Friday, 15 June 2018

Sunday afternoon

...and various.

We went to the Place des Vosges on Sunday afternoon, and were able to enjoy the sunshine. We went into a small art gallery and saw some beautiful glass art featuring Tintin - but alas, while I was sure I remembered the name of the artist, searching for it online has been a vain quest.

On the way back we went into the Pavilion de l'Arsenal which, along with the July column in the Place de Bastille was one of the features I used to orient myself. It's a museum of the city and built environment, and we would love to go back and spend more time there. It would be a great rainy-day destination. On a hot day with no air-con it was rather on the warm side, but fascinating. The two photos show a 3D relief model of Paris, and a model for the refurbishment of a multi-story carpark into residential dwelling.
The two sheep were just a window display - an Iceland travel bureau.













Wednesday, 13 June 2018

Sunday outing

On Sunday morning we went to the local market off the Place de Bastille, and then took the metro to Belleville. The street art was NOT what Lonely Planet led us to expect and we felt we'd wasted the metro tickets, but at least we got my birthday present at the market - and a bunch of lilac.









Saturday, 9 June 2018

Jardins de Luxembourg

On a hot and sunny day. One small area , going down towards the Observatory, said that sitting on the grass was allowed. It's the norm in Paris that most of the green areas in parks are "pélouse interdit" - keep off the grass. The little boats for sailing on the pond were in great demand.

We walked past one of my favourite shops in Paris on our way to the gardens.










Wednesday, 6 June 2018

Round and about Paris...

Assorted photos...

There was a major bicycle related promo running in BHV, and on the top floor there was a small photo exhibition, photos of (mostly) celebrities and film stars either in real life or from films. Johnny Halliday, with the caption saying he had no choice because his driving licence had been suspended. We enjoyed looking at them.




Eglise Saint-Paul Saint-Louis
view from our apartment



The following three photos were all along the Rue de Lille, as far as I remember.




Working on La Monnaie, trompe l'oeil hoardings


and a hoarding on the old La Samaritaine building.

Friday, 1 June 2018

Along the Seine

It was more like high summer than early Spring, and the banks along the Seine were absolutely packed with people enjoying the sunshine and warmth. And in the case of the firemen - they found the best of both worlds, mooring partly under a bridge for shade. The dog was also hanging out under the shade of a bridge.

 A random sampling of photos taken throughout the few days....











Spoiled for choice with a header for this month, as we were camping in France last June. The photo I chose is a nesting stilt, in the Camargue. 





Thursday, 31 May 2018

May Favourites

I've been having fun with more Chibitronics cards but probably won't include those in this post as I have several other favourite cards...

The one with the antique photo was for a challenge to use photos. Normally, no problem. But for the last year or more, our printer has steadfastly refused to print on anything other than regular paper. Photo paper - no; trasnparencies, no; vellum - just about. So I rooted through the box where I knew I had kept some photos from an old album when I was throwing it out. It led me to look up "instantaneous photography" because it surprised me to see the term on such an old photo. Lorraine, thank you for the perfect stamp to use on this.





 

I need a couple of special  birthday cards for July, and was making sure to have them made and filed away safely in good time. The garden room is the interior of one, and then we have a pop-up tag book. Postage went up in April and I didn't realise till about three weeks ago. Oops.