{"id":19349,"date":"2025-10-16T16:01:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=19349"},"modified":"2025-10-16T16:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:01:36","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-mary-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-mary-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day:\u00a0Mary in the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>his classical statue of Our Lady with the child Jesus stands in the open garden of <a href=\"https:\/\/grandcouventgramat.fr\/en\/home-english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Le Grand Couvent de Gramat<\/a>. I thought she had a rather pensive face, as if she was well aware of the sufferings that both she and her son would face. And yet, looked at another way, perhaps she has the knowing smile of a mother aware of the greatness of her son, a son who here throws his arms wide to embrace you and also to prefigure His passion. Truly a remarkable work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/53333206635_782032f39d_4k-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/53333206635_782032f39d_4k-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/53333206635_782032f39d_4k-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/53333206635_782032f39d_4k-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/53333206635_782032f39d_4k-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/53333206635_782032f39d_4k-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: <\/strong>31 August 2023 <br><strong>Place:<\/strong> Gramat, Lot D\u00e9partement, Region of Occitanie, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Maps!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The site I&#8217;ve been using for my daily maps, <a href=\"http:\/\/Gronze.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"Gronze.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gronze.com<\/a>, while otherwise great, unfortunately doesn&#8217;t have maps for this variant. So here&#8217;s a map from my book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/practical-pilgrimage-now-available\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/practical-pilgrimage-now-available\/\"><em>Practical Pilgrimage<\/em><\/a> showing the entirety of the three main variants and larger sub-variants. I walked the GR6 from Figeac to Rocamadour and the GR46 on to Cahors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"is-style-default wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2122\" height=\"1490\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3.jpg 2122w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3-1024x719.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3-1536x1079.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3-2048x1438.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2122px) 100vw, 2122px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"is-style-default wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1092\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-1024x437.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-150x64.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-768x328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-1536x655.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-2048x873.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This classical statue of Our Lady with the child Jesus stands in the open garden of Le Grand Couvent de Gramat. I thought she had a rather pensive face, as if she was well aware of the sufferings that both she and her son would face. And yet, looked at another way, perhaps she has the knowing smile of a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day-2023","category-via-podiensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19352,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19349\/revisions\/19352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}