dimanche 8 décembre 2013

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. 








Braque - Landscape at L'Estaque (1906)


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

lundi 2 décembre 2013

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.