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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We’ve enjoyed the solar eclipse from home. Fantastic!!

The solar eclipse, at around 90 %.
Taken from southwest of France.

At home, some beautiful shadows during the solar eclipse.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

From home, 7h30 pm. Alt👇

A deep orange sun glows through dark clouds over Touvre, France.
7:30 p.m. The sky is tinted an unusual amber colour, due to the thick smoke drifting from the massive and out of control wildfires currently devastating parts of Gironde.
Eerie and dramatic atmosphere.
Highly polluted air. Heavy smell of burned pines.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Unfortunately, the page can’t load.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

New GOP logo just dropped.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Happy #SuperbOwlSunday! Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍 From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC. Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a roughly square-shaped piece of limestone with a relief carving depicting a front facing owl on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This relief represents the ancient Egyptian owl hieroglyph ‘m’.

Limestone plaque dimensions H. 10.3 x W. 11.1 x D. 2.5 cm

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Nice out the back

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

A very interesting read. Thank you.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

For Christmas this year, all the Aloe arborescens are flowering. We are in the southwest of France. Yes, climate is changing, fast.

The 60-80 cm racy inflorescence of the Aloe arborescens is erected and simple. The raceme is conical 20-30 cm by 10-12 cm in diameter, bearing many yellow/orange flowers.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Église Saint-Gervais, Paris. Seen from the Memorial Garden for the terrorist attacks on November 13th, 2015.

The façade of the Saint-Gervais church in Paris is a fine example of early 17th-century French classicism.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

@astrolabe-science.fr I took this photo for you ! I wish you a wonderful Christmas Day.

On the mansion by the master watchmaker, Alphonse Blanc made in 1840, a very beautiful meridian of Average time, with a pierced disc, and analemma. The meridians of Paris and Turin are engraved on it. At that time, Savoy was not yet attached to France. The oblique lines are aligned with the signs of the Zodiacs where the sun enters the sign with the date of the 1st day of the month. A disc with eyelet was welded to an arrow supported by a foot decorated with stars.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

The nave of Chambéry Cathedral, Savoie, France. 15th century, flamboyant gothic style.

The cathedral houses the largest set of trompe-l'oeil paintings in Europe (nearly 6,000 m2).

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The future has flown away My son has left To embrace the vast sky Pierre-Louis, 1991-2025

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Paris. Église Saint-Etienne-du-Mont. The rood screen. (Alt for details).

Despite a construction of the choir, then of the nave, spread over about thirty years, the architecture of the building offers a remarkable uniformity, clearly visible at the level of the piles and the vault. The Gothic architectural style is enriched with a Renaissance ornamentation, in a very harmonious marriage.

A magnificent jube (rood screen), the only one left in Paris, cuts the building in two. Architectural and artistic feat, its design dates from the early 1530s.

The tribune, nine meters long, is supported by a basket-ended vault that culminates at four meters.

A typical ornamentation of the early Renaissance (the écoinçons) is combined with the classical Gothic style of the railing and stairs, a style not without a Mooorish influence.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Paris. Église Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, built from 1492 to 1626. Here, the nave-transept crossing. (Alt for details)

The nave-transept crossing is one of the masterpieces of this church, built around 1584-1586.

This vault is a magnificent example of the transition from late Gothic to Renaissance style. The thirds that divide the space are gothic, as are the hanging keys and the openwork discs with fine chisels that furnish these spaces. The other motifs of ornamentation are totally Renaissance.

The artistic fantasy of the whole is typical of the late 16th century.

The central hanging key has a height of 2.40 meters. It is kept in balance almost five meters below the top of the vault thanks to curved links stiffened by an invisible metal reinforcement, present from the origin.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

It was a picnic with a view. West of Paris. 📷 🌞 🍀 🌳

A panoramic photo taken from the edge of a pond.

The various plants and tree species that border this body of water offer a beautiful palette of greens.

The sky is blue with some cumulus clouds reflected in the water.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The garden vista. Lush greens. Peacefulness. 🏡 ⛲️ 🌳 🪴 🫜

The view from the top of our garden, by the terrasse.
On the right is the pond. The left path leads to a pergola, the right path to the arch, which opens onto the orchard.
The vegetable plot is set at the bottom of the land, by the tree line where a river flows.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The swallows have returned in large numbers this week. Such beautiful birds. @manelcamacho.bsky.social

A swallow on an electricity cable, with a clear blue sky

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The dominant color in the garden this week. Spring is an opportunity for the mind. #spring #iris 🌱 💙

At the top center of the photo, a blue iris in full bloom, several others in the background.
At the edge of a pond, the sky is blue with a few small clouds.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

A beautiful visitor while gardening : a female Calopteryx virgo.

The body is blue-green metallic iridescent and the eyes blue-green.

The female has brown and fairly dark iridescent wings, adorned with a small white spot near the end. Its abdomen is blue with a bronze part at the end.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

In the pond of our garden, a happy frog again, this time croaking, in video. 🐸

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Joyeux anniversaire !! Here are some echinoids with spines (Acrosalenia hemicidaroides), middle Jurassic. From Landaville, Vosges, France.

A slab show some fossilised Echinoids their spines.
One of the echinoids has his Aristoteles lantern.
The slab is 22 x 12 cm.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

The Euphorbia myrsinites is a feast for some polistes. ☀️ 🐝 🌸

A poliste feasting on the flowers of an Euphorbia myrsinites.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

We have some very happy (and very noisy) frogs in the pond. And hundreds of tadpoles. ☀️ 🐸

A female green frog sunbathing in a pond.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Spring starts here when my Euphorbia myrsinites is in bloom. Lush greens 💚

The center of a flowerbed in my courtyard shows in the foreground a flowering Euphorbia myrsinites. Just behind, with a disc of white marble pebbles at its base, my first homemade bonsai. All around are different succulents.

The different and rich shades of green, together, are visually attractive.

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

🕰️Sunday Read is a Genius Loci Digest Special Edition - The Ultimate Guide to Time Travel - 10 Places that slow down time... ✨a #thread to counteract difficult times✨Please share it if it helps you...🪄 - but less of that and more of this..

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The ballet of the cranes. Elegance and endurance.

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Jean-François Cudennec @limpetnerd.eurosky.social · 12/02/2025

Happy 216th birthday to Charles Darwin ! 🎂🎉

The famous photo of Charles Darwin with the caption « Viva la evolution »

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The first poem was written 44 years ago. The text in English is the translation of the French one, also here. (It is not always sad).

A DAY WITHOUT JOY

There are days when we want to be underground And not to be in love with a star
There are days when the sun is sad And the coffee bitter
There are days that we would like to scratch And that we would like to end
There are days we would like to see after Like bad nightmares
Erased gummed
There are days when the soup has no taste And life even less
There are days when we would like to be of marble Of wood or of iron
There are days when the night is long to come And sleep too
There are days when the sky is too heavy to carry And our body to support
There are days when the heart weighs
Like a tombstone

February 9th, 2022

UN JOUR SANS JOIE

Il y a des jours où l'on a envie d'être sous terre
Et de ne pas être amoureux d'une étoile
Il y a des jours où le soleil est triste
Et le café amer
Il y a des jours que l'on voudrait rayer
Et que l'on voudrait passés
Il y a des jours que l'on voudrait voir après
Comme mauvais cauchemars
Effacés gommés
Il y a des jours où la soupe n'a pas de goût
Et la vie encore moins
Il y a des jours où l'on voudrait être de marbre
De bois ou de fer
Il y a des jours où la nuit se fait attendre
Et le sommeil aussi
Il y a des jours où le ciel est trop lourd à porter
Et son corps à soutenir
Il y a des jours où le coeur pèse
Comme une pierre tombale

9 février 2022

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I’ve can’t remember to have seen a horizontal sundial before and I don’t have your knowledge, so I’ve knocked at your door. Thank you!

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Pourriez-vous, s’il vous plaît, ajouter un texte descriptif aux photos ? C’est fort utile pour certaines personnes et très instructif pour tout le monde. Merci beaucoup 🙏

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

@astrolabe-science.fr David, please, I’d like to know what you think about this sundial. Thank you! 🙏

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Never heard of this optical phenomena before. I wonder what people in the past would have made of that burst of reflected sun rays.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Je pense savoir : les détritus de Musk… Un peu cryptique, mais laissons d’autres personnes chercher. Bonne journée à vous !

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Everyday I take our dog for a long walk. It is very calming to me. The simple joy of the twitting birds, the sound of a stream, the ever changing light on what nature offers us. This is beauty. Life appears where the gaze stops.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

📹 I offer you few seconds of peacefulness, far away from the world craziness. I so enjoy living where we are. South West of France. 💙 🦋 🏞️ 🦢

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I’ve read the General Theory of Relativity not so long ago. I must have missed something…

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

When dystopian notions are set up before our own eyes, I think, but I'm not a scientist, that this is totally fucked up. What will it take to people to wake up before it’s too late?

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I'm exhausted and this feels like the best option for #FossilFriday this week. This is coprolite. What is coprolite, you ask? It's fossilized feces. It's mineralized, doesn't smell. It's important for science to find pollen or pieces of bone. Also proves you can polish a turd.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The wood texture is nicely visible when you zoom in.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A slightly different angle. The piece is 14 cm/5.51” long and weight 472 grams.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

My first #FossilFriday post! Here is a nice piece of petrified wood I found in the river that originates in our village. Two more photos 👇🧵

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