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On The Road – frosty – Giverny

by WaterGirl|  June 29, 202110:00 pm| 13 Comments

This post is in: On The Road, On The Road After Dark, Paris After Dark, Photo Blogging

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On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.

From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.

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This is our last submission in this Paris After Dark series, so starting tomorrow we are back to just the morning OTR for awhile.

frosty

After our tour on Normandy in 2014, we took a day trip to Mont Ste Michel, then headed back to Paris. On the way we stopped in Giverny for a few hours.

I’m a bit fuzzy on which part of the site these pictures were taken – the captions are my best guess. They are all from early August that year and they were all taken by my wife who has a better eye, not me.

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August 4, 2014

Monet’s house and garden

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August 4, 2014

Garden and walkway in front of the house

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August 4, 2014

Garden

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August 4, 2014

Garden from further away, house in the background.

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August 4, 2014

Pond

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August 4, 2014

Pond from the bridge that Monet painted.

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August 4, 2014

Pond and water lillies.

On The Road - frosty - Giverny
August 4, 2014

Pond and water lillies.

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  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    June 29, 2021 at 10:10 pm

    I love that first view of the pond!  Are there a bunch of different ponds?  Or different perspectives of the same pond?

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    Lapassionara

    June 29, 2021 at 10:14 pm

    @WaterGirl: I think they are different views of the same pond. I really enjoy seeing the photos in this series. Thank you, WaterGirl.

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    WaterGirl

    June 29, 2021 at 10:18 pm

    @Lapassionara: You are most welcome!  I enjoy them, too.

    I should add a note up top reminding people that this is the last of the Paris photos that were in the queue.

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    frosty

    June 29, 2021 at 10:24 pm

    @WaterGirl: Same pond. I liked one of the previous OTRs that told how Monet diverted the local river to make it.

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    SkyBluePink

    June 29, 2021 at 10:37 pm

    So lovely! Great pics!

  6. 6.

    Tehanu

    June 29, 2021 at 10:47 pm

    Really nice (especially after the somewhat aggravating day I’ve had). Thanks.

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    danielx

    June 29, 2021 at 11:03 pm

    Totally beautiful….

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    Uncle Omar

    June 29, 2021 at 11:26 pm

    Mrs. Omar and I were in France for a week in 2015.  One of our excursions was to the D-Day Beaches in Normandy.  The most moving moment of that trip, or any other I have ever taken, was the stroll through the cemetery where the United States servicemen who were killed by the Nazis during the D-Day invasion and Normandy Campaign are buried.  It seems as though the white crosses and Stars of David go on forever in that field.  Those men could not have died to allow the modern day descendants of the Nazis to take over the United States as they daily attempt to do.  If for no other reason than the memories of those dead heroes, the current bastards must be stopped.

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    randy khan

    June 30, 2021 at 12:33 am

    @Uncle Omar:

    During one of our trips to France, as we were driving from Nancy back to Paris on back roads, we came across the WWI American cemetery at St. Mihiel, where about 4,000 soldiers are buried.  It was quite moving – when you go somewhere like that, it’s hard not to think of the sacrifices made and what they mean to your own life.

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    evodevo

    June 30, 2021 at 6:29 am

    My sister and I were in Giverny in 2004, I think…we loved all of it. I’ve still got a souvenir, an umbrella I bought there with Monet flowers all over it. You can go in his atelier, too, which is next to the house. We really liked the pond with the bridge – gave a good view of the water lilies…a good perspective on his painting subjects…

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    Anonymous At Work

    June 30, 2021 at 9:14 am

    I found this quote about the American Cemetery and it’s stuck with me:

    “There’s a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn’t a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.” — Barbara Kingsolver

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    Anonymous At Work

    June 30, 2021 at 9:16 am

    A striking feature about the gardens here is that the French style of gardening traditionally emphasized sharp lines, geometric shapes, and above all control over the garden.  This is anything but.

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    J R in WV

    June 30, 2021 at 10:48 am

    Great photos of a world famous (for GOOD reason) garden.

    I got to see quite a few paintings of the garden by the man himself, they are splendid also. Hope to see the gardens someday.

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