Sunday, November 6, 2011
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Since most of my trips to Paris have been in the late fall and winter, I have been able to observe the trees in the gardens and along the Champs Elysées sans feuilles. I've always been fascinated by the time consuming trimming that it must take to keep them all in shape. Here in Tuileries late on a January afternoon, you can see the effects of pollarding. One day I hope to catch the tree trimming crew in action and see exactly how the do it. Merci to my blog friend Karin Bugge, who also happens to be a docent at the Huntington Gardens in Pasadena. She knew the term off the top of her head. Trés impressed.
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- Virginia
- Birmingham, AL, United States
- I am a former elementary school teacher, a full-time photographer, lover of all things French ( whose French is slowly improving), obsessive Paris traveler, enthusiastic church and community volunteer, and grandmother to 5 delightful grandchildren.
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I fell in love with Paris in March 2007. It was as the French say, le coup de foudre : love at first sight. As a result of that trip, my photography took another direction. Since that time I have pursued a career of sorts in photography and dreamed of returning to the City of Light. November 2008 found me strolling the streets of Paris once again. My first visit I was so overwhelmed with the incredible beauty of the city, I photographed it as a "tourist". In 2008 I returned and I looked at the city with more of a photographer's eye. I wanted to capture the unique, the small details, and oh yes - the people! This blog was started as a photo diary of that trip, but I have been most fortunate to return to the city j'adore 15 times since. Each time I leave, I wipe a tear and start planning my list for the next trip. Paris may well be a moveable feast, but I think it's best savored in person! Someone told me that once you have been to Paris, you will leave a piece of your heart. I left mine right there, but I brought home some wonderful memories. It is my pleasure to share them with you.
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17 comments:
The pallarding certainly has contributed to make this picture out of this world !
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Awesome scenery there, I like a lot! :)
Here for me it's the end of my school vacations.
C'est la vie!
Hugs and a nice week ahead,
Léia
A beautiful winter scene from Paris Virginia.
Costas
Makes for a great shot too! Wonderful.
Oh yes...sometimes even MORE beautiful in this state, for we can see the bare bones of the trees that have been there, that have SEEN much and have weathered time...
Virginia, this is surreal and I think the B&W is perfect!
This works beautifully as a b&w. I have also wondered about the number of people and hours it must take to keep all of the trees looking so 'proper' in France.
That Karin sounds like an awful show-off. (This photo, j'adore.
The trees all have crew cuts!
Bravo aux coiffeurs de la nature...
Et merci pour cette jolie photo.
gros bisous
What a great picture, V! I've seen them "squaring up" the trees in the little park behind Notre Dame. I'll just say that hydraulics were involved.
Our neighbors just had a crew of people in pollarding their trees, it was really something to see them high up climbing around like monkeys with chainsaws...
Summer in Paris is nice too though... :-)
Owen, yes summer in Paris is delightful, but travel/money issues require the winter months. I would love to see the crews. Alexa says hydraulics are involved! Bien sûr!
V
I've never seen anything like that! Truly a marvelous photo. Like most people, I love trees!
I learn something new everyday! I have never heard of pollarding! Leave it to the French to even have their trees looking elegant!!
Here on the Island everything is so wild and unkepted it drives me crazy!
Love the B&W, Virginia. This photo's special. Yes, catch them at it, would you? I'd love to see it.
Black and white enhances the drama of this shot. Is pollarding like pleaching? Warm regards
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