Tadoussac in June

June 2014, Tadoussac, QC, Canada, 

Getaway in Canada for a week after a congress in Montreal. 

At the intersection of the 'Fjord du Saguenay' and of the 'Fleuve Saint Laurent' (called as 'The See' by the locals, because of its width of about 20km at Tadoussac level), Tadoussac is nested between the imposing valley of the Fjord and the silence of the all-presnet water. It is also a landmark for the whales in Summer. After spending Winter in the warm Caribbean waters, they migrate to the North and find copious meals here is Tadoussac waters. The geography of the bottom at the intersection of the Fjord and the river allows plankton to be pulled up from the bottom to the water and then, become available for whales. 

Hotel Tadoussac, the perfect view on the Saint Laurent

Crossing the Saint Laurent to the other bank (Gaspésie in front), with beluga swimming around the boat

New Orleans in Street Car

New Orelans - French Quarter

December 6 (Saint Nicolas day)- New Orleans

For the weekend, I came from New York to New Orleans and I met my "papounet" to enjoy some great family time and walk in the French Quarter: colorful houses, evergreen plants, scented flowers and Christmas decoration

NOMA - New Orleans Museum of Art

December 7, New Orleans

Nice walk in the sculpture garden followed by the visit of the diversified collection which includes Asian art, American and French impressionists. 

http://noma.org/

Braque - Landscape at L'Estaque (1906)

a piece of contemporary art - daily items repetition painted in gold

Bear Mountain State Park (New York)

October 2013

To enjoy the Fall Foliage

Bluebird of happiness

The Navajo (North American tribe) identify the Mountain Bluebird as a spirit in animal form, associated with the rising sun. The Bluebird Song is sung to remind tribe members to wake at dawn and rise to greet the sun:

Bluebird said to me,

"Get up, my grandchild.

It is dawn," it said to me.

Three species of blue-headed North American thrushes (Turdidae) occupy the genus Sialia. 

* The most widespread and best-known is the Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis), breeding from Canada's prairie provinces to Texas and from the Maritimes to Florida; discrete populations of this species are also found from southeastern Arizona through west Mexico into Guatemala and Nicaragua. 

* The Mountain Bluebird (S. currucoides) breeds on high-elevation plains from central Alaska to Arizona and New Mexico. 

* The Western Bluebird (S. mexicana) inhabits dry coniferous forests from extreme southwestern Canada to Baja California and from the Great Basin south into west Mexico.

Clearwater beach (Tampa, Florida)