Happy lily of the valley, comrades!

May 1 in France celebrate jour de muguet - Lily of the valley day.
Lily of the valley is very popular in France. The French believe that on May 1, plants and objects are endowed with special magical properties.
May 1, 1561.
On this day, King Charles IX legitimized the tradition: to give a twig to a lucky woman for happiness.
Since that time, every year, on May 1, lilies of the valley have been given to court ladies. A good start took root.
It was by May 1 in France that a lily-of-the-valley holiday was timed.
They are given to those whom they love or whom they want to love, because it is believed that this flower brings happiness ...
Earlier in France there was a belief that on May 1, plants and objects acquire beneficial magical properties.
The dew collected on May 1 before sunrise was especially appreciated, as it was believed that it softens the skin, prevents skin diseases.




Even in a wedding bouquet and a wreath, the romantic and ever-enamored French prefer the tender-white spring lilies of the valley.
For them, this little flower is a symbol of sincere, tremulous, real love.

As an echo of medieval customs is found in some villages of France, still surviving the custom of celebrating the "holiday of lilies of the valley" every year.
It happens always on the first Sunday in May.





On this day in the afternoon, residents of several neighboring villages gather in the nearest forest behind lilies of the valley. Not only the young, but also the elderly are sent not to leave the youth alone.
The forest is crowded, trying not to diverge in it, and, having typed as many lilies of the valley as possible, return home by night.




The next day, lilies of the valley are decorated with windows, fireplaces and tables in the houses, and lilac flowers are often added to the lilies of the valley. Then they set the tables, put on a snack and invite the youth for breakfast.
Everyone eats, cheerfully chatters, laughs, sings songs in honor of the originator of the holiday - lily of the valley, which is also a symbol of spring, and arranges dances.




That's where lily-of-the-valley begins to play its role. The invitation to dance goes, as always, from the guys, but the girls express their consent not with words, as usual, but with the help of a lily of the valley.



This happens as follows. Guys and girls have each a bunch of lilies of the valley. Girls attach it to the bodice, and the guys - in a buttonhole coat.
When a guy invites a girl to dance, the girl in agreement gives him his bouquet, which he slips into a buttonhole and in turn passes her her, which she pins to the bodice. Once you choose each other, young people no longer part with the whole evening and all the dances dance together.
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Now such a choice expresses only mutual sympathy and is limited only to dances all evening; But in the old days the bouquet of lily-of-the-valley had a much deeper meaning: he expressed in some way the consent of young people to marry, and the evening itself usually ended with the announcement of who is marrying whom to marry and on whom.
If the guy, for example, wanted to show the girl his feelings, then he asked her for a pin and pinned her bouquet on her chest. Refusal to give him a pin meant that the girl did not want to be his wife.
If the guy was proud or shy, then before he asked the girl for a pin, he offered her a bouquet.
The girl who accepted the bouquet and pinned it to her breast, thereby expressed to him her sympathy and her consent to marry him.

To throw a lily of the valley on the ground had a different meaning: it was possible to express and simply the coldness of feelings, and disagreement on marriage, but to step on it with a foot - meant antipathy, disgust and even anger.





An even more remote echo of the medieval custom is the picnics and walks of the inhabitants of the city of Hanover, arranged in the twenties of the last century, into the countryside of Euleride, in which the lilies of the valley grew in such abundance that they formed continuous glades in places.




The charm of the glades strewn with snow, these flowers, and the delicious smell that came from them, as the contemporaries say, did not yield to any description. At the site of the walkers, tents for drinking coffee, majran, lemonade and other soft drinks were broken, as well as tents for smoking and for snacks.
The festival ended, as in the walk-in in France, with dances, among which the so-called German waltz was a favorite.

All roads to the forest were filled in these days with masses of citizens of all ages, who wandered from the early morning to late at night in the forest and gathered lilies of the valley. And no one came home without the huge bouquets of these flowers, which then decorated all the rooms and even the front doors of houses ...

Now the lily of the valley is a favorite flower and Parisians. And on May 1, when the workers, wishing to express their solidarity with the rest of the world's workers, appear with a red carnation in their buttonhole, the rest of Parisians walk adorned with white lilies of the valley as the emblem of the "outpouring of hearts", therefore on May 1st it bears the name of Lily of the Valley in Paris.
On this day, the demand for lilies of the valley is so great that they are brought from the provinces by wagons, not counting the millions of flowers that

Saveliy Fisenko. And this is all - Woman!

A look at the world from under the fields of the cap ...
I'm wearing a hat or a hat in me ..

"The lady in the bonnet does not eat a bagel on the way."
"The lady in the hat does not go with the stringies."
- to the Lady in the hat attached a languid look from under the fields.
"Dama always has a pair of gloves in her hat."
- The lady in the hat does not run across the road even to the green light.
- An experienced car enthusiast does not try to go round Dam to a hat, it's safer to miss.
- The lady in the hat does not pull up pantyhose, because she wears stockings.
- The lady in the hat never drinks beer, well, except by taking off her hat.
- A lady in a hat is ordered cappuccino, if there is a Cavalier with a cane ...
- Taking off all the clothes, Lady remains in the hat.
- when the Lady wants to caress Cavalera, the hat delicately covers everything that she does there ...

Allaia




Fault

For thousands of leagues - in me
Night.
Store
My nervous days.
Catch,
A lonely fisherman,
Constellations
In the gutter.
For thousands of leagues - at the bottom ... -
Off ... -
Gulf of withdrawal symptoms -
As a token,
News
In the handwriting of the Navi.

Is the mist-shore
Feelings? .. -
Love ... -
We are alone today.
Imperishable ... secret - the river
Tosca
I hid everything that is so empty,
Slides on walls and eyelids,
The eyelashes, the yunits, the gods,
Stag, the old and the lines -
Faults,
To the glory of art. -

The title of the years,

Track

The bite ...

Igor Scheulov





In a cage

In a cage. The bird.
Twilight. Muggles.
Stars. Wind...
He rushes. It's curly.
He whistles. It's beating.
Break out! Will you meet?

Cell. The bars.
Wind ... Will ...
Pain! Blood! Feathers!
Scream! Shine. People.
J. Ladoni.
Break out! Believe?

Vasilisa Ivanova




Black Pearl

Whether to let in the soul or just by
Is it easy to walk silently?
Breathe with her by the air invisible
Or cold wind far?

It's sweet, heart touching
Or a carefree thought to grow healthier?
Caress her and, fondly caressing,
Forget and fly desperately?

Turn the foundations, reborn,
All lose and start again?
Nectar is avidly bitter to get drunk,
Do you miss the fresh source?

In the eyes of her frantic and stony,
As in the pool for ever drowning,
Where to regret and remember it is not necessary.
What can not be returned?

Tell yourself: came. Stay.
Understand that there is nowhere else to go ..
She is my ... she is not dreaming anymore
And there is no more way back.

Oleg Daruma




On a silver platter

Pay attention to the symbols in the picture - a saucer with a blue border and a mask!

The phrase "On a silver platter" from the novel "The Golden Calf" (1931) of Soviet writers Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and Yevgeny Petrov (1903-1942).
The words of Ostap Bender, who so wanted to get his million from the Soviet underground millionaire (Part 1, Chapter 2): "I will not strangle him with a pillow or beat him with a blued revolver on the head. And, in general, nothing stupid will not happen. Ah, if only to find the individual! I'll arrange it so that he will bring his money to me, on a silver platter. "

It is likely that in this case the authors ironically rethought the biblical account of Salome, who, for her brilliantly performed dance, demanded that she put the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter.
The allegory of the desire to receive something easily, without effort. After the novel was released into the light, a stable phrase "get (something) on ​​a silver platter" was formed.

What does it mean to serve on a saucer - it does not require special comments, but with a blue border it's not so simple.
It is not excluded that mentioning the blue border, we implicitly appeal to the fulfillment of the blue dream, but
Maybe another explanation.
Pure, sky-blue color on porcelain is extremely rare.
The real blue color is found only in Chinese and Russian porcelain.
The golden rim is a symbol of vulgar pomp, and the blue porcelain is always noble and refined.
And the blue border, together with a saucer included in the proverb, shows that the desired is performed at its best, as it was not dreamed of.

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There is a house in the woods ...

House of the gnome, dwarf - at home!
The wood house is standing in the woods,
The house of a gnome!
And in it there lives a cheerful dwarf,
Gnome houses!
He feeds the squirrels with cones,
At the table he sits with the bears,
With fluffy bunnies
Yes, with mouse-norushkami!
He shares toys
With cuckoo chatters,
With raccoons and woodpeckers,
With an owl, overgrown with patrols!

He shares nuts
With roe deer, with oleshki,
With moles painstaking,
With the Bebriats laughing.
The last winter apple
He shared with the small,
Completely frozen chaffinch!

But fairy tales,
Coloring books,
Long epic poisons,
Little jokes,
Sweet riddles
He shares with the kids,
With the girls, with the boys!

The wood house is standing in the woods,
The house of a gnome!
And in it there lives a cheerful dwarf,
Gnome houses!
Open up, the house is narrow,
Let the gnome come out cheerful!

Yunna Moritz

Santa Claus is the most common secular Christmas symbol on the eve of and during the Christmas holidays.
In Norway, this fairy-tale character is often referred to simply as "nisse."
The word "nisse" comes from the Norwegian name Niels, which, in turn, originated from the name "Nicholas" or "Nikolaus".

Christmas Nissan is a dwarf! Only if in our understanding gnomes are such small dirty people, in Norway they are very kind, they love animals.
In some countries of Scandinavia - Norway, Finland, Sweden - there is a legend about Tomte (Tomte) or Nisse (Nisse) - small creatures, which are something like brownies on farms. It is believed that they help people and in general are very positive, but if the farmer is untidy, and does not support the farm in good condition, then Tomte can shlopotat on the first number. With the spread of Christianity in this region, these gnome-like creatures gradually turned into small santa clauses with appropriate powers.

Modern Tomte, who are called differently, including Jultomte, Julnisse, and Joulupukki, look like Santa Claus, but there are a number of differences. First of all, they are not so well-fed, except that, despite the presence of the team, they do not fly with it, but move on the ground. These Scandinavian Santa Clauses live not at the North Pole, but in the forest nearest to the settlement (each has his own). And they are not engaged in chimneys, that is, they do not fly into the chimney to put gifts in the socks hanging next to them, but simply enter through the door when no one sees.

The height of Nissan is 15 cm, in a red cap with a brush already 25! Wear Nissa knitted in a national-style sweater, vest, pants and shoes.
They have boots with a cunning pattern, so Nyssa leaves bird tracks on the snow.
If in the forest, especially not far from the farm, you see a chain of bird tracks, rest assured - here passed Nissa.
Farmers still at Christmas on the threshold put a plate of rice porridge, they can attach a new cap or sweater.
Let Nyssa also have a holiday, then he will look more often, and the animals will be safe and healthy.

Musée d'Orsay \ Museum of Orsay.

The Musée d'Orsay is a museum of Paris, located on the left bank of the Seine, located in the former railway station - Gare d'Orsay.
And before that, the Court of Accounts, which was destroyed in the times of the Paris Commune, was located here.
In 1898, the Paris-Orleans Railway Company received the architect D'Orsay from the architect Victor Lalou.
The work moved very fast and the new station was ready in time for the opening of the World Exhibition in 1900.

Basically, the museum is dedicated to the French art of 1848 - 1915, represented by paintings, sculptures, furniture and photographs, and is best known for its considerable collection of masterpieces by such Impressionists as Monet, Degas, Renoir and Cezanne.
Before the opening of the Museum in 1986, many of these works were kept in the National Ball Game Gallery (Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume).




Lalu built a huge central nave 135x40 meters, the metal structure of which was skillfully covered from the outside by imitation of marble of light tones.
The station accommodated not only 16 platforms, but also restaurants and a hotel with 400 rooms.
The station's lobby was so luxurious that one artist, as if foreseeing the future, called Orsa "the palace of the arts."
Even the restaurant here looks like a work of art.

Since 1939, the station d'Orsay was abandoned and was experiencing a period of prolonged decline, threatening its demolition, despite repeated attempts to save it.



In 1973, President Pompidou declared the station a national monument and decided to create a museum, which was not yet in Paris - a museum that accommodates half a century of art: from the time of the Second Empire to the beginning of Cubism.
The ideal link between the Louvre - the temple of classical art and the Pompidou Center - the temple of modern art.
Work on the conversion of the station, which began in 1978, was entrusted to the ACT group, and interior decoration - the architect-woman from Italy Gae Aulenti.
Currently, the museum on an area of ​​more than 45 thousand square meters exhibited more than 4 thousand works of art, including painting, sculpture, graphics, furniture.

The Museum of Orsay is one of the most pleasant museums in Paris.
Unlike the neighboring Louvre (shared only by the Seine) there is never a crush and crowds of frantic tourists. Quiet, spacious, light.
The huge building of the old railway station was the ideal house for paintings by French impressionists.
Sunlight, falling through the glass dome of Orsay, enhances the radiance of the already shining paintings of Van Gogh, Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Renoir and another three dozen outstanding impressionists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The collection of the Museum of Orsay includes not only paintings, but also photographs, sculptures, furniture.





Magnificent main clocks made during the station's stay here, and now decorate the museum.

The horses are riding at the Eiffel Tower ...

The horses are riding at the Eiffel Tower ...
Who started the herd in the capital of the world?
And the racetrack on the Field of Mars
As if the planet was reversed.

Three days dedicated to the world of horses!
In Paris, there was a display of horse beauty, grace and removal.
It was a fantastic sight!
Horsemen, of course, also well done, but the horses are simply incredible.
At the foot of the Eiffel Tower, in the heart of France, the Paris stage of the jubilee tenth season of the series of Longines Global Champions Tour was held.
The background of this action was a wide advertising company.
As models, beautiful stallions of the European chief stuntman - equestrian stuntman and coach of the Frenchman Mario Lurashi, posed for the creation of the Paris Eiffel Jumping-2015 posters on the Eiffel Tower!
For the first time the Eiffel Tower was skittled by stunned tourists, and long-legged handsome men with eyelashes and chic tails and, thanks to the photographer Paola Peavy, there were wonderful posters glorifying the beauty of these graceful animals.
The Global Champions Tour is the chain of international annual competitions, which includes 14 tournaments a year, taking place in unique, exclusive venues and in capitals of different countries.
Paris Eiffel Jumping - the eighth round of the competition, which takes place on the Field of Mars directly at the feet of the Iron Lady against the background of the Higher Military School of Paris.

The title partner of the tournament is the Swiss watch company Longines, which on Saturday, July 4, presented one of the most interesting competitions - the Paris Grand Prix of the Longines Global Champions Tour.
Longines Paris Eiffel Jumping is a competition of the highest category 5 * by the graduation of the International Equestrian Federation (FEI), during which it is possible to observe the struggle of the best riders and best horses of the world.
The competition was attended by 300 riders!
Once upon a time on the Champ de Mars already had a racetrack. And the organizers of the tournament just decided to bring us back into history and, in my opinion, they did it very well.
By the way, let me and I take you to the history of the Champ de Mars, especially since she has a long beard.

It began already in the middle of the XVIII century.
It was in 1791 that Louis XV decided to build a military school, which young men from low-income aristocratic families could visit.

Thanks to this construction, the Field of Mars was used for a long time as a parade ground for military parades, that's why they named it in honor of the ancient Roman god of war - Mars.
It was on the expanses of the Champ de Mars that Napoleon Bonaparte, who was trained at the Military School, began his military career.
Later, it was on the Champs de Mars that the first controlled balloon, created by Francois Blanchard, was launched.

But since 1833 the future public park for some time served as a racecourse on which competitions of regional and European level were held.
Horse races on the famous Champ de Mars stopped in 1867, when it became the venue for the World Exhibitions.
By the way, it was for one of the exhibitions, as a temporary building, and the Eiffel Tower was built, which was greeted by Parisians more than cool, but nevertheless, will forever remain a visiting card of Paris.
Do not worry, I will not go into the history of the Iron Lady. )))

Everything, enough distractions, I promise not to rub much more, so as not to distract from viewing.
I reserve the right only occasionally to insert my five cents.
And we will be admiring horses!
What did you think? Did you think that I will show you the opening day of the bonnets, a series of Madame pomaded and minted Monsieur?
No! We will receive aesthetic pleasure from the perfection of nature.
By the way, there were very few hats and everything was simple. No three-story pomposities, and the outfits are very simple. Whether the queen mother was not enough to set the tone, whether the weather contributed to simplicity and openness.))

And the young ladies stood by the waysides,
They liked horses very, very ...

And the young ladies are all complicated: Virginie Cooperen, Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Marie Pomelin Casiraghi.

And yes, I'm sorry if the quality of the photos is not always good. There were several reasons for this.
But is this the main thing? The main thing is to catch courage and feel the relish, and maybe to look into the eyes of those who, according to the poet, have gathered all the wisdom of the world in their eyes.
Have jumped? )))

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