Great Mosque

The Great Mosque of Paris, located in the 5th arrondissement, is a wonderful place to visit. It had been quite some time since I first wanted to have a look at its buildings, when I just happened to be very near the place with some free time - a perfect opportunity!

Mosaic garden

Sculpted wood library

Mosaic pool

Pink flowers

Ornamented columns

Merry Christmas!

A touch of red to wish everyone a merry Christmas!

Red berries

Red twins

Toy snail

A very funny recent purchase of mine, a little toy snail I really enjoy playing with - especially doing photo sessions in the most creative places (at least for a snail...) :-)

Catch the light

Tree journey

Night lights

A lovely contrast between the dark blue sky and the bright orange-yellow street lights of varied shapes :-)

Disk of light

Light through the leaves

Stripes of light

Winter flowers

Not the best season to take pictures of flowers... So I am delighted to have found some :-)

Pink flower

White flower

Hundreds of little fingers

Last autumn vibes

Autumn is truly a wonderful season with all its color combinations... I'm quite sad every year to enter the winter season - it is usually so rainy starting from November, even though it is not too cold :-(

Misty day

Little robin

Fall colors and evening light

Special mushrooms

A series of interestingly shaped mushrooms! ...Even though I love all mushrooms without discrimination :-)

Curled up

Scales

Spores hole

Fly amanita

This mushroom is to me the highest reward during my mushroom-hunting strolls in the forest :-)

 

With its bright red color and relative rareness, it is truly a wonderful moment to be able to spot one at last... They usually (as most mushrooms I guess) appear again where they did the previous year, so I will know where to find some next autumn!

Half-eaten cap

Small fly agaric

Fly amanita

St-Germain-en-Laye

A trip to the pretty castle and forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, a place where I hadn't been for quite some time, but remembered as a very nice stroll... And I wasn't disappointed this time again :-)

Misty view in the morning

Castle in fall

Fall colors

Autumn leaves

The beautiful colors of leaves in Autumn :-)

Leaves

Autumn leaves

Fall forest

From above

I love taking pictures of mushrooms from their cap, creating a (not always regular) circle surrounded by the beautifully colored autumn leaves :-)

Ribbed cap

Accordion cap

Slimy yet satisfying

Scales

Some young mushrooms with little scales, of varying colors...

Purple and green

Little white mushroom

Scales

Hole in the dome

Bolete

Very easy to identify thanks to their spongy cap with pores instead of gills!

Spongy mushroom

Big mushroom

Fallen bolete

Yellow mushrooms

Some yellow-colored mushrooms - such a beautiful color in the woods!

Tree mushroom

Yellow flower-shape mushroom

Bright color

Yellow and white

Mushroom collection

Some bunch of mushrooms, holding tight together :-)

Collection of shells

Little cluster

Companions

Magpie inkcap

The different stages of the magpie inkcap (Coprinopsis picacea), one of my favorite mushrooms :-)

Young mushroom

A little taller

Slightly eaten

Disappearance