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Stephane
@stephfr.bsky.social
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Neurodivergent, eco/climate anxious Homo sapiens.
Photography, Science, History, Poetry, the Dictionary, Geology, Paleontology.
🌎 Born @ 323 ppm CO2
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The future has flown away

My son has left

To embrace the vast sky

Pierre-Louis, 1991-2025
October 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Paris.
Église Saint-Etienne-du-Mont.
The rood screen.
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Despite a construction of the choir, then of the nave, spread over about thirty years, the architecture of the building offers a remarkable uniformity, clearly visible at the level of the piles and the vault. The Gothic architectural style is enriched with a Renaissance ornamentation, in a very harmonious marriage. A magnificent jube (rood screen), the only one left in Paris, cuts the building in two. Architectural and artistic feat, its design dates from the early 1530s. The tribune, nine meters long, is supported by a basket-ended vault that culminates at four meters. A typical ornamentation of the early Renaissance (the écoinçons) is combined with the classical Gothic style of the railing and stairs, a style not without a Mooorish influence.
June 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Paris. Église Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, built from 1492 to 1626. Here, the nave-transept crossing.
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The nave-transept crossing is one of the masterpieces of this church, built around 1584-1586. This vault is a magnificent example of the transition from late Gothic to Renaissance style. The thirds that divide the space are gothic, as are the hanging keys and the openwork discs with fine chisels that furnish these spaces. The other motifs of ornamentation are totally Renaissance. The artistic fantasy of the whole is typical of the late 16th century. The central hanging key has a height of 2.40 meters. It is kept in balance almost five meters below the top of the vault thanks to curved links stiffened by an invisible metal reinforcement, present from the origin.
June 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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It was a picnic with a view.
West of Paris.
📷 🌞 🍀 🌳
A panoramic photo taken from the edge of a pond. The various plants and tree species that border this body of water offer a beautiful palette of greens. The sky is blue with some cumulus clouds reflected in the water.
June 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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The garden vista.
Lush greens.
Peacefulness.

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The view from the top of our garden, by the terrasse. On the right is the pond. The left path leads to a pergola, the right path to the arch, which opens onto the orchard. The vegetable plot is set at the bottom of the land, by the tree line where a river flows.
May 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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The swallows have returned in large numbers this week.
Such beautiful birds.

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A swallow on an electricity cable, with a clear blue sky
May 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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The facade of an 18th century building in the Santa Maria Maior district, covered in azulejos. Lisbon, Portugal.
April 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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The dominant color in the garden this week.

Spring is an opportunity for the mind.

#spring #iris
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At the top center of the photo, a blue iris in full bloom, several others in the background. At the edge of a pond, the sky is blue with a few small clouds.
April 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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A beautiful visitor while gardening : a female Calopteryx virgo.
The body is blue-green metallic iridescent and the eyes blue-green. The female has brown and fairly dark iridescent wings, adorned with a small white spot near the end. Its abdomen is blue with a bronze part at the end.
April 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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In the pond of our garden, a happy frog again, this time croaking, in video.
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April 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Joyeux anniversaire !!

Here are some echinoids with spines (Acrosalenia hemicidaroides), middle Jurassic.
From Landaville, Vosges, France.
A slab show some fossilised Echinoids their spines. One of the echinoids has his Aristoteles lantern. The slab is 22 x 12 cm.
April 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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The Euphorbia myrsinites is a feast for some polistes.
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A poliste feasting on the flowers of an Euphorbia myrsinites.
April 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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We have some very happy (and very noisy) frogs in the pond.
And hundreds of tadpoles.
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A male green frog sunbathing in a pond. A female green frog sunbathing in a pond.
April 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Spring starts here when my Euphorbia myrsinites is in bloom.
Lush greens 💚
The center of a flowerbed in my courtyard shows in the foreground a flowering Euphorbia myrsinites. Just behind, with a disc of white marble pebbles at its base, my first homemade bonsai. All around are different succulents. The different and rich shades of green, together, are visually attractive.
March 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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The ballet of the cranes.
Elegance and endurance.
February 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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The first poem was written 44 years ago.
The text in English is the translation of the French one, also here.
(It is not always sad).
A DAY WITHOUT JOY There are days when we want to be underground And not to be in love with a star There are days when the sun is sad And the coffee bitter There are days that we would like to scratch And that we would like to end There are days we would like to see after Like bad nightmares Erased gummed There are days when the soup has no taste And life even less There are days when we would like to be of marble Of wood or of iron There are days when the night is long to come And sleep too There are days when the sky is too heavy to carry And our body to support There are days when the heart weighs Like a tombstone February 9th, 2022 UN JOUR SANS JOIE Il y a des jours où l'on a envie d'être sous terre Et de ne pas être amoureux d'une étoile Il y a des jours où le soleil est triste Et le café amer Il y a des jours que l'on voudrait rayer Et que l'on voudrait passés Il y a des jours que l'on voudrait voir après Comme mauvais cauchemars Effacés gommés Il y a des jours où la soupe n'a pas de goût Et la vie encore moins Il y a des jours où l'on voudrait être de marbre De bois ou de fer Il y a des jours où la nuit se fait attendre Et le sommeil aussi Il y a des jours où le ciel est trop lourd à porter Et son corps à soutenir Il y a des jours où le coeur pèse Comme une pierre tombale 9 février 2022
February 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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📹 I offer you few seconds of peacefulness, far away from the world craziness.
I so enjoy living where we are.
South West of France.
💙 🦋 🏞️ 🦢
February 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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The wood texture is nicely visible when you zoom in.
A piece of petrified wood
January 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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A slightly different angle.
The piece is 14 cm/5.51” long and weight 472 grams.
A piece of petrified wood
January 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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My first #FossilFriday post!
Here is a nice piece of petrified wood I found in the river that originates in our village.
Two more photos 👇🧵
A pie a of petrified wood
January 31, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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🐕 His Lordship resting on the sofa, because his two beds downstairs are not as good as this space, which is less and less mine.
A close up photo of our dog, Borgia, resting on the sofa. The wrinkles, the hippo nose the long chops, the tiny ears and the stubbornness : yes, he is a real Shar Pei !
January 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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January 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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January 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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📷 Fhe wonders of nature by a cold and bright winter morning.
🍂 ❄️ ☀️ 🌍
On a cold but sunny winter morning, the photo in portrait mode shows some oak leaves that fell to the ground last fall, they are covered with frost. The first rays of the sun illuminate the ice crystals. Due to the framing, the median rib of the largest leaf is in the vertical axis of the frame, the lateral ribs thus offer a form of relative symmetry.
January 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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5. Cultive la concentration, trempe ta volonté, fais de toi-même une force en pensant, le plus intimement possible, que tu es réellement une force.
(Règle de vie)

F. Pessoa est entré dans ma vie en 1999, il est un repère et ses écrits sont toujours à portée de main.
January 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM