Hommage to Doisneau (3) : Man looking at the posters at the hall of feasts of Aulnoye-Aymeries.

A photo in the way of Robert Doisneau : a man opening a door or looking at posters at the ancient hall of feasts (Salle des fêtes) at the town-hall of Aulnoye-Aymeries (in the sixties?).

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The ancient town-hall of Aulnoye-Aymeries 3 (view from the back)

Another view of the ancient town-hall of Aulnoye-Aymeries. View from the back, in the front below you can see the top of the old feast hall.

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The ancient town-hall of Aulnoye-Aymeries...(2)

Here another view of the ancient town-hall of Aulnoye-Aymeries. It was built a new one in red bricks at the side of the square of the town-hall. This one was always the only town-hall in the eighties.

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The secret nights of Aulnoye...

Each year there is a rock festival in August in Aulnoye-Aymeries. It is called "Les Nuits Secrètes" or the secret night. You can see here a remain of the secret nights of August. It is a poster with the direction of the garden, it means "Le jardin" a place where is one little open air stage. The big stage is on the Place Matisse near the post and is gratis.

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The pinguin has cleaned his clothes...

This pinguin is on a wall of a cleaning shop in Fourmies (in the main shop street, street St Louis).

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A crossroad in Fourmies

Another crossroad in Fourmies, near the church St Pierre, with the trees in their autumn clothes.

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Conseil of Prud'hommes in Fourmies

I already wrote about this old town hall and of the Council of Prud'hommes which is a labour council defending the workers against their bosses.

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Last roses without leaves

At the end of autumn the leaves are now fallen, but roses are still there. When the thermometer goes under 0°C, they freeze all, also the rose buds. Perharps we shall have rose at Christmas. Last year there were still there in January. A long season, this rose bush is blooming more than the half of the year.

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Red berries for birds in the late autumn

All this berries for the birds at the beginning of the winter. So long there is no frozen time, birds don't eat this berries. But when the thermometer is going under O°C, and the ground is frozen, then you see all the birds coming here and eating the berries. Especially the blackbird is fond of them.

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At the end of autumn : the nessels are growing though the old bench

At the end of autumn, we had until this day no frozen time, so that the nettles are always growing like here through the old bench.

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Cat asleep

Cat of the neighbourhood asleep against the wall of my house. You know his name, it is Noisette or Hazelnut.

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Last roses of the autumn

Some of the last roses of the garden.

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New mountains appearing at the horizon...

Yesterday when driving to Fourmies, there were something strange; some new mountains were rising at the horizon in the East!!! And this during thirty kilometers. I think there were clouds which looked at the horizon like mountains, or a special optical effect due to the clear iced sky which made the Ardennes coming nearer to us, although we never saw until this day the Ardennes, from which we are the first slopes, from the Avesnois. Or the Vosges coming nearer though a reflection in the sky but there are three hundred kilometers far, so I think it is not possible. Although I saw already the Alpes from the plain of Alsacia (four hundred kilometers far from here) at a distance of two hundred kilometers. Or they were a great earthquake in Belgium (it is the direction of Belgium) which made the Ardennes becoming suddenly higher! But nobody heard of it at radio or TV!!! I do not know what it was. Probably clouds.

But all was looking to be nearer yesterday. For example the moon on the way to home was very big in its first quater and flat on the back of its crescent, so that I thought it was not the moon but an UFO (my husband said : "No, no, it is the moon!"), but I was so afraid of the aspect of the moon, that I didn't stop to make a photo. The big red crescent had also its back turned to the earth. We say it is a reversed moon.

However, on the outward drive, I made photos, and although it was a drive I made a few years ago without fear, I find so many things getting strange on this way, that I am often frightened. I stopped my car in Sains-du-Nord to make these photos of the "new mountains". Thus the blue mountain ridge, you see in the background don't exist usually. It was very strange because there where a place on the blue ridge where you can see some meadows and they were during thirty kilometers at the same place. The road is going at this place to the South-East.

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Measures on the bird flight (french à vol d'oiseau)

Sains-du-Nord to the Vosges (region of the Donon with 1000m high) : 290km

Vosges (Riquewihr) to Berner Oberland (I saw already very well the Alps from Riquewihr at the East side of Vosges) : 180km (Berner Oberland unto 4000m high)

Some new mountains...

Her, probably the clouds, were making like new mountains at the horizon, and this during thirty kilometers. I asked myself if it were clouds or a "fata morgana" of other mountains like the Ardennes, reflecting on the iced sky. I stopped my car at a place where they were houses to make the photos.

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Tree blooming in autumn and winter

The virbunum with flowers white like snow is blooming in the late autumn and at the beginning of the winter, like now (I made this photo in Pont-sur-Sambre).

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Daybreak in Pont-sur-Sambre

I photographed again the daybreak like two weeks ago. It is now very cold, and when the sky is not cloudy, the morning sky is an iced one.

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Clock tower in Fourmies

Clock tower of the Council of Prud'hommes in Fourmies (ancient townhall).

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Fourmies : last roses of autumn and ancient townhall

On this picture you can see the ancient townhall of Fourmies, which is nowadays the council of Prud'hommes a place where workers can find assistance and councils and advisers.

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Autumn over the 120 places in Aulnoye...

In Aulnoye there is a parking called the 120 places... This parking is always full at Tuesday, the day of market, first because we cannot park on the square where the market take place, second because there are more people on market days in this part of the town, as on other days of the week.

Here you cannot see the cars but only the yellow ans red colours of the trees behind the great hedge of the parking, I find it is a good horizontal composition.

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Sunset over Pont-sur-Sambre

Cloudy and beautiful sunset over Pont-sur-Sambre.

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Hommage to Doisneau (2) : Two boys on stairs in Fourmies.

As I went to Fourmies last week these two boys where sitting on the stair between the church St Pierre and the street with the "décor aquatique" shop (the shop from which I published a photo more than a year ago, is closed and becoming, I think, a new owner). I made the photo afterwards black and white and tried to make it in the style of Doisneau.

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National dish of Anor : the escavèche.

This is a speciality of Anor. This fish is a river fish called escavèche, and we can find it in the waters of the little town Anor, in the South-East of the Avesnois. The fish is prepared with a sauce which much spices and is sold in glases. It is a cold meat. Naturally the "frites" (the potatoes) are a speciality of the whole North Country and of Belgium. You can eat it with salad and tomatoes.

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Flower, clouds and light

Again a grey sky over Pont-sur-Sambre, but in the morning light the clearness reigns.

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Clouds and light

A play of clouds, sun, light, shadow with autumnal vegetation.

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Something blue (4) - The blue bridge (2)

Yesterday in the afternoon, the weather was getting no more misty, so that I became at the same place this picture.

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Something blue (3) : the blue bridge

Here you can see through the autumn trees the blue bridge or Pont de Quartes in the morning light and in the morning mist. In Pont-sur-Sambre, of course! I took the photo this morning.

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Something new...

Yesterday I was in Fourmies and I saw new lamps in old style in the two main shopping streets, rue St Louis and rue Cousin Corbier. This is a picture of the rue Cousin Corbier in Fourmies whith the new lamps. There is also a bakkery on the left for those who are hungry.

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Something blue (2)....

A twice time something blue... This bareer for pedestrians is in Anor in a place where almost no car goes so near to the pedestrian way, but one precaution is better than nothing. And in this corner of the town are almost all "street-pieces of furniture" blue. It is in the space François Mitterand.

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Autumn leaves with red and rain...

No blue to-day but a little red in the autumn leaves and rain. Photo taken in Pont-sur-Sambre.

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Something blue...

I looked as the photos I made and found a photo that I made at the day just after I bought my new camera. It is a white-blue house in Avesnes-sur-Helpe that was just on my road at this day.

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