Chartreuse Mountains
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The Chartreuse Saint-Sauveur is an exceptional place , a masterpiece of flamboyant Gothic architecture from the 15th century. The building houses rooms of unsuspected richness, including two cloisters, including one of the largest in France.
Built at the gates of Villefranche de Rouergue from 1452 thanks to the testamentary legacy of a wealthy draper merchant from Villefranche, Vézian Valette, the monastery of the Chartreuse St Sauveur allows you to understand how the monks lived within a chartreuse and to admire this precious heritage: the small cloister, a masterpiece of flamboyant Gothic art, the chapel and its magnificent historiated stalls, the refectory, the large cloister against which the hermitages once stood and which surrounds the cemetery and the secrets of the community...
A bit of fantasy with a blown out sky changed into a nightscene and the photo darkened for this image
New little leaves on my Barberry are a source of energy and excitement for me as they announce the arrival of spring.
"Anyone can love a rose,
But it takes a lot to love a leaf.
It's ordinary to love the beautiful,
But it's beautiful to love the ordinary." ~ M.J. Korvan
Cascade de nuages froids sur les falaises totalement occultées du massif de la Chartreuse Est. La lumière est loin d'être idéale: le ciel est totalement gris, et ce coté de la vallée dans l'ombre...
Cascade of cold clouds on the totally hidden cliffs of the Chartreuse East. The light is far from ideal: the sky is totally gray, and this side of the valley in the shade ...
I love the color and patterns of two of the trees in our yard. According to Wikipedia, the word 'chartreuse' was named after the color of a French liqueur that was made by the Carthrusian monks at the Grande Chartreuse monastery, located in the Chartreuse Mountains in 1764.
loved the colors and the potted plants...
and just about now, choc-ko sounds pretty good... :-)
Manila, Philippines
At the beach. Guaratuba, PR Brazil
The term chartreuse was first used to refer to this color (the color halfway between green and yellow) when the X11 web colors were invented in the mid-1990s. Before that, this color was called yellow-green.
Near Le Touvet, north of Grenoble, France. The Chartreuse massif is composed of layers of marl (calcareous mudstone) and limestone that were laid down under the Tethys Ocean during the Cretaceous period (about 145-65 million years ago). These rocks were subsequently compressed, folded and uplifted during the Alpine Orogeny, or mountain-building event (from 65 million years ago and still ongoing). The Alpine Orogeny was caused by the collision of the Eurasian and the African plates.