Thursday, April 03, 2008

la mer

la mer

La mer
Qu'on voit danser le long des golfes clairs....
--Charles Trenet (but in my case, Mr. Bean's Holiday)

Nikon D70 18-200mm VR at 1/180s, f/16
an archway at the Dallas Arboretum, Texas

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Trenet wrote the lyrics of "La Mer" on the train in 1943 while travelling along the French Mediterranean coast, returning from Paris to Narbonne, supposedly in ten minutes, on toilet paper supplied by SNCF.