And Two More Parks

We walked through Parc Montsouris after the street market...and then, later, through the Luxembourg Gardens; and then back again to Luxembourg the next evening...

Not in English too; pretty far beyond the tourist zones

The usual beautiful landscaping, care, sculpture, etc.

Abundant historical information...en francais; one of many such
parks developed in the regime of Napoleon III; mainly to keep the
little people occupied, happy...not manning the barricades

Big lake; the whole area was known as La Glaciere because such lakes

provided much of Paris' ice in the 19th century

As always, a Guignol, puppet theater, plus plenty of kid playground

stuff

Lots of joggers on the seeming miles of paths

And now we are returning home through the nearby Luxembourg
Garden

Thank you, Maria de Medici, for the palace of one of Paris' great

gardens; the palace is now the French Senate

Parisians love their parks

The grass areas you can occupy are rotated; three-year-old grand-daughter
Penelope was once busted by a gendarme for singing and dancing in
one of the forbidden lawns

Men doing what men must do...petanque!

Team sport; this is what "let's go bowling, Dude" means here

The string hanging from his right hand is 
attached to a strong magnet, used for picking
up the solid metal balls

A game of inches, I mean, centimeters...

The next evening's promenade in a different part of the park...
mixed boxing lessons and practice

Great sculpture everywhere...and everything in bloom

The poet Verlaine

The physicist Edouard Banly, who taught in the
Catholic Institute around the corner from our street;
discoveries in radio waves, wireless transmission...

A rare scene...American basketball

A copy placed here in honor of the victims of 9-11

Poet of the Piano

Weird cypress, in one of the botanical garden sections

The orchard at the south end is fenced off; contains 
some 600 varieties of pears and apples, among others

Largest buckeye ever, so far

Obligatory Guignol

Huge beautiful park