Posted in Animal, Nature, Photos, Travel / Voyage
Un voyage de Nature et de Culture cette fois-ci pour mon 19ième voyage au Mexique. Hé oui j’aime bien ce pays en particulier et l’Amérique latine en général.
Allez voir l’album photo à http://on.fb.me/suqKS2
P.S.: L’album photo de l’an dernier – Mexique 2010 – est à http://on.fb.me/ryHB4V
Posted in Animal, Environment, Family & Friends / Famille & Amis, Nature, Photos, Travel / Voyage
Land Art work in an Apple Orchard by artist Olivier Lefebvre - Photo by Gilles Arbour
Last week there was a Land Art Event in my hometown Mont-Saint-Hilaire.
One of the 10 invited artists (Olivier Lefebvre) did this portrait of Steve Jobs using thousands of apples. Very cool!
Posted in Art, English, Environment, Inspiration, Nature, Photos
Tagged Apple, Land Art, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Streve Jobs
Mise à jour – plein de photos sur facebook à:
http://on.fb.me/oo1X38
Land Art à Mont-Saint-Hilaire… C’est parti! On habille les arbres avec des robes en pommes. Venez voir ça en fin de semaine http://www.ville.mont-saint-hilaire.qc.ca/site/pages/Culture/Land-art.aspx
Quand 5,000 pommes deviennent des pixels… Hommage à Steve Jobs et à Apple bien sûr! L’artiste débute son oeuvre qui promet d’être bien intéressante.
Mise à jour du 15 octobre: Steve Jobs est dans les pommes…
Une oeuvre de Olivier Lefebvre.
Une araignée s’installle dans le verger…
Encore une fois! L’événement du Land Art 2011 aura lieu à Mont-Saint-Hilaire du 12 au 16 octobre 2011. Des artistes formidables y participeront dans un l’environnement magnifique que nous propose le Pavillon de la Pomme.
Tous les détails à http://www.ville.mont-saint-hilaire.qc.ca/site/pages/Culture/Land-art.aspx
Vous pouvez aussi voir mes reportages complets des années précédentes:
2007 https://gillesarbour.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/land-art-a-mont-saint-hilaire/
2008 https://gillesarbour.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/land-art-2008-prendre-son-envol/
Pour un aperçu de la récolte de l’an 2010 voici quelques photos:
Rouge Pomme
Bruno Tassé au travail
Oeuvre de Bruno Tassé
Un autre point de vue
La vie en bleu...
L'étang
The Big Apple
Guylaine prisonnière de la Pomme
Allsstair Heseltine discutant de son oeuvre
Roxane et Marie-Jo
Petite pause pour Marie-Jo
Racines
Les chaises
Chemin de roches,
deux gélinottes huppées;
bienvenu au chalet
Au crépuscule
une flûte lointaine;
la grive des bois
Du fond des temps
son cri déchire la nuit;
majestueux huard
Au bord du ruisseau
enlacées par l’amour
deux libellules!
Nénuphar jauni,
grenouille immobile,
nul ne l’a vue!
Traces sur le sable,
une odeur de fourrure,
le basset fige là!
Hors de son cocon
le papillon s’exhibe;
repas de souris!
L’été un jeudi,
fleurs d’asclépiades,
le sphynx colibri
Larve brunâtre
t’en souviens-tu,
toi libellule?
Marche en forêt
deux petits champignons rouges
soudain voilà l’ours!
Posted in Français, Inspiration, Nutrition
I often visit a really nice Nature blog called Swampthings. Today we can see pictures of the pond. I could not help but “respond” with a picture of our own pond. 🙂
This art work is part of a wonderful Land Art exhibition happening locally in my home town Mont-Saint-Hilaire in Quebec.
On the pond this 2010 Fall
Posted in English, Environment, Nature, Photos, Plantes / Plants
Rules Of The Blues – Author Unkown.
1. Most Blues begin, “Woke up this morning…”
2. “I got a good woman” is a bad way to begin the Blues, unless you stick something nasty in the next line like, “I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town.”
3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right, repeat it. Then find something that rhymes… sort of: “Got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Yes, I got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher, and she weigh 500 pound.”
4. The Blues is not about choice. You stuck in a ditch, you stuck in a ditch–ain’t no way out.
5. Blues cars: Chevys, Fords, Cadillacs and broken-down trucks. Blues don’t travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport Utility Vehicles. Most Blues transportation is a Greyhound bus or a southbound train. Jet aircraft and company motor pools ain’t even in the running. Walkin’ plays a major part in the blues lifestyle. So does fixin’ to die.
6. Teenagers can’t sing the Blues. They ain’t fixin’ to die yet. Adults sing the Blues. In Blues, “adulthood” means being old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.
7. Blues can take place in New York City but not in Hawaii or any place in Canada. Hard times in Minneapolis or Seattle is probably just clinical depression. Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City are still the best places to have the Blues. You cannot have the blues in any place that don’t get rain.
8. A man with male pattern baldness ain’t the blues. A woman with male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg cause you were skiing is not the blues. Breaking your leg ’cause a alligator be chompin’ on it is.
9. You can’t have no Blues in a office or a shopping mall. The lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster.
10. Good places for the Blues:
a. Highway
b. Jailhouse
c. An empty bed
d. Bottom of a whiskey glass
11. Bad places for the Blues:
a. Nordstrom’s
b. Gallery openings
c. Ivy league institutions
d. Golf courses
12. No one will believe it’s the Blues if you wear a suit, ‘less you happen to be a old ethnic person, and you slept in it.
13. You have the right to sing the Blues if:
a. You older than dirt
b. You blind
c. You shot a man in Memphis
d. You can’t be satisfied
14. You don’t have the right to sing the Blues if:
a. You have all your teeth
b. You were once blind but now can see
c. The man in Memphis lived
d. You have a pension fund
15. Blues is not a matter of color. It’s a matter of bad luck. Tiger Woods cannot sing the blues. Sonny Liston could. Ugly white people also got a leg up on the blues.
16. If you ask for water and your darlin’ give you gasoline, it’s the Blues
17. Other acceptable Blues beverages are:
a. Cheap wine
b. Whiskey or bourbon
c. Muddy water
d. Nasty black coffee
18. The following are NOT Blues beverages:
a. Perrier
b. Chardonnay
c. Snapple
d. Slim Fast
19. If death occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it’s a Blues death. Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another Blues way to die. So is the electric chair, substance abuse and dying lonely on a broke-down cot. You can’t have a Blues death if you die during a tennis match or while getting liposuction.
20. Some Blues names for women:
a. Sadie
b. Big Mama
c. Bessie
d. Fat River Dumpling
21. Some Blues names for men:
a. Joe
b. Willie
c. Little Willie
d. Big Willie
22. Persons with names like Michelle, Amber, Debbie, and Heather can’t sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in Memphis.
23. Make your own Blues name Starter Kit: a. name of physical infirmity (Blind, Cripple, Lame, etc.) b. first name (see above) plus name of fruit (Lemon, Lime, Melon, Kiwi, etc.) c. last name of President (Jefferson, Johnson, Fillmore, etc.) For example: Blind Lime Jefferson, Jackleg Lemon, Johnson or Cripple Kiwi Fillmore, etc. (Well, maybe not “Kiwi.”)
24. I don’t care how tragic your life: if you own even one computer, you cannot sing the blues. Well maybe if you own a PC – but certainly not a Mac…
Posted in Humor/humour, Music / Musique
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