sport - the fleeting world; bubbles in a stream

June 30, 2016 Still Life

After the UEFA EURO 2016

"The ball once struck off
Away flies the boy
To the destin'd post
And then home with joy."

(D.E. Thomas in the song Home)
Namur (B)

January 19, 2016 Street scenes - buildings

We were the champions!

“We are the champions
No time for losers
‘Cause We are the champions
Of the world.”

(Queen in We are the champions)
Herstal (B)

November 28, 2015 Landscapes Post a Comment

A gate in despair

“O enter with me the gates of delight,
The gates of the garden of man’s desire,
Where spirits, touched by heav’nly fire,
Have planted the trees of life.”

(R.S. Bridges in O enter with me …)
Liège-Tilleur (B)

September 11, 2015 Street Scenes Post a Comment

No more ball

The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes,
But Right or Left, as strikes the Player goes;
And He that toss'd Thee down into the Field,
He knows about it all -- HE knows --- HE knows!

(E. Fitzgerald  from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám)
Herstal (B)

August 7, 2015 What has been left Post a Comment

Silent singing on the grandstand

"Not the sweet, new grass with flowers
Is this harvesting of ours;
  Not the upland clover bloom;
But the rowen mired with weeds,
Tangled tufts from marsh and meads,
Where the poppy drops its seeds
  In the silence and the gloom."

(H.W. Longfellow in Aftermath)
Herstal (B)

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After the UEFA EURO 2016

We were the champions!

A gate in despair

No more ball

Silent singing on the grandstand