Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]How wonderful that we can see where each of us lives on the other side of the world!! Your's looks quiet and rural. Here is mine: https://www.google.com/maps/place/2540+Black+Hwy,+York,+SC+29745/@35.0321932,-81.3066328,1032m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x8856f057d3bc3915:0x805612aacde3ca81!8m2!3d35.035096!4d-81.304412 The cluster of red roofs is our farm. We moved the farmhouse off of the highway back to the pond. Still a work in progress. We have 63 acres of woods and 3 large pastures. Tina On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 1:25 AM Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Thank you all for viewing and commenting > > Douglas : my village is called La Petite Pierre ( Little Stone in French). > In the local dialect it goes by the name of Lutzelstein (very close to old > English as it goes). Mungg is a joke. I nicknamed our new to us house > Mungg, with reference to a Swiss lodge in a Swiss village we used to go a > lot to, before buying our own Mungg (which means Marmot in the Swiss > dialect over there). > > No serious battles here, even if General Leclerc?s 2nd Armoured Division > stopped there for the night on their way to free Strasbourg (WWII). The > Ligne Maginot is a bit further north. And Germany about 50km from there. > > The city was fortified indeed, under Louis XIVth rule, by Vauban who was > the leading engineer. And then again by Napoleon, etc. > > Here?s an attempt to copy the address in Google view. Our house should be > in the top left corner, next to the 135 yellow label, along the Route de > Zittersheim. Meadows on one side, forest on the other one, downhill for a > few km and the next village. > > https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8550328,7.3193726,861a,35y,11.56h,44.77t/data=!3m1!1e3 > < > https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8550328,7.3193726,861a,35y,11.56h,44.77t/data=!3m1!1e3 > > > > Thanks again > > AMities > Philippe > > > > Le 13 nov. 2018 ? 22:56, Douglas Barry via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a > ?crit : > > > > Very poignant, Philippe - torn between two countries. It's a lose lose > situation whichever way you turn. Several of my relatives served in the > British forces during WW1, but then they returned home and fought for Irish > independence. > > > > Your village - Mungg? - was it on the front line? I ask as I see rising > ground with trees on it in a couple of the images that remind me of > abandoned fortifications? > > > > Douglas > > Douglas Barry > > Monkstown, > > Co. Dublin > > > > ________________________________ > > From: LUG <lug-bounces+douglasb50=hotmail.com at leica-users.org> on > behalf of Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > > Sent: Monday 12 November 2018 20:48 > > To: Leica Users Group; leicareflex at freelists.org; Olympus Camera > Discussion > > Cc: Philippe > > Subject: [Leica] IMG: WWI celebrations in rural France > > > > As you may know, I now live in a small village in Alsace. This area was > German in 1914, and turned French in 1918 as it was before 1870 ... > > > > Local people there were then forced to join the German troops, or flee, > and get enrolled on the French side only to fight their brothers or cousins > ? > > > > The 360 souls village lost 37 young men between 1914 and 1918. > > > > Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the end of that war, and I > witnessed the local celebrations and hommage. > > No, it did NOT rain ... > > > > The series starts here: > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Playground/LPP-11-11-2018-1528.jpg.html > > > > Click on the right arrow to proceed to the end. > > > > All my be viewed larger. > > > > > > Amities, and may peace be with us all, fovever. > > > > > > Philippe > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley <http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html>