I took these photos exactly one week ago today. That was the last day of our recent spell of hot, sunny weather.
The next day, the weather turned stormy. Hard rains and strong winds blew a lot of the petals off these roses,
most of which grow in a neighbor's yard. Each image can be enlarged by clicking on them a time or two
if you're viewing the blog on a Mac or PC, or by touching and "unpinching" them on a tablet.
The next day, the weather turned stormy. Hard rains and strong winds blew a lot of the petals off these roses,
most of which grow in a neighbor's yard. Each image can be enlarged by clicking on them a time or two
if you're viewing the blog on a Mac or PC, or by touching and "unpinching" them on a tablet.
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What do you think of my new formatting trick?
From cuisse de nymphe émue ( # 5 & 6, my favorites) to rouge sang, blood red!
ReplyDeleteThose are also my favorites, CHM. I remember them from my childhood when they were everywhere it seemed.
DeleteAbout your new formatting trick, you know what? I like it. I knew you'd eventually be able to tame that blogger monster!
ReplyDeleteLove it! I can almost smell them. I like the roses in the third row, the barely there pinks.
ReplyDeleteI just realized I can insert numbers that identify the different images.
DeleteYes, Ken, the numbers are great.
DeleteD, we seem to have the same taste in roses or is it the cuisse de nymphe émue!. I wonder if it was Ronsard who coined this?
DeleteI had to google this expression. It's a good one. Those Alba roses are old roses (19th century) and some of my favorites. We do not see those very often here. Yesterday's roses, the ones Ken moved, were Rosa Rugosa, I believe.
Delete# 5 looks very much like Madame Alfred Carrière.t
ReplyDeleteThis format is great for the close-ups and similar objects, as here with the roses. Very lovely. Too bad if they were crushed by the rain and wind, but there should be more still to come. I'm a fan of the deep pinks in numbers 1 and 4. I'd be kind of embarrassed to touch the nymph's thighs, now that I know what they are called!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite? All of them! I agree with Kiwi about this format being a excellent way to show several similar subjects and they are all beautiful. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteIf I had to choose only one it would be #4.
Nice article on the Hôtel de la Marine, the new museum that opened in Paris this month. A full restoration of an 18th Century hotel de ville on the Place de la Concorde:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/arts/design/hotel-de-la-marine-paris.html
and here's the link to the museum:
https://www.hotel-de-la-marine.paris/en/
Thanks for the links, D.
DeleteThose are just glorious. I particularly like the colors of #4 and #7. French roses are always so very beautiful.
ReplyDeleteKen, I would really love to know how to do this with photos. My blog is on Blogger, too. Any hints for me?
ReplyDeleteJudy
Hi Judy, I get to this kind of formatting by working with the HTML code and view rather than the Compose view in Blogger. I had some training in HTML when I lived in the SF Bay Area all those years ago. I'm not an expert but I can see how the code works and tweak it to improve the formatting. Have you worked with HTML coding?
DeleteI have, Ken, yes. I used to have a blog (ages ago, before Blogger) that I did all in HTML code, so I recognize some of the more common scripts, but it's been a while.
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