Paris in Pictures

It was a a week of walking, cycling, window shopping, solving some problems, meeting new people,

exploring iconic sights, wine shopping, eating, French lessons, more walking and sore feet. In other words it was a fabulous week. Below is a smattering of photos on a very wide range of subjets. Whatever caught my eye. There was so much more, but one simply must narrow it down. There is no  order or system to these. Just Paris. 

Our Neighbours

 

Reflections Through a Porthole  I  &  II

Bastille Market Sunday Morning

I bought the Orange and Gold Dahlias

Sunflowers at their best.

Pepper Bouquets

Sweet Strawberries

Artichokes Ready for the Pot and Melted Butter

Olives of Every Colour and Flavour

 

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Figs and Nuts. . . Fresh Walnuts and Hazelnuts are Fabulous

Every Variety of Shellfish 

Fresh Thyme

Basil & Bay Leaf.. Fresh not dried up in a little Bottle

Little Cheeses full of Surprises

Bastille is a Lively Market: Crowds, Music, Food and Great People Watching

Bike Ride along the St. Martin Canal...This is a Theatre in the Round

(Short Ride of about 40KM!)

 

Taking in the Colour

Bike Wheel

Handlebar

Pedal and Seat!

Chalkboard Graffiti

Watching Changes

Jardin de Tuileries 

Still Blooming

Colour and Flared Trousers! This is Fashion Week in Paris

These are Flowers with a Difference (by Gucci)

Cats

Galeries Lafayette: Food Hall

All Pastries Green

Chocolates to Choose

Single or by the Box 

Heritage Tomatoes

These have Red Hearts and are Delicious

Window of Apertifs

My Fatal Attraction: Cookery Shops

Every Size Every Shape

Your Choice

All the Above Cookware from A. Simon on the rue Montmartre

I visited this shop 30 years ago and it remains basically unchanged.

You Can Find Anything for the Kitchen, such as any size of whisk.

 

What is your Task? Dehilleren can Help ...since 1820

 

Copper Bowl for  beating Egg Whites , upper right ...still have mine and still using it. 

 

"Mood Boards" for Givenchy created by their new Artistic Director, Claire Waight Keller..again Fashion Week so these are Everywhere!

 

What I want!

 

Divers in the Seine doing Checks

View from Pont Royal

Monet Waterlilies: Just one of a series completed and donated to the state

Paul Cézanne Stillife 

Degas

An Evocative Pissaro

Gustave Caillebotte "The Floor Scrapers"

Renoir "Bal du Moulin de la Galette"

 

View of Sacré Coeur from Musée d'Orsay

Ready for Thanksgiving...'The Turkeys" by C. Monet

"Sails  at Argentuil"  Monet

We passed this bend in the river. . ."La Seine at Suresnes"  Alfred Sisley

An enlarged portion of a Monet

View Through a Clock Face

Rosettes

Different Rosette

Beautiful Art Deco Desk and Chair

Swans in Glass

Émile Gallé the Master Glass Artist

More of his Work: These bowls actually glow

. . . and this exqusite Dragonfly

Clocks in a Window

Caught my Eye

If We Win Euro Lotto. . .We love it!

Just Simple Wallpaper

So Much to See. We live on a Boat; No Room

Demure Bathers in Colour

Or Black and White

Yes, he was in a Window

Antique Tjalk

Notre Dame in Evening Light

Always Spectacular

Forever a Canal View 

 

Man Pondering the City

Gardens surround Notre Dame

Whimsical Touches

From Every Angle

Somebody Polishes This: Not an Easy Task

Forty Roses III tied off with Oribi at Port Arsenal

Pretty Parks

Quiet Corners

Lock within the arched tunnel is how we enter from the Seine

At Night

A City of Lights 

Shimmering on the Water 

Magic 

Departing Paris: Oribi our "buddy boat" second barge behind Mise en Seine which was built in 1911