Weekend Reflections..... Dog sunbathing

and enjoying the warm sun on her snout. You'd better keep away from her master's car though.

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Petit chien de garde profitant du soleil printanier en Californie.

The light at the end of the tunnel

La lumière au bout du tunnel, hier soir.

VOTEZ L'ANE

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Les pompons du dimanche

Touching the red pompon of a sailor's béret is supposed to bring you luck. The young girl in the photo had five pompons to touch and five sailors to talk to during the Fête de Saint-Louis in Sète last year.
I hope she bought a lottery ticket and hit the jackpot.

The title of this post means "Sunday pompoms." Pompon in French sounds like pont pont (pont is the French word for bridge). 
On Sundays, Louis la Vache's blogger friends are supposed to post the photo of a bridge. Well, there is a big bridge right behind the black billboard.

Je poursuis mon évocation de la fête de Saint-Louis avec cette autre photo de  marins de la Marine Nationale (je pense qu'ils sont les seuls à avoir un béret à pompon rouge) bien occupés pendant une escale de leur gros navire de retour de mission.

Pont sur le Lez, novembre 2011

Weekend Reflections.... An artist's reflection

Reflection of a reflecting artist on a street in Sète, last August... Painter Ginette Ayral might have been wondering whether the young sailor on the right-hand side of the photo was really willing to take us on a boat ride (double entendre, in French).

To be followed....... 

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Mon amie Ginette Ayral, à l'origine de Freeart, est bien pensive sur la photo prise en août dernier. Elle devait se demander si le jeune marin à droite voulait vraiment nous emmener en bateau. 

La suite à demain, si vous le voulez bien...

Skywatch Friday...... Pompignane "à la" Independence Day

A few days ago, this is what the sky looked like from my balcony.  The photo has not been edited at all. The round cloud looked like a UFO, didn' it?

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Photo prise, il y a quelques jours, du coucher de soleil à la Pompignane. Pas du tout modifiée. Le soleil et les nuages nous la jouaient ce soir-là à la "Independence Day". Peut-être que la Pompignane attendait son président sauveur, mais le nuage ovni a fini par se désintégrer tout seul.

Heureusement pour nous, car aucun de nos candidats ne ressemble à Bill Pullman. Y en avait bien un qui aurait pu faire illusion mais il est bien rentré dans le rang.

Monday, Monday

Sunny winter and happy Monday in Montpellier !

Djeen Doojaaadeen has received the 2012 Golden Globe Award for his performance in The Artist. I wrote his name the way I did because that is what I heard a few days ago when an American TV host whose name I have not on my mind right now  mentioned the French actor's nomination. Dujardin got "his revenge" when he started speaking English at the ceremony  in a French accent that made his English ten times as bad as the American TV host's French.

Dujardin and his wife Alexandra Lamy became both famous about ten years ago when they played the two major characters, Chouchou and Loulou, in a funny TV series, Un Gars Une fille (A boy and a girl).
Since then Jean Dujardin has performed in at least 30 films and is now considered one of the best French actors, if not the best. Dujardin and Lamy live in Anduze, about 30 miles from Montpellier. I think they perfectly illustrate <<the French couple>> as we imagine it, at its best. I have read that some American Hollywood people already call them "the French Brangelina." I think they are just the opposite of Pitt and Jolie.

I was particularly happy when I heard that the French actor had won the award for his performance in a silent movie, in black & white.

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/25/142504629/in-glorious-black-and-white-an-artist-falls-silent

J'avais envie de me réjouir des récompenses attribuées à un film français et à un acteur français pour son rôle  dans un film muet et en N&B. C'est tout. That's all, Folks!





Au fait, la photo des roseaux, je l'ai prise le Jour de l'An, à Lattes autour de l'étang du Méjean que certaines cigognes ne quittent plus l'hiver. J'ai trouvé que les couleurs de la nature étaient très belles, presque aussi belles que l'absence de couleurs rutilantes dans The Artist. 


Merci à vous pour vos messages si gentils et encourageants. Je vous souhaite une très bonne année 2012 et je vais tâcher d'être plus présente....

Skywatch Friday..... Black clouds hovering over Montpellier

At sunset today, photo taken from my balcony.... The wind started blowing. It was a wind that could have blown off the horns of all the bulls in Camargue. Fortunately enough, we hardly had any rain and the wind seems to have abated now (almost midnight).

Skywatch Friday blogs..... here.

Les nuages gris et noirs menaçants entouraient toute la ville quand j'ai pris cette photo en fin d'après-midi. Dans quelques jours,  les jours vont rallonger, ouf!

ABC Wednesday.... V is for Villeneuvette

Villeneuvette is one of the most beautiful villages in Hérault, in my opinion. I like the letter V, which is the initial letter of such wonderful words as victory, venus, valentine, etc....

I could have shown vines and vineyards, and other beautiful villages such as Vogüé in Ardèche, among others.
I wish I could move to a village like Villeneuvette. I like small towns or villages much better than cities (villes).

To see more blogs participating in ABC Wednesday Round 9, which is drawing to a close now, please click here.

Vie à la ville ou vie à la campagne, sans hésiter je dirais "vie dans un tout petit village comme Villeneuvette" que ses habitants protègent jalousement des dégradations, du bruit et de la laideur du béton à tout prix. Je suis plutôt rat des champs que rat des villes. :-) Et vous ?

Merci Madame Nesbitt !

Médiathèque Emile Zola

The "médiathèque Emile Zola" is the largest public library in Montpellier, and my favorite place too. It will be open on Sunday afternoons until next April (or May?). It was about 6PM when I took this photo last night.