Hadley-Ives family photographs from 2015. Page 4. |
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Page 4 features photographs of Strasbourg, Alsace, France (most photographs from April, 2015) |
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| Swans in the Ill River seen from the bridge over La Bruche where it comes into the Ill, near Ecole élémentaire du Gliesberg and Quai du Murhof. In early April the willow trees are already in leaf. | A magnolia tree on Rue des Mérovingiens is in full bloom during the first week of April. You can see the steeple of the Eglise Saint Arbogast Montagne Verte behind the magnolia blossoms. This was our local church. Every 15 minutes we heard its chimes. | Magnolia Tree in bloom. | |
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| Strasbourg provides people with good mass transit to get around the city and surrounding towns. | Green easter egg decorations in the Quartier Cathedrale of Strasbourg. | Daffodil on the bridge over the Ill River. | |
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| Children are helping carrying the cross on Good Friday, as it processes through the Neudorf neighborhood on the south side of Strasbourg. This was an ecumenical procession, with prayers and short comments at each station where we stopped. | Procession of the cross through the Neudorf neighborhood on Good Friday. | The children carry the cross on Good Friday. | |
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| Procession of the cross through the Neudorf neighborhood on Good Friday. | Procession of the cross through the Neudorf neighborhood on Good Friday. | The youth carry the cross on Good Friday. | |
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| Forsythia. | Narcissus flowers in the Orangerie Park. April 12th was an especially lovely weekend day with the flowers in bloom and an orchid show. | Flowers in the Orangerie Park. | |
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| Blossoms on a tree near our apartment. | Tulips covering the lawn beside the Piste Maurice Garin, very near our apartment. | Flowers in the Orangerie Park. | |
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| Tree in bloom. | April flowers. | Rowing in the Ill. | |
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| A demonstration in front of the cathedral. Parents of children who studied at the Neuhof Reuss school are complaining that their children are not being considered in rankings for educational priorities. | Bridge over the Ill at Place de l'Illhof. This was the bridge we crossed to get from our apartment to the soccer fields of the Hans Arp college. | The Barrage Vauban at night. This is the covered bridge built as part of the city defenses, and we often walked our bikes across it when going into town or back to our apartment. | |
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| Delightful artwork created by the Belgian master illustrator Gabrielle Vincent (1928-2000) displayed in the André Malraux branch of the Strasbourg library. | Looking down Place Broglie toward the National Opera of the Rhine. | Mugs displayed in the window of tea and chocolate shop at the corner of Rue des Meuniers and Grand Rue. | |
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| In the Bishop’s Salon in Palais Rohan there are several 17th century copies of Roman busts of emperors. | The library in the Palais Rohan. | A painting in the bishop’s salon in the Palais Rohan. | |
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| A chinoiserie figurine. Most of these examples of porcelain and pottery were from the Paul Hannong firm, which flourished in the 18th century. | Design on a chinoiserie plate. That is one long pipe! | This chinoiserie design seems to show a lady holding up a chalice. | |
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| The Palais Rohan displays a massive collection of Strasbourg porcelain and pottery, and much of the collection has Chinoiserie decoration. | Chinoiserie porcelain. European artists imagining a fairy-tale China where the plants are large and the people are small. | A clock face displayed in the Musée des Arts décoratifs in the Palais Rohan. | |
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| Rue des Hallebardes where Place de la Cathédral intersects with it. | This interesting building had a restaurant, but we never ate there. | An interesting building near our apartment. | |
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| A friendly ragondin (called a “Nutria” in the USA) swimming in the River Ill. | I am not sure what this butterfly is. It might be a Pontia edusa. | A squirrel near the Ill River, quite close to our apartment. | |
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| Arthur’s lunch. | Eric’s lunch at Une Fleur Des Champs. | The restaurant where we celebrated Arthur’s birthday (16 years old). This was at Une Fleur Des Champs on Rue des Charpentiers. | |
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| A lunch with our friends from our French class at the Restaurant Ami Schutz. | Jeri and Arthur ride their bikes in Strasbourg. | On Easter Sunday in Place des Tripiers these children chase each other around the flower garden. | |
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| Looking north on Place de la Cathédral. | In the summer of 2015 Strasbourg hosted the international Saxaphone festival (SaxOpen), so in the spring there were giant saxaphones with interesting art on them (these sculptures were visiting from Dinant, Belgium, the home of Aldolphe Sax. | Here are our vehicles, three bicycles, parked at the shopping mall, where we went to enjoy some ice cream on Arthur’s birthday. | |
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| Jeri is walking along the River Ill. | Here is Jeri in the parking lot of the grocery store near our apartment. The trees in this parking lot were exceptionally lovely. | Arthur is heading back toward our home, and behind him you can see the National School of Administration (École Nationale d'Administration). | |
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| We celebrated Arthur's 16 year-old birthday with a strawberry cake. | Arthur’s birthday cake. | We heard that Litzler-Vogel on Rue d’Austerlitz was the best place in Strasbourg to get a cake. | |
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| Arthur at the field with artificial turf and sand on the campus of Hans Arp College. | We practice soccer at College Hans Arp. | It was free ice cream day on April 14th, so we went to the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream stand in the Rivetoile shopping mall. |
Other web pages with our pictures:
2015 collection of images from Europe
Thematic Pages
Sources and diversions.
 This work by Eric & Chun-Chih Hadley-Ives is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. |