Isn’t this what France is all about? Lazy brunches, long lunches of french onion soup and crepes, and dinner served on the cobbles. The outside cafes and restaurants of Saumur were a delight – not only for the food they…
We’ve called this photo ‘Ancient Eruption’. It features massive spears of rock which rise into the sky near Mont Blanc, France. I share this to continue our French theme this week here on Taraji Blue. This picture continues our week…
To continue our French theme this week, I am sharing this image of Saumur Castle. I love its position, not only high above the city it’s also elevated above a number of walkways from where you can obtain an unusual…
I could not celebrate France without sharing this photo. It features three lonely sunflowers in a field of companions who have passed on. We’d missed the sunflower season and were accustomed to seeing row upon row of dead flowers in…
A lonesome farm building in the Loire Valley, France, captured in wide angle. I really love the soil patterns and the way they lead they eye to the abandoned old building. I wonder who lived there? When and why they…
This week we’re continuing to celebrate France on Taraji Blue. This image was taken in the Loire Valley in the middle of a field of sunflowers. Armed with a ladder, torch and bug spray we set out at midnight to…
This week on Taraji Blue we’re going all French. We’ll be sharing photos daily from this beautiful country. In this photo, sunflowers gaze across an empty field, seemingly mourning the loss of their friends. We were lucky to find a…
We saw many beautiful icebergs in Greenland, hundreds of them. Immense in size, colour and shape, they dotted the landscape like sheep dot English hillsides. Whilst I loved the majestic nature of the large smooth icebergs, I was also drawn…
In China, songbirds are kept in bamboo cages. Their owners take them for walks and hang the bird cages off tree branches. They will often cluster the cages together so the birds can be introduced. This wee bird was hanging…
A lone iceberg floats in the calm of a Norwegian Fiord. This image was taken during our Arctic Expedition on the MS Expedition in 2010. We spent a glorious 10 nights exploring the fiords and seas of Svalbard, Spitsbergen and…