Two languages, two names

....and two meanings. The French 'avenue de Faugères' is descriptive of the road's destination to the north of the village. The Occitan 'avenguda de las Carolinas', like many of the Occitan street names in the village, is more rooted in what is here: in this case, the Carolinas trees that used to line part of the route out of the village, past the wine domaine Clos des Carolines. Only one or two of these trees remain now and I think they were imports rather than indigenous trees, of the variety Populus angulata. They would have been a sign of prestige for the person who planted them and I'll blip them later as part of this series. The leaves have almost all blown away now but there were nice shadows, I noticed this morning. It was too cold to stand about taking photos though, in the strong north wind that is gusting up to 100 kilometres per hour and worried me in the night when the roof seemed about to lift off. Remember those roof tiles I blipped the other day and how I was impressed that they didn't need any fixing? When the wind is blowing, I wonder whether some fixing might be a good idea!

This is the second in my one street project.

Edit: a few draft lines to accompany the image, inspired by Arachne's comment about the way different cultures name streets:

What's in a name?

Direction, order, logic.
In its blue form this road leads
to another place, while beneath that sign
lie roots of feeling, memory,
generations of growing here,
being in this place, in this language,
en aquesta lenga, like a tree.
© TW