for being picturesque and a part of that comes from the narrow boats plying their way up and down the section of the river Lauch that cuts through the colorful, half-timbered houses and businesses. After lunch under the awnings in the restaurant on the right, we, like so many others, took photos from the Saint-Pierre Bridge. We did not, however, take a boat ride.  All our exploration was done on foot.

Thursday Doors…Colmar 2

Today let’s head back to the Alsace part of France, to Colmar in particular.  Half-timbered buildings and marvelous colors are what the old part of the city is known for and there are blocks and blocks of these beauties.  From this distance, you can’t see the door as well, but you can enjoy the colors.

Norm hosts Thursday Doors, one of the most enjoyable challenges out there.  Stop by or join in.

Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge 2016, week 34…French oddballs

Cee’s taken a well-deserved break for a few weeks, so the Oddball Photo Challenge will run for more than one week.  In honor of that, I have more than one oddball.  🙂  However, all of them come from my July trip to France.  Enjoy!

This is something I certainly didn’t expect to see on the shelves of the local Colruyt store where my s-i-l shops!

A decoration from “our” restaurant in Plombières-les-Bains, a sheepish Napoleon perhaps?