The 365+1 Musketeers

This morning the thermometer showed 4 degrees so the park was a massive mud-skating place. I did some quite amazing sliding figures but managed not to hit the ground.

I had decided the goal was to take a picture of Holly berries. I saw some gorgeous ones a couple of days ago, but one of the dogs did something stupid (my darling Rhea must have ringing ears, as always . . .), so I had to rush and couldn't take that picture. I looked everywhere today but although there are massive bushes of holly, there wasn't a single berry to be seen.

So I tuned my attention to pine trees. I always loved them.

I grew up in the center of Marseille (France). That's a big big city and although there were some parks on the outskirts, there were no flowers or grass to be seen anywhere and I missed that terribly.

For Christmas we were going to the local market and would buy a small "living" tree and bring it back home. It used to smell delicious and I remember when the needles started falling, they were hurting our feet if we didn't wear our sleepers.

Since that day grew my love for pine trees and I just have to smell one to be instantly brought back many years go. Ah ! I guess I still feel nostalgic after yesterday's word, lol.


Project 365+1 - day 44: Friendship

No hesitation today. The place to be is right here, right now. That's not a photo I took obviously, but a photo montage.

Only most of my Cyberfriends are here because I couldn't fit you all. Some of you don't have avatars, some of you have avatars but the quality wasn't good enough for a bigger size (funnily enough the dog and the pig were very good quality) . . .  but you are all important, being in the photo or not.

I gave my thanks yesterday without knowing the word of today, so I only can say again: thank you for letting me experience such a fascinating adventure with you all.

Take care everybody, xxx