An occasional Photo Blog
37 Days – Holiday project.
The village flags have now all been removed and no doubt carefully folded and stored away for next year. I often think that after the August 1st festivities the light takes on an almost Autumnal hue. Today was no exception, another hot sunny day and despite shorts and t-shirt, a definite hint of Autumn light this evening.
37 Days – Holiday project.
1st August, Swiss National Day. A day off for most, including me:-). A day for politicians to reflect. A day for blowing alp horns, flying flags, enjoying barbecues and letting off fireworks.
I decided against photographing the BBQ or the smoky firework night scenes, but chose instead decorative flags hanging proudly from the village street lamps.
37 Days – Holiday project.
Nothing like a bit of back lighting, that’s what I always say. Well perhaps not always, but I do like it when I see it. Just before 8pm this evening, as the sun beamed through the large main railway station windows I loved it.
37 Days – Holiday project.
The town’s bus station is currently being redone, brought up to scratch, all nice and posh. A traditional photograph of the building site would perhaps have been more informative and would certainly have provided a valuable photo documentation for future generations. However, I think this picture somehow captures the holiday season, the hot sunny days, the balmy evenings and those dreamy hours spent reclining by the pool…… eyeing up the cranes 🙂
37 Days – Holiday project.
Speaking of Olympics: Today I listened to all sorts of interesting reasons why ‘we’ didn’t win a bicycle race. It would seem that the other teams didn’t help us, in fact they even tried to win themselves! Well that doesn’t seem at all fair!… but as I’ve said, I know nothing about sport and even less about cycling so perhaps I’d better change the subject.
I feel quite proud to show these images of park benches, the very same model as those dotted around the Olympic village. First tried and tested just ten minutes a way from where I live.
37 Days – Holiday project.
The day started with breakfast out and the weekly shopping in a pleasantly deserted shopping centre. Then, before cutting the lawn and pottering around in the garden, I went for a leisurely walk with the dog.
37 Days – Holiday project.
By no stretch of the imagination could I be thought of as having even the slightest interest in sport. There was some sort of football event this year, and I’m still not really sure whether it was a European or a World cup 😉 Apparently there was an Olympic game somewhere just four years ago… and I think I missed it
So it’s all the more amazing that here I am, sitting in front of the tele watching the opening ceremony of this years games in London.
The whole planet seems to be talking about it, and as they’ve spent all that money, the very least I can do is watch it. There was no excuse for missing it either because this model Big Ben advertising the Swiss TV coverage just couldn’t be overlooked as I made my way home this evening.
37 Days – Holiday project.
As I made my weary way home this evening, I could never even begin to imagine the excitement that was to come. As the evening cooled and the sun slid slowly towards the horizon, we harvested our complete onion crop. Compared with other years it is somewhat modest, but I’m eagerly looking forward to a large cheese and onion sandwich.
37 Days – Holiday project.
Speaking of art….
Plans are afoot to erect an original, large and to many no doubt completely out of place, dockside crane on the banks of the stretch of river shown in today’s photos. It’s a very controversial project (surprise surprise) but according to the newspaper that I read, it should be standing there in all its glory in 2014.
Taking a moment to do a bit of research, the web has now revealed all about the “Art and the City, public art festival”, a piece of which I photographed and discussed in yesterdays ‘Day 11 from 37’ entry.
It makes very interesting reading, and of course when one understands what it’s all about, what it means, what statement it’s trying to make, what the artist is actually saying, well I suppose the object doesn’t seem quite so obscure or misplaced.
http://www.artandthecity.ch/en/