Harbour

The theme for Valokuvatorstai 47th photo challenge is the poem “Le Port” from Le Spleen de Paris by Charles Baudelaire from 1869. Here’s the translation from Babelfish:

A port is a charming stay for a tired heart of the fights of the life. The width of the sky, the mobile architecture of the clouds, colourings changeantes of the sea, the flutter of the headlights, are a prism marvelously suitable to amuse the eyes without never wearying them. The slim shapes of the ships, for gréement complicated, to which the swell prints harmonious oscillations, are used to maintain in the heart the taste the rate/rhythm and the beauty. And then, especially, there is kind of a mysterious and aristocratic pleasure for that which has neither curiosity any more nor ambition, to contemplate, lying in the view-point or accoudé on the mole, all these movements of those which leave and those which return, of those which have still the force to want, the desire to travel or to grow rich.

I love the sea and I love the harbour. This picture was taken at a marina near where I live. Yeah, it’s awesome just to watch other people work, come and go…