photo: winter in Tenby
between today’s news
and walking towards the cold sun
so easy to choose
Archives par mot-clé : winter
Then*
photo :
…then you will sit down
in the resting area
and will be moved
when reaching the letter o
marveling over words
and close the story drawers
until your bones crumble
*First posted in 2021, edited in 2025
...then you will sit down
in the resting area
and will be moved
when reaching the letter o
marvelling over the words
then close the story drawer
until your bones crumble
and so be it*
photo: en hiver
no more echo
only the hubbub of the word
that deafens you but
we start again anyway
every morning
we look for the good side of things
we search within
and leave the giant
landmark to others
and so be it
*reposted from 2022, edited in 2025 (text only)
#4032 poetry*
photo : obviously, a photo from a winter different from the ones we have in Nelson, but the feeling is the same. Ottawa River. This ghostly vision spontaneously inspired a(n almost) rhymed poem in French (not so much in English, though)
We found our ghosts/
where we had placed them/
in the river of our dreams/
where they fell asleep/
listening our lies/
but the music was nice/.
*put online in 2024, edited in 2025
#4048 simple news
Photo: Il like the scarcity of winter.
In January 2025, I thought it was time to put all my photos on my computer to finally organize them. After uploading about 22,000 of them, my app refused to add any more, and that’s when I realized I had to do something, so I started the challenge to delete one photo at a time. I only have 8,000 photos left to review, after which I’ll add the remaining 7 or 8,000 on USB, and then finally put each photo in the album it belongs to. I wouldn’t recommend the laissez-faire attitude I’ve shown to anyone, but there have been some good times. Among other things, I’ve realised that I need to wait a little before deleting them (not for ten years like I did), that taking a photo often makes me remember a moment or place better, and that my tastes and approach to photography have evolved over time. But all this work also means that I’ve taken very few photos this year, and I’m looking forward to getting back to it.
Temperature-wise, winter is well and truly here in Nelson, with temperatures of 1 degree at night and 13 during the day (but it’s 7 or 8 in the morning when I go for my walk). The top of the mountains are all white, but the sun is shining, and it’s pleasant to go for a brisk walk and feel a little warm at the end of it.