Sevastopol welcomes the Black Sea fleet home again

Thanks to Reuters for this wholesome, edifying image!

Un, deux, trois...

Another pic from the Scout Fraternity site, this one apparently a Pierre Joubert-esque depiction of the three main sorts of Scout in France - one from the "mainstream" Scouts of France on the left, one from the Scouts of Europe on the right, and in the middle a representative of one of the "traditionalist" Scout organisations - probably the Unitary Scouts. The website's stated aim is to encourage bonds of brotherhood between the three "branches".

(Good luck with that!)

Dulce et decorum

At Mont Saint-Michel! (Picture from Taps40's blog)

The Little Boat

First non-Scouting post in while! The connexion, I suppose, is that I found this pic on a blog with the address http://pierrejoubert.blogspot.com/ - but going by the name 'Nona'. Actually it's mostly leftwing conspiracy theories and wackiness, but 'Pierre Joubert' was the name of the great French "Scout artist" of the last century. He was (though he may be still alive, for all I know) somewhere between Georges Remi (of Tintin, and so on) and Norman Rockwell.

This painting is The Little Boat, by the Finnish artist Albert Edelfelt.