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Alsace with these wonderful colors!!
If you come in France, don't forget to visit
Alsace it' s a wonderful place
dans une boutique de Ribeauvillé
Rag'n'Bone Man - Nothing Breaks Like a Heart youtu.be/y7k6RAzPAiM
Le cœur se trouve souvent dans la décoration alsacienne :
dans les fenêtres, volets, portes, armoires, nappes, murs, poutres, façades des vieilles bâtisses, meubles en général ainsi que de façon gourmande en pain d'épice, en biscuits, en moules en terre cuite, etc....
Autrefois en Alsace, le cœur était un symbole qui permettait de repousser les mauvais présages et les mauvais esprits. On raconte aussi que lorsqu’une famille alsacienne avait une fille à marier, elle le faisait savoir en découpant un cœur sur les volets.
Aujourd’hui, le cœur symbolise toujours le bonheur, l’amour et tout simplement la vie. Ou plus trivialement, la possibilité de finir en beauté une décoration.
HAPPY WINDOW WEDNESDAY(S) !
Some more fine windows in one of the many beautiful, colorful, well-preserved Alsace houses. Houses like this are not "museums." They are homes and/or sometimes shops.
I labeled this photo "upstairs" because of a semantic confusion. In the USA (my homeland), the ground floor of a building is called the first floor. Here, the ground floor is the ground floor. The first upstairs floor--shown here--is called the first floor. Ah me.
NB - I am always surprised how some photos (e.g. this one) taken with my ancient iPhone 4S, can be cropped and edited into such pretty pictures. Photo quality likely benefited from the direction of the sunlight. As the shadows on the building indicate, it was from the left side and high. This produced nice, defining shadows, but no extreme highlights or deep shadows. Easier work for the tiny sensor in my iPhone 4S.
Location: Village of Blotzheim, Alsace FR, close to Basel CH.
In my album: Dan's Windows.
Colmar (French: Colmar, pronounced [kɔlmaʁ]; Alsatian: Colmer [ˈkolməʁ]; German during 1871–1918 and 1940–1945: Kolmar) is a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France. The third-largest commune in Alsace (after Strasbourg and Mulhouse), it is the seat of the prefecture of the Haut-Rhin department and of the subprefecture of the Colmar-Ribeauvillé arrondissement. The city was conquered by France under King Louis XIV in 1673 and officially ceded by the 1679 Treaties of Nijmegen. In 1854 a cholera epidemic killed many in the city. With the rest of Alsace, Colmar was annexed by the newly formed German Empire in 1871 as a result of the Franco-Prussian War and incorporated into the Alsace-Lorraine province. It returned to France after World War I according to the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1940, and then reverted to French control after the battle of the "Colmar Pocket" in 1945. Colmar has been continuously governed by conservative parties since 1947, the Popular Republican Movement (1947–1977), the Union for French Democracy (1977–1995) and the Union for a Popular Movement (since 1995), and has had only three mayors during that time. The Colmar Treasure, a hoard of precious objects hidden by Jews during the Black Death, was discovered here in 1863.
PP work in Luminar Neo Filters.