Foto Tunes

Tom the backroads traveller hosts this weekly meme


May 2019 - Paris France

Dedicated to the One I Love - Jakob Dylan and Jade Castrinos

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Foto Tunes

Tom the backroads traveller hosts this weekly meme.

May 2019 - Rome Italy

Bob Dylan - When I Paint My Masterpiece

Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble
Ancient footprints are everywhere

You can almost think that you’re seein’ double
On a cold, dark night on the Spanish Stairs

Got to hurry on back to my hotel room

Where I’ve got me a date with Botticelli’s niece

She promised that she’d be right there with me
When I paint my masterpiece

Foto Tunes

 Tom the backroads traveller hosts this weekly meme.

May 2019 - Paris France

Ella Fitzgerald - I Love Paris

Every time I look down on this timeless town

Whether blue or gray be her skies

Whether loud be her cheers

Or whether soft be her tears

More and more do I realize that...

I love Paris in the spring time

I love Paris in the fall

I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles

I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles

I love Paris every moment

Every moment of the year

I love Paris, why oh why do I love Paris

Because my love is near

I love Paris in the spring time

I love Paris in the fall

I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles

I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles

I love Paris every moment

Every moment of the year

I love Paris, why oh why do I love Paris

Because my love is near

THREE

  One Word Sunday

Lyon France

Weekend Roundup

 Welcome to The Weekend Roundup...hosted by Tom The Back Roads Traveler

Starts with K

Favourite

KIND - chosen by Tom

TATS and TOKES

I'm going to feature the many Toronto tattoo and cannabis outlets that are proliferating around the city.

STARTS WITH K

Lake Shore Blvd W Toronto

FAVOURITE

Copenhagen Denmark

KIND

14 KINDS (Varietes) of mussels in Lyon France

FRINGE BENEFIT

KEYBOARD Spadina and College Toronto

Weekend Roundup

  Welcome to The Weekend Roundup...hosted by Tom The Back Roads Traveler

Starts with D

Favourite

DAWN - chosen by Tom

TATS and TOTES

I'm going to feature the many Toronto tattoo and cannabis outlets that are proliferating around the city.

Starts with D

Toronto cannabis franchise with locations around the city.

FAVOURITE

DOOR ON DUPONT ST

DAWN

Sunrise in Lyon France

FRINGE BENEFITS - MURALS

DOG by Birdo

Weekend Roundup

  Welcome to The Weekend Roundup...hosted by Tom The Back Roads Traveler

1. Starts with "X"
2. A Favorite
3.Looks like an X - chosen by Tom

Starts with "X"

Toronto ON

FAVOURITE

The Basilica of Saints Nazarius and Celsus Carcassonne France

LOOKS LIKE AN X

Paris France

Déjà Brew

A catchall for leftover beer, coffee, food, motels and whatever catches my fancy!

OPEN

 One Word Sunday

2019 - Juan les Pins France

Ponder

 One Word Sunday

Paris France

Weekend Reflections

 Posting at Weekend Reflections

The challenge has been expanded to include street photography as well so I shall start including street scenes.

Going into a further lockdown I am drawing on previous trips.

2019 - Barcelona Spain

Weekend Reflections

 Posting at Weekend Reflections

The challenge has been expanded to include street photography as well so I shall start including street scenes.

May 2019 - Paris France

Parisien style

Architecture

  September 2020 - Toronto ON

My second time participating and the challenge is Architecture.

I'm not an artist, but I love playing with software. I took a photo from our trip to Europe last year.

Château de Chenonceau Loire Valley France

Converted this using PicMonkey.

I used a new to me editing program Instapainting here. Filter Flower Market

PhotoFunia is a favourite of mine. I thought this was fun to include.

Also from PhotoFunia, I couldn't resist.

Signs 2

 Joining Tom at Signs2.

Wordless Wednesday Wordless Be There 2day

Mosaic Monday

Continuing with pit stops...
a stop (as during a trip) for fuel, food, or rest or for use of a restroom.

May 2019 - Bordeaux France

Signs 2

Joining Tom at Signs2.
Wordless Wednesday Wordless Be There 2day
Gay NYC Dad

Continuing with pit stops...
a stop (as during a trip) for fuel, food, or rest or for use of a restroom.

2019 - Barcelona Spain

Speciality

One Word Sunday


May 2019 - Bordeaux France


When it comes to pastry, you cannot get more "classic French" than cannelés (pronounced "can-eh-lay"), also spelled canelés. They come from the Bordeaux region of France, where they are a regional pride.
A canelé is a small French pastry flavored with rum and vanilla with a soft and tender custard center and a dark, thick caramelized crust. It takes the shape of a small, striated cylinder up to five centimeters in height with a depression at the top.

inSPIREd Sunday

Sally and Beth host inSPIREd Sunday!  

May 2019 - Paris France

This was a busy week as we ended our bus tour of France in Paris and then went on to Rome and Florence!

The Sainte-Chapelle ("Holy Chapel"), located within the Palais de Justice complex on the Ile de la Cité in the center of Paris, is a diminutive yet perfect example of the Rayonnant Style of Gothic architecture. It was erected by Louis IX, king of France, to house the Crown of Thorns and a fragment of the True Cross, precious relics of the Passion. Louis had purchased these in 1239 from the Byzantine emperor Baldwin II, for the exorbitant sum of 135,000 livres (the chapel "only" cost 40,000 livres to build). Two years later, more relics were brought from Byzantium.

The structure is 36 m (118 ft) long, 17 m (56 ft) wide, and 42.5 m (139 ft) high. Fronted by a two-story porch, the Sainte-Chapelle has the emphatically vertical proportions of Gothic architecture, which had been perfected during the 12th century. The architectural model is that of a building with a single nave, culminating in a chevet with seven panels. Outside, the design concentrates on the essentials – a sober base and heavy buttresses contrasting with the soaring lightness of the upper parts. The slate roof is dominated by the spire made of cedar, 33 meters (108 ft) high, a masterpiece of finesse, made in the 19th century, but an exact replica of the 15th century spire.

French fleurs de lys on an azure background and towers of Castile alternate on the columns. The towers are an homage to Blanche of Castile, Saint Louis' mother. The vaulted ceiling is painted to resemble star-filled heavens, and the floor contains tombstones covering the sepulchres of treasurers and reverends of the Sainte-Chapelle. During the period of the monarchy, the lower chapel was reserved for palace staff.

Perceived as a symbol of both religion and royalty, the Sainte-Chapelle suffered considerable damage as a result of the French Revolution. Its furniture, stalls and choir wall disappeared; the organ built by François Henri Cliquot was transported to Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois; the spire was knocked down, the tympans damaged, and the holy relics were scattered. Most of the statues were saved by Alexandre Lenoir. Starting in 1837 under the auspices of Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, significant restoration work was undertaken by the architects Félix Duban, Jean Baptiste Lassus and Emile Boeswillwald, and by 1868 the Sainte-Chapelle was returned to its previous splendor. While some of the relics were never to be found again, others are today kept in the treasure of Notre-Dame Cathedral and at the National Library.


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