Le plat pays by caterina

Le plat pays

Avec un ciel si bas qu'un canal s'est perdu
Avec un ciel si bas qu'il fait l'humilité
Avec un ciel si gris qu'un canal s'est pendu
Avec un ciel si gris qu'il faut lui pardonner

Jacque Brel composed this song for Belgium, but it fits perfectly to the Po Delta, where the first fog comes already in mid October
I took a photo like this once. And I've been walking around in a fog ever since. Looks like you are about to be engulfed by a fog. Good thing you took this lovely photo before that could happen. Was this taken near where you live?
October 11th, 2017  
200 metes from where I (still) work
October 11th, 2017  
Another rather haunting image Caterina. I'd love to photograph fog, but like the snow in winter, we really ever get any :( Excellent image :)
October 11th, 2017  
Evocative and beautiful.
October 11th, 2017  
@gazzatron @paul10 Thank you. I really appreciate your comments
October 11th, 2017  
Very apt poem. I have to say I didn't think you got fog in Italy!
October 11th, 2017  
So you see! All the Po valley can be foggy at time, but some areas more than others. Ferrara where I work, and Pavia where I went to Medical School are particularly foggy in autumn. Now much less than in the past.
October 11th, 2017  
@peadar see above. But have you seen the bird flying over the canal? It wasn't far but it's almost invisible.
October 11th, 2017  
@caterina Yes, I see it. Nicely done.
October 11th, 2017  
@peadar thank you. But I wasn't fishing for compliments!
October 11th, 2017  
A lovely atmospheric capture
October 12th, 2017  
Nice poem to go along with the pic!
October 18th, 2017  
@stimuloog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzeZcdW4Pbo Just in case you have forgotten. I love this song.
October 18th, 2017  
@caterina Thanks, Caterina. I love it too :-)
October 18th, 2017  
Love this view, love the song. Fav.
October 27th, 2017  
He made the song for Vlaanderen, a part of Belium very much the same I live in, and bordered to it. ( He know as he recorded it also in the Dutch language. )
October 27th, 2017  
@pyrrhula Thank you. I love all the songs of Jacque Brel. Interesting to hear that you live near the plat pays. Thank you for your fav
October 27th, 2017  
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