French Friday: Le Panthéon

le 27 juillet 2018 (208/365)

« C'est pour ces morts, dont l'ombre est ici bien venue, que le haut Panthéon élève dans la nue, au-dessus de Paris, la ville aux mille tours, la reine de nos Tyrs et de nos Babylones, cette couronne de colonnes que le soleil levant redore tous les jours! » - Victor Hugo, Les Chants du crépuscule (1835)

Le Panthéon est un monument de style néo-classique au cœur du Quartier latin, sur la montagne Sainte-Geneviève. L'architecture reprend la façade du Panthéon de Rome, construit au 1er siècle av. J.-C. Plusieurs personnages historiques, littéraires, scientistes, et artistes sont inhumés au Panthéon y compris Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Louis Braille, Sadi Carnot, Émile Zola, Jean Jaurès, Jean Moulin, Jean Monnet, Pierre et Marie Curie, André Malraux, et Alexandre Dumas. Le Panthéon est aussi l'endroit de le célèbre Pendule du Foucault qui met en evidence la rotation de la Terre.

Week 30 - Creative: Circles

July 26, 2018 (207/365) • Week 30 - Creative: Circles #dogwoodweek30, #dogwood52, #dogwood2018

"Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life." - Eric Kandel

[The circle is a universal symbol with extensive meaning; it represents the notions of totality.]

The Long and Winding Road

July 25, 2018 (206/365)

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view." - Edward Abbey

Hollyhocks

July 24, 2018 (205/365) “Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as people and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the hollyhock.” - Henry Ward Beecher 

Imagination & Reflection

July 23, 2018 (204/365)

"A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is." - Thierry Mugler

Thirteen

July 22, 2018 (203/365) • Our 13th Anniversary

"If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd be picking roses for a lifetime." - Swedish Proverb