Some stones

Here are some stones in a square in Croix, near the metro station "Town-hall of Croix". And some autumn leaves.

Clara

Test

Test to see if the publishing is OK to-day.

Till'next !

I write 300 messages on all my blogs before I go to the béta version of the blog.
Clara

Flowers climbing at the gate

This flowers are climbing at the gate of the town-hall in Croix ( a town of 20 000 inhabitants in the Lille Métropole between Lille and Roubaix)and next to Roubaix). I toke this photo in last autumn 2005 but I want to publish it because I find it very well how they made it. In this town- hall we married more than thirty years ago.
Clara

Another town of the Lille Métropole : Croix

Croix is another town of the Métropole of Lille : here a little square near a sport hall, where are going all the drivers and passengers of these cars (Square Roger Martin du Gard).
It is an autumn view which I made in october/november 2005.
Clara

Comments opened.

The comments are working again, but I tried two hours long to get them open and now this blog has lost its counter.
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I open the comments.

I forget to open the comments. I'm opening them now.
No; I didn't forget. I tried several times and it do not go. I tried to open the comment-boxes, but it doesn't go on this blog.
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The door of Paris.

It is the triumph entrance of the city through which the king Louis XIV of France (called the sun king : le Roi Soleil) went into the city in the 17th century, when he did conquest this part of Flanders which became then french.

On the left you can see the triumphal door of Paris (doors bear the names of the streets or roads whereon they are lead). Above the right part of the door you see the town-hall tower called Beffroi (Unesco mankind cultural heritage) and the old part of the town-hall. It was rebuilt after the first World War in a flamish neo-gothic style : look at the little tower which looks like the tower of a medieval castle !

Clara

Reflection in a window

This is the reflection in the window of a shop of the tower of the catholic church St Sauveur (in France the most churches are catholic). This church is behind the town hall not far from the railway station Lille-Flandres.
Perle de Rosée.

The Beffroi of Lille.

Here is the Beffroi of Lille. It was built 1923 after the first World War because the first Beffroi was destroyed. A Beffroi is a tower where somebody had to watch upon the surroundings if no ennemy was to make the siege of the town. It was almost always built on the top of the town-hall. The Beffroi of Lille is part of the World Heritage of the UNESCO like 22 other Beffrois of the North-Pas de Calais and Picardy and a lot of Beffrois of Belgium. They have often a play of little bells one which are played smart melodies. In Lille is the hymn the P'tit Quinquin which is sung in Lille's dialect. It is a cradle song where the mother speaks to her child the P'tit Quinquin. The Beffrois are the emblems of the towns of the North Country.

On the right is an Oriel, it is the window of a house which is above the street so that the people can look better to the street. This one has femmish glasses (much little glasses in a wood embrasure).

Perle de Rosée.