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June 26, 2022 Street Scenes

Clos des Trois Roses

“Chantons, voici le temps des roses !
Voici la saison des amours!
Mai nous ramène les beaux jours
Et mille autres charmantes choses
Qui ne peuvent durer toujours !
Chantons, voici le temps des roses !”

(Cl. Loron in Les temps des roses)
Liège (B)

January 19, 2022 Street Scenes

Does the music ever wake up here?

“In the still air the music lies unheard;
In the rough, marble beauty lies unseen;
To wake the music and the beauty needs
The master’s touch, the sculptor’s chisel keen.”

(H. Bonar in In the still air)
Rotterdam (NL)

July 25, 2021 Street scenes - buildings

Regarde!, une station de pompage au loin!

Jemeppe-sur-Meuse (B)

March 17, 2017 Street scenes - buildings

The turquoise shutters are still closed

"And the light crept up between the shutters
And you heard the sparrows in the gutters,
You had such a vision of the street
As the street hardly understands ..."

(T.S. Eliot no title from Preludes no. 3)
Charleroi-Jumet (B)

September 16, 2015 Street Scenes Post a Comment

At a desperate corner

"Till, his best step approaching,
We journey to the day, 
And tell each other how we sang 
To keep the dark away."

(E. Dickinson in I sing to use the waiting)
Liège-Jupille (B)

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Clos des Trois Roses

Does the music ever wake up here?

Regarde!, une station de pompage au loin!

The turquoise shutters are still closed

At a desperate corner