Showing posts with label versailles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label versailles. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

read a good poem: travelling

"secret spot," versailles park

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Travelling

This is the spot:—how mildly does the sun
Shine in between the fading leaves! the air
In the habitual silence of this wood
Is more than silent: and this bed of heath,
Where shall we find so sweet a resting-place?
Come!—let me see thee sink into a dream
Of quiet thoughts,—protracted till thine eye
Be calm as water when the winds are gone
And no one can tell whither.—my sweet friend!
We two have had such happy hours together
That my heart melts in me to think of it.

--William Wordsworth via poets.org

Sunday, May 22, 2011

paris postcard: versailles, inside (day 2)

nice bow
louis xiv. 1668 (oil on canvas), by henri testelin

the boudoir of marie-antoinette...

and her little secret doorways



the feathers, looking fresh and foofy as ever.

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portantine/portantina of pope leo xiii. 1887,

i love the sculpted "drapery"
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restoration
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bataille de fotenoy, May 11, 1745.
by horace venet 1828.
bataille de fotenoy, detail
the gallery

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all photos taken may 21, 2011
© anita aguilar

paris postcard: versailles views (day 2)




whoa. not parisienne style...


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the lovely l'orangerie






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all photos taken may 21, 2011
© anita aguilar

paris postcard: pretty city, day 2 - pretty with pink

a favorite shot from versailles...

may 21, 2011
photo © anita aguilar