RAMBLE: MY BLOG
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Magnificent Munich
2023-11-26 17:28:15 UTC
As there were no non-stop flights from Marseille back to Washington D.C., we decided to break up our return with a two day stopover in Munich, our connection city. The last time I was in Munich was in the 1970s and I can recall but two things about it, my…
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Cassis, Provence
2023-11-20 23:12:42 UTC
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We had an agenda-free day on the tour so four of us hired a taxi and headed to Cassis, a coastal town along the French Riviera famous for its cliffs, the sheltered inlets called calanques and lots of boats. For me it was an opportunity to roam around and capture…
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Vibrant, Vivacious Marseille
2023-11-13 21:31:59 UTC
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I think this is the third organized tour I have joined. One in 2006 was a photo tour to Scotland, it rained every day, I believe we had two hours of sunshine over 12 days. The second was a photo tour in Iceland. Traveling with another photographer is always a…
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The Caumont Centre D’Art
2023-11-08 08:17:27 UTC
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Street entrance
For largest display, click on each individual photograph
It’s a garden, it’s a museum, it’s a fine restaurant. It is the Hotel de Caumont, a beautiful former private mansion in the Mazarin quarter of Aix en Provence. The Caumont has a long convoluted history as you would expect…
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Photo of the day, Marseille
2023-11-06 05:33:16 UTC
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Detail, fountain of Palais Longchamp
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Musee Granet
2023-11-02 08:14:14 UTC
The Granet museum has two faces, the first a collection of French, Italian and northern European paintings from the 14th to 19th centuries, and sculpture. The second, housed in a separate building a few blocks removed, exhibits about 70 pieces of 20th-century art, with works by Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso…
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Victor Vasarely; Grandfather of Op-Art, Aix
2023-10-27 06:42:56 UTC
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Victor Vasarely was a Hungarian-French artist widely considered the grandfather of Op-Art. He started his education in medical studies, then switched to traditional painting. I can imagine his parents were not thrilled with that choice. Trained in Budapest in the Bauhaus tradition, Vasarely left Hungary in 1930 for Paris where…
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Aix 3
2023-10-23 06:16:21 UTC
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Flower Market
My son in law describes Aix as beautiful but beige. The tones in the structures are similar of course, but the influence of Greek and Roman architecture makes up for the dearth of color.
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Emile Zola
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The Good King
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The house where Cezanne died
You want color? Come…
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Aix en Provence 2
2023-10-22 04:48:49 UTC
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Rotunda Fountain
The first full day of the tour was exhausting. Smithsonian has a strange way of scheduling. First there is the arrival day when they had a nice little welcome and a group dinner. The next day was a lot of walking and a lecture - in which several…
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Aix en Provence
2023-10-21 09:28:43 UTC
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Color Palette Old town
More than several years ago my wife Amy and I went to Italy to mark a special birthday. We are at it again, another milestone birthday with a trip to Aix en Provence, a town in Southern France not far from Marseille.
Getting here was certainly…