White Cat Reflected

Our one full day in Tours. Cold, rain early and late, but the main part of the day was merely cloudy, We encountered this cat on our way to the huge covered market. She was just out on the window ledge but retreated just inside as I approached. I've never captured a reflection quite like this--it's definitely qualifies for my tagged series. 

I've added an extra image of a group of half-timbered houses (maisons á pan de bois) behind a back-lit tree in the middle of a square; the tree has been trimmed (as many are in Europe) to control the spreading of its branches. The green moss glinting in the sunlight is doubtless the result of France's warm, wet winter.   

In the afternoon we visited an excellent exhibition  of colored photographs by Robert Capa; it had shown in New York at the ICP in 2014 but we missed it there.  They showed a 90-minute movie on Capa's life, which I found extremely moving.  He died in Vietnam in 1954 at the age of 40 when he stepped on a landmine. He was thus the first American journalist to die in that country's long drawn-out war (he was born Hungarian but became an American citizen--which the McCarthy committee had tried to take away from him the previous year).