Halloween....

There is no more feast of Halloween in France, because it is no french tradition. This feast did exist only during ten years, from the beginning of the nineties until two years ago.

The photo of Halloween I prepared ten days ago in Anor, where I photographed this vegetable.

Ifound it in an exibition of middle-age , where they did show how the people lived in the Middle-Age. And the vegetables they eat.

Duckie is a sport-girl

And what do you say about "duckie" of Pont-sur-Sambre. I think next time I must regulate my camera on the sport mode, because when photographing duckie I'm getting two duckies so quick she can spring. you can give her to eat if you want, but not too much, if you give more to eat than I do, she could lost her love of me. I wonder that the pixels of the screen are looking like a right fabric (fabric = toile, in french : la toile = the web) on the photo. And I must clean my screen, yeah!

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Pont-sur-Sambre Daily Photo on my computer...

Looking at Pont-sur-Sambre Daily Photo on my computer ( a note book) ....
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Cotonéaster in Pont-sur-Sambre

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Wild Rose berries

The cotoneasters (picture above) are very lovely plants which can make great carpets on the ground of gardens. They have little white-rosa flowers in the spring and some beautiful red berries in autumn and winter, so that they are a good decoration for winter gardens and are appreciated by birds ans are a good food for them in winter. It is not the same berries liks the one I published for a month with are the wild rose berries (also picture below). These ones are not a food for people (perhaps a poison, I don't know exactly, but I should not eat them, we learn as children we have not to eat wild red berries), but only for wild birds.

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Roses of October

In our mild North country (I was surprised but looking at Google Earth I saw, we are more in the North than Winnipeg or Vancouver in America), with a half oceanic weather warmed by the Gulf Stream, we can have flowers until the end of December, sometimes also at the beginning of January like last year and the first spring flowers are coming at the end of February so that we have only a month without flowers.

I made this photo in my small wild garden.

Click on the photo to see the roses bigger than nature. With the high definition you can see on the bigger photo also a wire of a spin-web (on the right below).

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Trees in autumn in Pont-sur-Sambre (3)

Before loosing their leaves, the trees of Pont are taking a their proud colours of autumn. It seems the trees are not red this year, but are taking some light yellow and light orange colours like here. The color of the leaves in autumn is according to the weather we had in summer and at the beginning of autumn, the fall of the leaves here happens from middle october to middle november for the last leaves. In gardens and towns there are also much evergreen trees but in the country-land and in forests the trees here are loosing their leaves, like oak trees and some others.

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The moon over Aulnoye-Aymeries (2)

A second time on the same square, the moon over the houses of the post square. I get a green colour for the lighten things and the lighning of the moon, so that I decides to make the photo in black and white (the original is green and black). The post square is called Place Matisse, it is the place where is the market and also the square where is built the great scene of the "Secret Nights" each year in August. It is a rock festival. During it the concerts are held in several places of the town, and begun about 17/18 hours so that they finish during the night, and the streets have lighning with stars like in the Christmas time, so that Aulnoye has two Christmases in the year. Next I shall photograph the Christmas lightnings. I hope they do not be all green like it was on this picture.

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The moon over Aulnoye-Aymeries

In these times it is night when I go to work in the morning and night in the evening, so that I do the photo of the day almost always in the night : Here is the moon which I photograph in Aulnoye-Aymeries. The photo I took from the post square with a zoom. From the moon you can see her eyes and her mouth, it seems she's looking to the side.

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Hortensia in the wildness (Pont-sur-Sambre)

This hortensia in in the wildness of a garden of a photographer of City Daily Photo. From whom? You have to guess. It is autumn and just before the first cold weather is coming, the hortensia have lost a little their proud colours. There are more and more hortensias in the Avesnois, it is in the North/North-East of France, but soon it shall looks like french Britanny where it is the flower you can find in the front gardens of houses.

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Trees in autumn in Pont-sur-Sambre (2)

A second view of gardens in autumn in Pont-sur-Sambre.

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Trees in autumn in Pont-sur-Sambre

This photo of trees which are beginning to take autumn coloursI made in Pont-sur-Sambre.
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Sunrise over Pont-sur-Sambre....

To get the green light of the sunrise on this morning I made a little video film with my cool pix, to get out of it some photos, because the color with the photo camera was too blue-violet and and the colour of the video was more according to the real green colour of the sky. We have here often a green sky just before the sun is coming over the horizon line, but it is not a aurora like one can see in Scandinavia or in Canada, but I think than more in the North here than the big Canadian towns, it is the wet oceanic weather which make that we can see no right aurora. Or they would be behind the clouds.

Here another photo of an Aurora (in Alaska) I found on Apod Search Result. I can compare the colour of the winter sky here in the morning with the green light beam of this picture.

Sky direction of the three photos here above : North East, East, North. 7:36 AM (summer time) october, 10th 2007.

Extension de l'aurore boréale jour après jour.

Auroras (Polarlichter, Aurores Boréales) over Germany, Swiss and Austria, in Thomas Sävert Photo Gallery.

The Auroras can be seen often until a latitude of 65° North. But one can see them a few days in the year until 50° North. Pont-sur-Sambre is on 50° North. And the town the most in the North of France, Dunkerque at 51° North. More in the South it is very seldom to see an aurora, but in Germany, Austria and Swiss they already saw some Auroras.

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Horses near Fourmies

I didn't made this photo, but my husband. You know I cannot make photos while driving, so I asked my husband to do some photos when we are crossing the beautiful landscapes of the Avesnois, because at many places you cannot stop the car without danger. So I shouted loud : the horses, the horses, so that he photographed the horses. It is a wonder this photo went well, because many times the landscape to photograph was no more to see when he made the photo. So that I get many photos which are not the one I was shouting for : Here! There! And they are many beautiful landscaped you can photograph only from this big roads.

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Photo made on the 14th October, 10:57 by my husband with my Cool Pix camera

Sunrise over Aulnoye-Aymeries

Aulnoye-Aymeries is the town next to Pont-sur-Sambre. Here you can see a sunset on the railway station. Photo taken on 16_10_2007, 7:52 AM. I you look at the photo in a mirror you can see in light letters the name of the town.

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Colourful papers...

Every week or twice a week we are getting many leaflets of advertisements of all big shops or supermarket which are in the sourroundings. I try to read them before they end in the poubelle. These ones are about all what you can make in autumn in the house, in the garden, etc...

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Autumn in Anor

One of the main street of Anor and church seen from the Centre François Mitterand, a leisure center with country hotel, rooms for gym and dance and rooms for the associations.

Photo of Sunday, October 14th 2007.

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A season picture

I met this good assortiment of autumn elements in the window of a pharmacy in Aulnoye-Aymeries. Photo taken on October 9th 2007

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Unexpected Horses...

On Sunday, October 7th, I was looking at my window, and suddenly I saw these horses on the street in front of my houses. Some children of the neighbourhood where looking at the horses and speaking to them.

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Street in Fourmies...

Ambiance of early autumn and "indian summer", in the town of Fourmies. The street you can see here goes from the Place Verte to the Main Street, the street St Louis. The trees you see here (grown in the town!) are chestnut trees from the side of the Green Square (Place Verte).

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The green place in Maubeuge

A view of the Green Square (La Place Verte) in Fourmies at the beginning of the autumn. It is the big place in front of the town hall, which you can see behind the trees. this place is also the market place and on Saturdays, a little time after the market you can see how paper sheet are decorating the ground. Afterwards the workers of the town come and clean it.

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Photo taken on Saturday, October 6th 2007 in Fourmies.

Like a tree in the town

There is a famous french song of Maxime Le Forestier whose title is "Comme un arbre dans la ville". It means "Lile a tree in the town...". This chestnut tree grew on the green place of Fourmies (the market place in front of the townhall) like a tree in the town and is in good health although getting autumn colours.

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I'm photographing you....

Here I'm photographing you with my new (three monthes old) Nikon Coolpix. It"s a right little camera, very good to photograph without to be seen. A good spy. You can see behind me a strret of Pont-sur-Sambre. So it's a Pont-sur-Sambre Daily Photo ! Take another mirror to read on it.

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Berries on a rainy day

On this berries you can see how the rain drops are falling along...

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Photo taken in Pont-sur-Sabre on October, 1st 2007

Roses of October on a rainy day...

Roses of October on a rainy day. You can see in the background the grey street...

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Street in Pont-sur-Sambre on a rainy day

Street in Pont-sur-Sambre. On a rainy day, photo made on the 1st of October 2007. With wild rose berries.

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Man going to buy on the market on a rainy day (in color).

The same picture like yesterday in colour, now you see how to get a picture in the style of Doisneau, with a colour camera.

Man going to buy on the market on a rainy day (Hommage to Doisneau 1).

This man is going down the stairs going at feet to buy the necessary food. He has a caddie in his hands from which you can see the wheels. I introduce here a serie of photos that I photograph in colours but doing it afterwards in black and white called Hommage to Doisneau, because I like this photographer of the mid of the 20th century.
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Snake in the autumn leaves

When the weather is rainy, you can see many snakes in the gardens of Pont-sur-Sambre.NB : I have a new camera Nikon Coolpix.