"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

Quote - Albert Camus

It's a photo from last year, but I do hope we will have another beautiful autumn!

Niché au pied du versant sud du Grand Luberon, ce beau village aux étroites ruelles caladées un art de vivre à la provençale.

Galeries d'Art, boutiques de décoration et terrasses de cafés ensoleillées ajoutent à son charme.

Il vit cependant tout au long de l'année au rhythme des nombreuses manifestations culturelles qui y sont organisées.

Le village célèbre d'ailleurs avec fierté le souvenir des deux écrivains qui y ont habité, Albert Camus (1913-1960) et Henri Bosco (1888-1976) enterrés à Lourmarin.

Il propose une visite guidée et des promenades litttéraires "Sur le pas d'Albert Camus" et "Sur les traces d'Henri Bosco".

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Eingebettet in die südlichen Ausläufer des Grand Luberon,

am Durchgang vom Kleinen zum Großen Luberon, liegt das Dorf Lourmarin.

Als eines der 'Plus beaux villages de France' (Schönste Dörfer Frankreichs) klassifiziert, hat Lourmarin -trotz überfüllter Plätze im Sommer- seine provenzalische Lebensart und seinen Charme bewahrt.

Man findet interessamte Brunnen und Renaissancefassaden im Ort.

Die hübschen ansteigenden gepflasterten Gässchen mit ihren liebevoll dekorierten Geschäften, Kunstgalerien und sonnenbeschienen Café-Terassen siond besonders an den Markttagen (Jour de Marché) sehenswert.

All die verführerischen Düfte und Produkte aus der Provence

mit ihren Farben und dem bunten Gewimmel faszinieren mich

immer wieder aufs Neue.

Als ich dort war (im Mai) wurden die ersten süßen Aprikosen und Erdbeeren angeboten.

Das Dorf zelebriert mit Stolz das Andenken an die die zwei Schriftsteller, die dort lebten, Albert Camus (1913-1960) und Henri Bosco (1888-1976) begraben in Lourmarin .

Das Renaissance-Schloß von Lourmarin bietet das ganze Jahr über zahlreiche Verasnstaltungen an.Es liegt in einem außerordentlichen Rahmen dem Dorf gegenüber

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Die Landschaft des Luberon gehört zu den eindruckvollsten der Provence und wurde von der UNESCO zu einem Biosphärenreservat („Réserve de la Biosphère“) erklärt. Zerklüftete Felsen, wilde Schluchten, karge Gipfel, aber auch üppige Natur wie Pinienwälder, Lavendel- und Weinfelder prägen das Landschaftsbild des Luberon. Malerische Dörfer haben sich an den Felshängen angesiedelt und drängen sich an den Berg.

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december colours at the cemetery.

there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

oh ..you were so fast commenting , duringthe time i searched for the citate :-)!

thanks a lot !

wish you all a wonderful thursday!

I am at the dentist again (on thursday morning) ...will ask if i can pay him with a copy of some of my fotos for this praxis rooms.

see you later...

update; yes, the dentist took my map with foto copies and gave it to his interior designer and he called me for further date ! I gave him my flickr address to scroll thru the fotostream and come back when the time is right for decorating the new praxis next year!

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"No freedom for a person until he overcomes his fear of death. But not by suicide, he must not give up himself in overcoming it."

Albert Camus, The Plague - Diary, 1943

- current in this time, isn't it?

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♫ www.youtube.com/watch?v=s36eQwgPNSE

- Funkytown, Lipps ♫

With all these happening around the world, and near us, i have to share this <3

"To claim one day to live as free people, that is, as people who refuse to exercise as well as suffer horror"

- Albert Camus

(in free translation)

«Να αξιωθούμε μια μέρα να ζήσουμε σαν ελεύθεροι άνθρωποι, δηλαδή σαν άνθρωποι που αρνιούνται να ασκήσουν καθώς και να υποστούν τη φρίκη»

- Αλμπέρ Καμύ

For my beautiful friend Unni who keeps Summer in her heart <3

“Au milieu de l'hiver, j'apprenais enfin qu'il y avait en moi un été invincible.”

― Albert Camus

"In the midst of winter, I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LZAEMUg2eQ

LOVE IN OUR HEARTS (NEW SUMMER TUNE) – JIMMY BRINE

SUMMER IN MY HEART FOR YOU

It was raining in my heart last night

I was looking for the sun

but wherever it was it was out of sight

and I felt that Summer had gone

then came a breath of fresh air in the words you wrote

and I saw the rain had stopped

You told me to keep the Summer in our hearts

you were right and I was not

I will still look forward to Autumn though

because I love to run through the leaves

to hear their rustle and to feel alive

with the coolness of the Autumn breeze

Every season has it's smell

every minute can do too

If you don't believe me then try this thing

and it will bring a smile to you

stand outside on a Summer's day

sniff the air; note the way it feels

then in the evening do the same again

do you see what I'm talking about now

this “secret” is my gift to you

I discovered it as a child

I can hear the tide turn as well you know

and find harmony in the wild

it's no secret; I dance to my own tune

I am like Poppy Pan,

Peter's long lost little sister

I've been here since the world began

I may never grow old

not in the way we know

to be the fate of everything

but I will always keep Summer in my heart for you

throughout the Winter and ensuing Spring

when the primroses bloom

and the wild bells grow

and the woods are full of blue

I will look to the sky

have the Spring in my step

and the Summer in my heart for you.

- AP – Copyright remains with the author

'copyright image please do not reproduce without permission'

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“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

Quote ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

I need a break.....

but I'll be back... :-))

Wishing you all a very happy summertime, spending a lovely time with friends and family. Enjoy !!!

And a Happy Wall Wednesday !!!

in Explore

Chairs, Benches and Seats

This is yet another new series of photographs this time about Chairs and Benches with a few other seating items thrown in.

They can be Regal, Practical, Ultra Design items, Art Installations, used for Potty Training. They can even be vehicles of Execution. They hold immense power and none at all. From the densest populated cities, to the most remote parts of the world. Usually sturdy; reliable; honest; comfortable; often filled with people. People talking, sleeping, with their phones, eating, climbing to reach other items, feeding birds, making love and every scenario one can think of.

The imagination can run riot over the most important conversations that have taken place on them, what they could tell you if they could, what they would tell you if they wanted too. As usual I hope you enjoy what I have posted and this is the next in the series…….

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Albert Camus

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

John Milton

Any fool can make a rule

And any fool will mind it.

Thoreau

No-one is free when others are opressed.

Anon

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️❤️❤️

*Working Towards a Better World

Stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone

Because often times,

the one who flies solo

has the strongest wings.

- Andy Biersack

Real freedom is not what we acquire, but what we think. -

Author unknown

The only way to deal with an unfree world,

is to become so absolutely free,

that your very existence is an act of rebellion. - Albert Camus

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo❤️

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

― Albert Camus

With the coffee safely on my desk, I switch on my computer, draw back the blinds to be greeted by this wonderful view of my back garden/yard. Along my boundary fence, the red leaves of the Virginia creeper are striking this year

I must remind myself how lucky I am

""Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

Albert Camus

“Who taught you all this, doctor?"

The reply came promptly:

"Suffering.”

Albert Camus

Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72, No. 1 · Vladimir Horowitz · Frédéric Chopin

JUSTICE

While I still have a shadow - after Jacques Henri Lartigue - Pendant que j'ai encore une ombre - Saint Moritz (1980)

~Story People~

Explore # 322...Thanks :D

I'm still living in a summery world..what can I say :D This is a summer one..but it's one of my favorites. Happy Tuesday!!

Continuing with my Positive Flags of the Nations

project with a tribute democracy.

A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.

Theodore Roosevelt

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.

Mohandas Gandhi

Democracy is not the law of the majority but protection of the minority.

Albert Camus

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

View On Black

"Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower." Albert Camus

Upon great reflection, I wonder?

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Albert Camus

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants--everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor--anywhere in the world.

Franklin Roosevelt

Liberties aren't given, they are taken.

Aldous Huxley

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

*Working Towards a Better World

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. -

George Bernard Shaw

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. - Barack Obama

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -

Mahatma Gandhi

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. - Margaret Mead

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. - John Lennon

Peace is the only battle worth waging. - Albert Camus

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo💜💜

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Mikhail Glinka - The Lark - Evgeny Kissin

L'inhumaine beauté de ce matin d'avril.

Bicycles

Although I don’t ride a bike, well not at least for 40 odd years, there is something satisfying about a bike. It’s solid, reliable (mainly), an art form, it has a place in our society, an environmental champion, a pleasure and a serious competitor.

There aren’t many things in life that fulfil those criteria, there will always be those detractors but for me the bike is a hero.

More postings in this series to follow ………..

Confronterend boek van Albert Camus over een kuststad ( Oran) in de greep van een dodelijke ziekte

uitgave: de Bezige Bij

Omslag:Pankra

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Karl Marx

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

Peter Marshall

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

Paulo Coelho, “Eleven Minutes”

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Martin Luther King Jr.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Søren Kierkegaard

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Albert Camus

With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, and stay safe! ❤️❤️❤️

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower” – Albert Camus

Winkworth Arboretum, near Hascombe in Surrey, is always a lovely place to visit – but in autumn it’s absolutely spectacular.

Its creator, Dr Wilfrid Fox, wanted to ‘use plants to paint a picture’. So he spent more than 20 years doing just that, are today we’re all the beneficiaries of his vision.

Winkworth hosts more than 1,000 species of tree and shrub, and covers some 95 acres (38 hectares). Wanting to preserve his work for future generations, Dr Fox, a leading dermatologist, donated his arboretum to the National Trust in 1952, ten years before he died.

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower” – Albert Camus

The display of maples at Winkworth Arboretum is spectacular at this time of year. The arboretum, owned by the National Trust, hosts more than 1,000 species of tree and shrub, and is to be found near Hascombe in Surrey.

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”

― Albert Camus

Tropical Storm Cindy's clouds feeding in behind mural by Berlin's MTO at Gasa Gasa, Freret St., New Orleans, Louisiana

Peace is the only battle worth waging.”

Albert Camus

Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an ‘is,’ it is a ‘becoming.

Haile Selassie

Be selective in your battles. Sometimes peace is better than being right.

Anon

Of all our dreams today, there is none more important—or so hard to realize—than that of peace in the world.

Lester B. Pearson

Peace is not the highest goal in life. It is the most fundamental requirement.

Sadhguru

World peace can be achieved when, in each person, the power of love replaces the love of power.

Sri Chinmoy

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.

Congressman, John Lewis

Peace brings with it so many positive emotions that it is worth aiming for in all circumstances.

Estella Eliot

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️❤️❤️

Albert Camus, - "Le mythe de Sisyphe"

“I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.”

Albert Camus

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjmCtNXRMDU

GOING HOME – SOPHIE ZELMANI

I AM

I am born free

in a field with wild flowers in my hair

the sounds of nature first to touch my ears

the softness and warmth of the earth beneath me

first sight the bluest sky filled my eyes

and coloured them for all my life

the sun shone bright and hot that day

bathed my hair and always stayed

corn-coloured tresses and cornflower blue eyes

wild and messy with no earthly ties

my Dad delivered me you see

the only ones there were my Mum and me

small bunnies in the fields

small birds on the wing

the joy of my life

to them was everything

later I would run barefoot and free

laughing pure and clear

climbing all the trees

but then their lives both ended suddenly

and it seemed that time stood still

and everything went dark for me

and darker still when I fell ill

it's hard to understand the complexities of life

for some it's a walk in the park

for others endless grief and strife

with no flickering flame to light the dark

but all I can say about the mysteries that surround me

is that even through the darkest; wildest storms

it's still possible to find the light

it's still possible to break free

the heavy shroud I wore

too big for my young shoulders

slipped and fell and with it tore

the melancholy mantel

some days are still seeped in sad memories

but mostly I'm ok

I hope you'll better understand me

and why I disappear and hide some days

I need that time of quiet reflection

I need to reconnect

with nature and all it's miracles

that calm my mind and balm my soul

the healing nature of it's powers

that brings me back so bright and bold.

- AP - Copyright © remains with and is the intellectual property of the author

Copyright © protected image please do not reproduce without permission

First day as Nurse Poppy is that my patient tries my patience, ha ha!! ; 0)) Otherwise all is well : 0)

We are both sat here revising our lists! Please do not be alarmed! It is a work in progress!! It gives us a shared interest and the only way I could keep him still for more than 5 minutes!! ; 0))

when every leaf is a flower. ― Albert Camus

You are most welcome to visit my blog: Charisma. ♥

Today's style:

Head: Lelutka EvoX Avalon 3.1

Body: Maitreya Lara X

Skin: Amara Beauty

Eyes: Avi-Glam

Hair: Doux - Seulgi

Hairbase: Angel Eyes

Shape: Mine - Laurna/Lara X

Enhancements:

Cazimi, Izzie's, addon+, OYI, Lucci, Warpaint

Apparel:

Outfit: Versois et Mailloux - Sur la Ville Set - Briques

Shoes: Versois et Mailloux - Sur la Ville Heels - Lagoon

Undies: PurpleMoon - The Pantiliner (HUD with 48 colors)

Jewelry:

Earrings: Dark Mouse - Delicate Hoop with Accent Jewels

Bracelet: Cae - Engraved Bracelet - Sister - Gold

Bracelet: Luova - Charm Bracelet - Gold

Gemstone Ring 1: Kunglers - Tracey Ring

Gemstone Ring 2: Orsini Jewel Care - Christina Ring - Gold

Poses:

Lune - Kendra & Ella Sets

Good old Albert.

But first? Spring. Welcome to spring. Also? Springneressness at sad bokeh friday!

Larg0rated

...lorsqu’une fois, on n’a plus été seule, on ne l’est plus jamais

Maria Casarès

Love Letters | Maria Casares & Albert Camus, 1944-1959

Stéphan Elmas - Piano Concerto No.1 in G-minor (1882)

Théâtre de l'Absurde

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Albert Camus

Bitter Rain · Malvina Reynolds

JUSTICE

"Second Spring"

– Albert Camus

New buddeh icon.

Ne marche pas devant moi, je ne suivrai peut-être pas.

Ne marche pas derrière moi, je ne te guiderai peut-être pas.

Marche juste à côté de moi et sois mon ami.

Albert Camus

Non camminare davanti a me, forse non ti seguirò.

Non camminare dietro a me, forse non ti guiderò.

Camminami a fianco e saremo amici.

Albert Camus

Vittorio e Lucio (il cane!) due carissimi Amici.

The bird bath and base of the "water wiggler" in autumn.

“Time drips, heavy, slow…”

I love this time of year. Not only do I love the cooler and rainy weather but I love the how the clouds act as natural soft boxes for my pictures :). For me Fall and Winter are the perfect seasons for pictures in natural lighting.

I've been in love with the sunsets lately they seem a lot more warmer and have a certain glow about them that just looks amazing!

Well Happy Thursday friends!