Going wild and back to Lyon...

Hi everyone, there's a lot going on around these parts and I really would love to get out into the countryside for some inspiration.
As it happens I have been showing some of the photos on my phone to friends and family and came across some photos I took way back of some ferns that set me onto this page for my 'We're all/going' theme at Art Journal Journey

I painted a blue background which turned out a little darker than I would have liked so brightened it by using Paper Artsy's Courtney Franich stamps (set ECF06) with Twisted Citron Distress Oxide ink and some Crafty Individuals alphabet letters in Spiced Marmalade DOx. The Ferns and dragonflies are also Crafty Individuals stamps(setCI207).
The words are from my quotes box - another separated stamp!
I hope we're all able to go wild sometimes!

Just around the corner from those fabulous views in my last post is the Cathedral de Notre Dame de Fourviere - beautiful inside and out!

We stayed there until we began to feel hungry and headed for lunch!

After we had eaten in the Old Town we went to explore.

Lyon was once famous for silk, until riots during the Industrial Revolution and there are silk workers houses all over Vieux Lyon as well as passages known as Traboules(link) that led from one street with another down to the river. The passages were also used by the Resistance during the Second World War.
At first we just tried our luck until we met someone we had sat next to in a restaurant the night before who told us about the map...then we were away!!!
Some of them had lovely courtyards and of course we had to be quiet so as not to disturb the residents.

The streets were interesting too...

I hope you aren't getting tired of seeing my photos...there are  still loads more!

Thanks for looking, Chris