#bigorre

[postcard-from-the-past]

College of Saint-Pé-de-Bigorre, Gascony region of France

French vintage postcard

[philoursmars]

Je reviens à mon projet de présenter la plupart de mes 55000 photos (nouveau compte approximatif. On se rapproche du présent !).

2016. Je passe quelques jours à Pau chez Christine “hors-saison” !

Ici, une virée en Bigorre, à Lourdes : le château-musée.

- cheval en ivoire de mammouth - Grotte des Espélugues

- crâne d’Ours des cavernes

- statuette en fer forgé - XIII- XIVe s.

- statue de pèlerin de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle, XVIIIe s.

- le reste : la chapelle

[unteriors]

Saint-Lary-Soulan, Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitania.

[retrogeographie]

Bagnères-de-Bigorre, le centre médical.

[dreamconsumer]

Portrait of Blanche of Burgundy (1296-1326), wife of Charles IV of France.

Small mistake: the wife of Charles IV of France was not Marguerite de Bourgogne, but Blanche.

Daughter of Otto IV of Burgundy and Mahaut of Artois, she married the third son of King Philip IV the Fair in 1308 and was not destined to reign.

[apod]

2023 December 9

Pic du Pleiades Image Credit & Copyright: Jean-Francois Graffand

Explanation: Near dawn on November 19 the Pleiades stood in still dark skies over the French Pyrenees. But just before sunrise a serendipitous moment was captured in this single 3 second exposure; a bright meteor streak appeared to pierce the heart of the galactic star cluster. From the camera's perspective, star cluster and meteor were poised directly above the mountain top observatory on the Pic du Midi de Bigorre. And though astronomers might consider the Pleiades to be relatively close by, the grain of dust vaporizing as it plowed through planet Earth's upper atmosphere actually missed the cluster's tight grouping of young stars by about 400 light-years. While recording a night sky timelapse series, the camera and telephoto lens were fixed to a tripod on the Tour-de-France-cycled slopes of the Col du Tourmalet about 5 kilometers from the Pic du Midi.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231209.html

[duxvonzazer]

St Savin, Hautes-Pyrénées, Bigorre, France

[mothmiso]

pyrénées (2) (3) (4) (5) by Geoffrey Robinet

Via Flickr:

(1) Pic du Midi de Bigorre reflected in lac de Payolle. (2) Crocus mauves in the mountains. (3) Pic du midi de Bigorre vu depuis le col d'Aspin. / Pic du Midi de Bigorre seen from the Col d'Aspin. (4) Irska.     

[percehaies]

Bagnères-de-Bigorre

1855

[venicepearl]

Catherine (1468 – 12 February 1517) was Queen of Navarre from 1483 until 1517. She was also Duchess of Gandia, Montblanc, and Peñafiel, Countess of Foix, Bigorre, and Ribagorza, and Viscountess of Béarn.

[love-for-carnation]

Bouquet d'oeillets Blanche Odin (French, 1865–1957)

Blanche studied with watercolorist Madeleine Jeanne Lemaire in Paris, because art schools were closed to women. In 1902 she opened her own workshop. Blanche's works, especially still lifes, were a great success and were favorably assessed by critics and were exhibited in Parisian galleries. She has produced a body of work that is a reflection of France’s tradition in impressionism, and serves as an example of painting during the years between Post-Impressionism and Cubism. Her works are in the collection of the Musée Salies in Bagnères-de-Bigorre.

Other painter's works: https://www.artnet.com/artists/blanche-odin/

[postcard-from-the-past]

Hotel Bellevue in Cauterets, Bigorre region of France

French vintage postcard

[philoursmars]

Fin Juillet, je suis allé faire mon tour habituel chez mon amie Christine à Pau (Béarn)

Le célèbre Boulevard des Pyrénées et, enfin, il fait beau !

Sur la 1ère,Bizaos et le Gabizos, sur la 2ème : le Pic du Midi d'Ossau, 3ème le Pic du Midi de Bigorre, sur la 4ème le Pic de Ger, 5ème : vue d'ensemble.

[cetaceous]

Pic du Midi Observatory The Pic du Midi Observatory is located at 2877 meters on top of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre in the French Pyrenees (Wikipedia). image credit: Pascal Petit via: Wikimedia

[skubri30]

BAGNERES DE BIGORRE - Hautes Pyrénées

Le genre " gastronomie industrielle ", si vous voyez...

[croquissartoriaux]

It's a bit frightening to realise the extent to which small, insignificant decisions can have a definitive influence on the course of a life.

For example, in 1999, I received a phone call; without really knowing why, I picked up, even though I was already late; it was a recruiter offering me an interesting job. Note that 2 minutes later, I wouldn't have answered. In short, I joined her company, met my wife there, we got married, and as she was from Tarbes, we ended up settling in Bigorre, a land where I had no ties whatsoever. One thing led to another and we built our lives, and here I am, almost 25 years later, at 7.50pm in a supermarket on the edge of Bagneres de Bigorre, looking for something to make a pot au feu because ... my dear ... I really want a pot au feu ... and what woman wants ...

Well, it's staggering to think that if I hadn't answered that phone call, I might have been out looking for stuffed zucchinis in Palavas les Flots or even, who knows, andouillette de Guemene in Pattaya!

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