Month: June 2023

Love Locks IV

by Ebb Then Flood
Sacre-Coeur Basilica, Paris

‘Love Locks IV’

Following on from the previous three posts, the padlocks of conspicuous ardour continue to multiply.

Parisians, and visitors to Paris, clamp their metallic love tokens en masse to the fences on the stairs leading up to the grand cathedral of Montmartre.

It’s seemingly endless, as love is supposed is to be. I sort of wonder though how many of the locks have survived the relationships they signify!

Or I can take more positive view and just be glad of actual signs of love in a world that can always do with more love…

For You, 60!

by Ebb Then Flood

‘For You, 60!’

An old friend of mine turned sixty today.

With an underlying message of “onwards and upwards”, I sent this image to her.

It shows the rear of the rather splendid Sacre-Coeur Basilica in Paris, where I had visited recently and my friend had also gone a few years ago.

I love the way the tower catches the light and emerges from the shadowed mass of the lower parts of the structure, pointing to the heavens. Clouds drift by the building’s static lines; time moves on.

I used a standard Apple filter to make this phone pic “pop” a little, but, hey, it is a birthday celebration after all!

Onwards and upwards!