shops - the fleeting world; bubbles in a stream

November 27, 2022 Street scenes - buildings

Today we do our shopping next to “Ateliers Gamain”

“But you said you were
Just shopping, not buying anything
All you said you were doing was
Just shopping, not buying anything”

(The Dramatics in Just Shopping)
Liège (B)

July 11, 2022 Street scenes - buildings

Where once the grocer waited for his customers

“An old man with a straw in his mouth
sat all day long before the village grocery store;
he liked to watch the funny things a going, going, going by”

(Ch. Ives in The see’r)
Liège (B)

March 30, 2022 Street Scenes

When the stars fade!

“one by one
the stars come into view –
frigid cold!”

(Haiku by Taigi)
Genk (B)

January 25, 2022 Landscapes

Architectural collateral damage

“We shall walk in velvet shoes:
Wherever we go
Silence will fall like dews
On white silence below.
We shall walk in the snow.”

(E. Wylie in Velvet shoes)
Awans-Hognoul (B)

July 3, 2021 Street scenes - buildings

Mr. Bricolage and fading industrial history

“People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed”

(Bob Dylan in Things have changed)
Tamines (B)

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Today we do our shopping next to “Ateliers Gamain”

Where once the grocer waited for his customers

When the stars fade!

Architectural collateral damage

Mr. Bricolage and fading industrial history