The square Matisse in Aulnoye-Aymeries

You can see here another side of the square Matisse of Aulnoye-Aymeries. On this side you can see the eldest houses of the square. They were built I think in the fifties or sixties, perharps earlier, for the workers of the factory Vallourec of Aulnoye ( a mettalurgy factory). Nowadays the houses became some different colours or front decoration, but at the beginning they were all like the red ones. Here this sort of street (the most time several streets) where all the houses are the same is called a cité or a coron.

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Gasoline-tanking in Aulnoye

Don't you have enough gasoline in you car. Here is the service station of the Place Matisse in Aulnoye, but you can have also car gasoline in other service-station in Aulnoye for example in the rue de Maubeuge or near other super-markets.

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Paving stones of the North Country

During a long time the North country of France had a bad reputation, the reputation to have a bad grey paving stones on the roads, hard to ride one, especially with bicycles. Now, the paving stones of the North Country is very sought, for example for the great bicycle race "Paris-Roubaix". Or for the "Tour de France" or for the "Grand-Prix de Fourmies". or the "Quatre Jours de Dunkerque", all great bicycle races across the North of France. Now, this paving stones are used also to decorate some parts of squares or of pavements.

Here this paving stones are used to decorate the square Matisse in Aulnoye-Aymeries.

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Reflection in a shop window

This is the square Matisse in Aulnoye-Aymeries (not far from the railway-station and the square where the great stage of the rock festival of the Secret Nights take place). This is a reflection of the square in a shop-window.

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Winter sunset in Aulnoye.

The sky of December is of a light blue. Under our latitude (51° North), the sky is not always of a right blue in December. We have now the shorter days of the year. The days are becoming shorter at the evening until Santa Lucia at the 13th december, and shorter in the morning until the begining of January. It is clear from 9 am until 4 pm. Here it is 16:38 (my camera says 17:38 summer hour!) and the sun is coming down. The photo was taken on the Place Matisse in Aulnoye-Aymeries also.

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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 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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