OCOLOY Day 281: Just off the High Street!

Many (most?) of the towns in Brittany are at least two to three hundred years old and some considerably older. They have, of course, changed with the times in order to survive and so it is with the adjacent town of Mauron that I took a stroll through today. The main street is lined with modern shop-fronts but occasionally two otherwise adjacent shops are separated by a pair of stout wooden gates, resolutely closed.

Today however, alerted by a white cat which chased across the road in front of me and then promptly disappeared, I noticed that one of a pair of these gates was slightly ajar. I peered through knowing exactly what I was going to see and, sure enough, I was immediately transported back in time to a medieval courtyard that won't have changed much in three or four hundred years.

I love these little monuments to the permanence and durability of human life and civilisation.

As usual, the image is SOOC and is part of my ongoing OCOLOY project - you can read more about it in my profile.

The shadow detail pops more viewed on black!

[Joanne Diochon]

Really like this, the light and the internal framing.

[Walks @ 7]

Bravo for following the cat's lead. This is so lost in time and so many marvelous parts to explore. Fav!

[Gosia]

Great B&W

[Tom]

Wonderfully evocative

[Lynne]

Wonderful

[Maggiemae]

I think the guys on horseback would have had to bend to get through this opening! Its very empty and abandoned looking!

[gloria jones]

Great framing and capture of this historical area

[Lynda]

Wonderful find and capture. You can just imagine what is around the corner.

[Kathy]

How interesting. Hard to believe there are useful parts of buildings on the other side of the windowless holes and deteriorating bricks.

[Denise (lyndemc)]

You've captured what sounds like a closely guarded secret. I admit being curious about what's further on back and around the corner.

[Louis A. Sousa]

Wonderful, and you did not get pinched by the coppers!

[Robert Barr]

Lovely image. It was your lucky day.

[Dianne]

This is a neat little find.

[Rosie Kerr]

This speaks volumes, across time. Love how the lines of the stone bend under the window, especially.

[Dyan Stevens]

Excellent. Love the framing and textures.

[Margo Sayer]

Agree with all above and delighted to have this glimpse of yesteryear.

[Debs Stott]

Fav, just for the air of mystery and history.

[Joan Robillard]

A gate back into time, what a neat thought. Wonderful old buildings

[Shady]

Super shot Richard. Fav

[Ivan]

Great view through, Richard, looks so old! fav

[Jasper]

Emblematic of your photography - opening up Brittany's secrets for us.

[Morgane]

this photo makes me want to move forward, beautiful light and lovely view

[David]

Oh I missed this one, Richard... a subject after my own heart as well! You have carefully made sure we can see detail in all of it... unlike some of us!