Beach police? Seriously? The FBI wasn’t invented yet. But bureaucrats were alive and kicking. I wonder whether this beach is on the Potomac, in D.C. See the obelisk in the background? (Source unknown)
Beers of the world series. Colombia, a while back.
Loos of the world series. Tandoor restaurant, Mexico city. Last time we had a delicious chikken tikka masala… I believe the puppet comes from Rajahstan…
Press of the world series. #1. 😉
View from lockdown. Some time in May.
Motherly love. Tlalpan. ‘Had seen them before, driving. No good shot then.
“The profile of a triumphant (woman)”. Early 70’s. Mexico. (Used that magazine a while back in a focus group for projective techniques.)
Lockdown. Tlalpan. Seems they’ve been under lock and key since the 18th century. (I know bars on windows can be shocking to some. Here it is normal)
Street art to promote reading. Commissioned by City Hall.
Vintage. (c)ourtesy Gini. I had an Instamatic for photographs as a child. Didn’t know there were Instamatic movie cameras. 8mm I presume?
Fly, fly… Looking for an entrance to the U. for an out-of-lockdown picnic… All but one entrances were closed…
The Bodhisattva Maitreya. Bodhisattva is a Sanskrit word meaning Beings (Sattva) who have reached the stage of Awakening (Bodhi). Let us remember Gautama Sidharta was a Nepalese prince who became Buddha (Awake). Buddhism now associated with Asia was “born” in India. Maitreya means the “Future Buddha.”
This head from the Musée Guimet in Paris is of particular interest because of its origin and style. It was done in Gandhara, in today’s Pakistan around the 1st-3rd century AD. The style comes from the Greek sculptors Alexander the great brought with him to the Indus Valley.
Breton costumes. My ancestors wore similar costumes up to the beginning of the 20th century. Precisely up to WWI, when Bretons were drafted “en masse”. About 130-140,000 were killed in action out of 350,000 drafted. I’ve already mentioned my grandfather’s many brothers and relations who didn’t make it home.
Minette, in Paris, c.1971. Born in Nairobi, she spent many years of her life traveling with my parents to and fro.
Butterfly in the garden. In some Asian traditions they carry the soul of a dearly departed.
Mexican rhino. That workshop does lineo printing. I’ve had a mind to try my luck once all this nonsense is over… (Next year?) (The following?) 😩
Colours (before)
Rain (after). (c) Kasuki Wakasugi, the Yomiyuri Shibun, via AFP. The next picture source is unknown (c) Le Point:
1945. The war is over. Two-piece suits will lead the way to bikinis.
Hurray! The Beach police is gone.
Thank you for traveling on Equinoxio Airways the only Time-Space shuttle still flying. The Beach Po-leeece ain’t allowed on board. Stay safe…
Equinoxio 
The VW on the VW is so cute and I love the butterfly.
Yeeees! I’d seen them before when we we were both driving. No possible good shot. Then I saw them parked as we were taking a walk with 😷 in the neighbourhood. Perfect. 👌
And the butterfly was quite beautiful.
Todo bien amiga? 🙏🏻
Estas bien. Y tu?
Ahi vamos. Acabo de ver las cifras de Mexico que no había visto in a while. Daunting.
Oh no!!!
Pos si. Estamos (todos) un poco mal… Ni modo…
Sigh…
Pero…
Como dice el dicho:
No hay que dure cien años…
(Ni cuerpo que lo agüante…)
🤣
Ojala que……
Love the fashions. But the comment about the Asian tradition that butterflies carry the souls of the dead interested me the most because of how it is reflected in the Dia de los muertos celebrations with the monarchs.
I’d forgotten about the Monarchs, but you’re right. There are many traditions shared with China/Asia. The Chinese Ghost month is clearly related to the Day of the Dead here. Since the last migrants from Asia crossed the Bering strait 12,000 years ago, it tells us how the tradition is… 🦋
Very ancient traditions. The amateur archeologist in me likes to keep track of these continuities.
I’m with you. The Chinese dragon and Quetzalcoatl are one and the same.
Love the pictures!
Any idea Equinoxio how I could paint a street mural in my town?
Where would I begin to get permission to paint on a building?
Thank you… er… I have no idea… Depends which town you live in. In the world of the “South” there aren’t many rules. It’s of course easier to paint an abandoned wall. You don’t get the owner shooting at you! In other, more law-abiding places, city hall handles it, I guess?
You’re welcome.
I’ll check with my local town hall or maybe my local county coucil office and see what they say.
I’ve seen it happen more and more in my past trips. City commissioned street art.
Best wishes.
Excellent and loads of fun. We need Beach Police. Young wimmin running around half nekkid! What ever next? Where’s my tape measure?
😉
Bless mah soul. Y’are soo raght… As they say South the Mason-Dixon lahne… Have then them wimmin no shame? ’tis bad fer concentray-shion. Go out and measure, mate.
Good to see the Quimper faience standing so well in such wonderfully eclectic company 😉
Absolument. Toute la famille a ses bols Bretons à son nom…
Can you believe I looked for a bowl to my -real- name (Brieuc) in Saint-Brieuc. At the 3rd shop, no dice. I took out my ID and showed it to the store keeper. Couldn’t believe it. He a few calls and directed me to one of his colleagues, 2-3 streets ahead. Enfin!
Glad you liked it my friend.
Hope all is well across the pond? Véran doesn’t seem to have a better handle on the situation than when he began?
I am glad you found one! It would be disheartening to be in Saint-Brieuc and not find one there of all places 😉
The numbers of hospitalisations are now as high as in May although new daily cases are down to 30k. Thankfully, the west has been spared – so far! Stay Safe!!!
C’eût été un comble! 😉
The west and Normandy had been relatively spared in the first wave right? Let’s hope it stays that way…
🙏🏻😷
Oh, and talking of Bodhisattva ….
Steely Dan, now? You are a man of taste… (never doubted it a minute…) You have a Fender or a Gibson, or did I dream that?) Listening to it right now. A very good piece of 🎸. Thank you.
Fender.
A man of taste like I said. Be good my friend. World’s going mad.
Tears for Fears made the same observation.
Thanks a mil, for calling my attention to them. Just listened/watched the song. Somehow, I missed Tears for fears in the 80’s… weird… 🎵
What fun! I love the kitty…she looks so beautiful and sweet. Another happy and colorful post, from past to present. I can’t even imagine what the beach police would do today with thongs. OMG Hahahah. 🙂 Have a great day. Thank you for this.
Pleasure Gigi. Thongs? They’d have a fit. Which does show we have progressed. A tad…
And we do need happy posts don’t we?
As for MInette, she was a darling tabby cat, we brought back from Kenya. She adapted well. 🐱
Merci bien, Brieuc. Je souhaite qu’un grand papillon soit en train de voleter du côté de Conflans, tranquillement, en regardant ce monde avec une neutre compassion.
Merci pour le sourire et la légèreté et un doux après-midi à toi.
Oui. Conflans… Pour moi ce n’était qu’un bouchon, un embouteillage sur la route de Normandie pour les vacances… Je ne sais plus que souhaiter à ce monde au bord de l’abîme…
Prends bien soin de toi et des tiens Gilles…
Thank you Brian for Time-Space shuttle…imagine…the world is feeling strange indeed…fun to stop by and have a giggle thank you ~ hugs hedy ☺️🙋♀️💫
Glad for the giggle. It’s always good to make a friend laugh… 🤣💕
Can’t help but think that swim suit inspector must have enjoyed his job a little too much. Was there ever such a thing in places which are now topless I wonder?
I agree. He seemed to enjoy it. Similar things happened in the early 20th century when women started going to the beach. But I don’t think there ever was a “metric” put in place… 🤣
Thoroughly enjoyed the journey, including the old photos and the nuggets of insight into your story. The first maybe my favourite, though I find myself captivated by the feline charm of Minette too. 🙂
My own definition of my “pot-pourri” does include personal tidbits indeed… Minette was a lovely cat, but the beach police had to open the sequence…
A very enjoyable pot-pourri. I quite like the Bodhisattva Maitreya. I’d love to be that serene.
Thank you Liz. Glad you liked it. I too would like to approach that serenity. Which is difficult in the current environment… I really wanted to go back to Asia after our 2017 trip, precisely for that. A certain approach to serenity… Well. It will have to wait. 🙏🏻
You’re welcome, Brian. There are a lot of things that will now have to wait, alas.
I do love your humour. No Aussie beer I note! (Gasp). I think there are always elements of policing lurking in us, the things we want to control, alcohol would be one example. Dress codes another. Moralising is a hobby for some. Yes, thank goodness the beach police have gone. 🙂 I especially like your view.
Thank you Paul. I had to look back at the post. ‘wasn’t conscious of so much “humour”. 😉 Though it is possibly the one thing that will keep us sane in the end…
My most abject apologies for the lack of Australian beer on that board. I will have a word with the manager when I manage to board a plane again (to Colombia)
You are absolutely right. As a “child” of the (French) revolution, I find Freedom is THE most important thing for humanity. It means Freedom of speech (First Amendment) Freedom of thought. Above all. As long as I do not affect you, do not tell me what to do. There is a saying in French (a bit rough) which I will translate as “mind your own business. I mind mine…”
Got me in trouble when I was in the Army. My Captain could not understand that I would obey all orders, yet, if I thought the order was stupid, I would say so. He didn’t like it… 🤣
One of the greatest dangers today is precisely that: a bunch of people on all sides are trying to tell everybody how they should think. (I have names) and that in my book (and I suspect yours?) is unacceptable…
Be good my friend.
(You just made me long for an Aussie beer… never tried them.)
(Gimme a ticket for an airplane… ain’t got time to take no fast train…)
🙏🏻
I like that saying very much. Ah, the Aussie beer, crisp and clean, great for days over 20c 🙂
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Every picture tells a story.
Salamat Arlene! It does… That’s exactly what I’m trying to do with those “pot-pourri”. 🙏🏻
Such an eclectic assortment of photos tonight! I love the butterfly, as well as your view from your home. A welcome respite … thanks, Brian!
Pleasure Jill… 👍🏻
amazing shots! I so miss junk food! It feels like ages ago when I indulged myself in biriyani and chicken masala from restaurant! bwa ha ha! Heaven only knows when we will be able to eat junk food in peace again!
that puppet appears to be from Rajasthan, its dress is like rajasthani prints.
Biryani and Chicken Masala are “junk food”? Come on?
We had curry today… With mango chutney…
and thanks for the confirmation, the puppet does look like Rajasthani… (Yet the owners are pakistani, originally form Dacca…)
Phir milenge Trisha.
Darn those beach police bureaucrats!!
LOL. Such a nuisance, right?
Yeah!!!!!
Bon week-end Lumi.
A toi aussi!
Hello, Peng Yu! In my culture, it is the moth that carries the dearly departed, not the butterflies. When we see moths (especially the big black ones) at someone’s house, we know that there is a passing in the family.
Strangely enough the same goes in Mexico with moth, especially the big black ones. I heard the butterflies (Wu Deep?) from a Hong Kong friend… Maybe there are variations?
I think there may be variations to the myth.
Myths are carried through for mouth to ear and are modified ever so slightly. Lévi-Strauss studied the myths of native America from Britu¡ish Colombia to the extreme South and concluded all myths are the same story with variation. e.g. in one area it is the butterfly, in another it is the moth. Colour and details may vary but it is the same story… 🦋
Wow. Thank you for sharing this info with me, Peng Yu.
Pleasure, mon amie… (Though I have an MBA, I did dabble a bit in anthropology…) 😉
And the study of human myths has always fascinated me…
You must be asleep now… Have a wonderful week ahead… 🙏🏻
Ah, then Peng Yu, you must be a fan of Greek mythology?
Very much so, my dear Kally. I read a book on the subject when I was maybe 12. Fascinating. Plus the fact that the Greeks were the first, around 6th century BC to question myths as an “explanation” of the world.
Do you like Greek mythology?
Another great trip around the world! The loving mother VW and her Baby are really cute …
I was wondering about the leg measuring guy, I mean, he must have felt like an idiot, right? He should have …
The butterfly you are showing looks like “Schwalbenschwanz”, which allegedly also lives in Europe. I have only ever seen it once when I was 8 years old in the former Yugoslavia though. It is such a beauty!
There are lots of idiots everywhere paid a salary for doing stupid stuff… 😉
Schwalben… you are so right. Just looked it up. It’s a “machaon”. And can also be found in Europe. Though I never saw one in France for instance…
A very pretty “papillon”. 🦋
So true, so true! 😀
I think the machaones enjoy sun and warmth. The one I saw was at the coast near Dubrovnik what is now Croatia. A lot of butterflies disappear because of air pollution and other pollution. The Cumberwell beauty or mourning cloak for example, I have only seen on Bornholm and Læsø (a small island far out at sea) the last two decades.
A pretty butterfly. Never seen it either… Viel dank.
Police is onto all humanity now. How many pieces will there be left of us when/if all this charade will be over? A two-piecer out of a hundred (percent)…?
I enjoyed Arkenaten’s music.
And Minette is always a winner.
“O bere, vă rog”, in Romanian.
I’m afraid we’ll have to make a jigsaw with all the pieces…
Enjoyed Ark’s music too…
O bere…?
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We should’ve done that long ago. Too bad most important pieces are… ocult(ed).
Thanks for the beer. 🙂
Prosit!
And yes, you are right, some pieces are hidden. The major one is corruption, on a massive scale. I may retake a work I did ten years ago on corruption and development…
Will let you know.
Take care, Man.
Everything’s so tightly intertwined that one cannot expose one piece, even the tiniest of them, without detailing everything – and one should obviously know everything in order to do that. And most importantly have proof. Incidentally I just watched Conspiracy theory (1997) last night, and one good line was about the fact that a good conspiracy can never be proven. 😉
Good luck though! 🙂
“can never be proven”. That’s a good one… Cheers Dragos.
Ca c’est du pot-pourri (pas trop pourri!!).
Merci. C’est pour moi toujours un grand plaisir de faire un pot-pourri. C’est un de mes posts les plus faciles… et agréables…
Bonne fin de semaine.
En 100 ans, les choses ont quand même évolué. J’imagine la tête de la police de plage, si elle débarquait aujourd’hui, sur nos plages. 🙂
Et la Volkswagen : J’adore ! 😀
Encore un bel article ! Merci Brieux
Prends soin de toi.
Oui on peut les imaginer courant partout… De fait, le gendarme à Saint-Tropez c’était un peu ça…
Pas de quoi Mélie.
Biz
biz aussi
Great set of photos ~ the diversity of life. Love the opening shot, in a sense not much has changed when it comes to bureaucracy. And then the second photo, yes, one of the first two words I learned in Czech: Pivo, prosím 🙂
Indeed. Coming back I commented that to a friend who speaks Russian: ‘piva’… And to the left of that second photo, Poles say: “Peev” = pivo. And ‘proshe’ = ‘prosím’…
Hey! We can survive in Poland! Da!
Ha, ha, Poland is very nice too, beautiful cities, countryside and people and they get along with Czech’s quite well, and there is always nice vodka for good conversations!
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Love these pot-pourris posts!
Merci. C’est sympa à faire… 🙏🏻
Minette! Funny, I thought of her just yesterday 😊
You don’t say? You did fall in love with her, right? Another name for her would be Mpaka (Cat in Swahili)
Mpaka sounds so mysteriously. She might go under the name in the spheres over the Rainbow bridge.
Mpaka mzuri sana she was. A very nice cat.
❤
Purr. 😺
A great rundown. The beer poster took me some time. I was trying to determine why in some languages the pronunciation was given, and in others not so. I was really happy to see Slovene included, even though the correct spelling would be Eno pivo, prosim. Interesting to see prosim broken down into pro+seem though. And funny to see pee in it, hahah.
Pivo as in Czech? Or piva in Russian? Hey! I now know a Slovene word. Hope all is well?
Slovenians say pivo, in some dialects can be piva. Slovenians have so many dialects for such a small country. All well but Tuscany turning red tomorrow… Devil took the joke away, says a Croatian (or Serbian?) proverb.
Dobri den manja. (That’s Czech. 😉) At least I know one key word in Slavic languages. Pivo or piva whatever, as along as it’s cold. 🍻
Sorry about turning red. I assume it means lockdown?
There are many Devil jokes everywhere. Here the saying goes: The Devil knows more because he is old than because he is the devil.
Stay safe.
Brilliant. Better the devil I know. 🙂
All good, but nothing beats the beach police! 🙂
Indeed. 🤣 Only a century ago…
Goodness, the ‘beach police’ lol 😊 I bet everyone would get arrested these days 🏖
Fun isn’t it? One does not realize today the revolution women went through in the early 20th century. I have photos of my grandmother c.1905, long dress and sleeves. Corset most likely, her hair coiffed up in an elaborate hairdo not to mention the hats! (The same the Queen still wears). Then around 1915-1918, she and most women cut their dresses to the knee and their hair below the ear. I have those photos too. an amzing transformation.
Just one more point: Oxford did not deliver degrees to women until 1923…
It’s fascinating how much the world has changed (and still changing – maybe even more quickly these days)….a little modesty never hurts. 😊
On another note – I hope all is well and you are not affected by all the power cuts at the moment. 🙏
Modesty never hurts. Particularly in a time of widespread Hubris…
My father (born in 1918) remembered when his grandmother had electricity installed in her house in Brittany. c.1930. She liked gas much better. Said the electricity was too bright. Hurt her eyes.
We’re fine thank you. No power cuts here. (Mexico, not Brittany) 💡
Glad to here all is well over there 😊 Your mum was right though – even today, electricity can be a bit too bright – like awful harsh lighting in some offices, giveing people headaches!
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