PHOTO #182: Ceci n'est pas le temple de Venus

In fact, this is only a model of a decor representing it...

PHOTO #181: Eros & Psyche

A fascinating exhibition at the castle of Azay-le-Rideau. What happens when our soul sees love for what it is?

PHOTO #180: Stained glass pattern

PHOTO #179: Bench and allium

PHOTO #178: Rowing boat

PHOTO #177: Foxglove

PHOTO #176: Mise en abyme

PHOTO #175: Arundel Cathedral

PHOTO #174: Spiral

PHOTO #173: Copper cherry tree bark

PHOTO #172: Waterlilies

PHOTO #171: Campanulas

PHOTO #170: Flowers by the window

PHOTO #169: White flowers

PHOTO #168: Looking up

PHOTO #167: A roof over our heads

And what a roof!

PHOTO #166: Knocking on Heaven's door

I could almost be convinced that this is the way to Heaven above!

PHOTO #165: A quiet chapel

PHOTO #164: Windows

"And I will make your windows of agates, and your gates of carbuncles, and all your borders of pleasant stones."

PHOTO #163: Saint Catherine

In the Fitzalan Chapel at Arundel Castle.

PHOTO #162: Waiting for the resurrection

Gisant of a bishop of Chichester.

PHOTO #161: Saint Richard

In front of Chichester Cathedral.

PHOTO #160: Ludwig

Es bluht eine Blume im Garten...

PHOTO #159: Pointy-nosed pixie

PHOTO #158: A sylph?

PHOTO #157: An odd urn

PHOTO #156: Crouching tiger, Vegan dragon

PHOTO #155: The Cerynean hind?

It does have antlers like a stag, and hooves of bronze...

PHOTO #154: The house of Mother Goose

Don't tell anyone, but this is not really Mother Goose's house. In fact, this is where famous garden designer John Brooks lives.

PHOTO #153: Stormy sky

PHOTO #152: River Soar

PHOTO #151: Swan

PHOTO #150: Seen at a wedding

Insert misogynistic joke here...

PHOTO #149: Is it a gaggle, or is it a queue?

Canadian geese, but they queue with such discipline you'd swear they are English.

PHOTO #148: Foam

PHOTO #147: Samson slaying a Philistine

Statue by Giambologna, in the V&A.
I'm all for slaying Philistines (a cull is something I may have mentioned elsewhere). but Samson should be careful. If his opponent is willing to fight dirty, he could be in for a very nasty surprise...

PHOTO #146: Lock

PHOTO #145: Slow lane

PHOTO #144: Diamond

PHOTO #143: What a beautiful couple!

PHOTO #142: Horse tamer

You just feel that whispering wouldn't work with this one...

PHOTO #141: Jazz Seine

PHOTO #140: The thinking reed

"Je ne peux concevoir l'homme sans pensée; ce serait une pierre, ou une brute" (Blaise Pascal, Pensées) - "I cannot conceive Man without thought; he would be a stone, or a brute"

PHOTO #139: Barges

PHOTO #138: Have mercy

PHOTO #137: The sun never sets

PHOTO #136: Five bridges

PHOTO #135: Through the trees and into the sky

PHOTO #134: Heaven, seen from above

PHOTO #133: Reflection