Usually our walks around have some practical purpose--seeing this, visiting that, buying something or other--which sometimes issue in a blog post. Along the way, however, there are endless sights and experiences to record, whether or not they fit the narrative arc--don't laugh--and they usually end up as "scenes" or out-takes. Here are the first week's collection from our 2025 Paris campaign. You can hardly walk a block in this city without seeing something of interest.
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| St. Chappelle, en route to the Fete du Pain |
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Walking through Luxembourg Garden, the monument to the
painter Delacroix |
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| Alpenglow on the cathedral |
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| Sunset on the Seine |
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| Sunday morning at the Bastille market |
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In the Place Bastille, brass discs mark the outlines of the old Bastille itself |
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| From the Ile St. Louis...work on the cathedral is by no means finished |
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Berthillion, on the Ile St. Louis, ever popular ice cream dispensary;
possibly the original of now many locations |
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| Ever popular Seine cruise |
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Weekly Sunday afternoon 6th Arrondisement group-skate on the
Boulevard St. Germain; goes on for a mile or so; roads closed, police
escort |
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On the Palace of Justice: "time passes, law remains" (they still have the
rule of law in this country) |
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| The day's caryatids |
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A block from our apartment, Foucault began fooling around
with pendulums here, demonstrating the earth's rotation |
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| Parfumerie pop-up |
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Wednesday noon line to get in the Orsay: "Oh, the Mona Lisa is over
there?!" |
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Now walking through the Tuileries...which I remember mostly as a
dry, hot, dusty place...the greening of Paris is well underway, however, here
and numerous other places we've seen |
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Still in the Tuileries, the last remaining bit of
the Tuileries Palace, begun by Catherine de Medici,
in the 16th, lived in by the various royal and
imperial families from time to time, destroyed in
the Commune, 1870 |
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1860 view of the Tuileries Palace, providing the 4th wall, so to speak,
of the Louvre complex; painting by J. Fichot |
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| More greening |
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| Bee hives on the Tuileries |
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| As Raymond Mason's The Crowd looks on |
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| Musee d'Orsay also looks on |
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Still more greening, now behind the Hotel de Ville; not pictured:
they're turning the forecourt of the HdV into a forest...seriously...
pix later |
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| Coquilles St. Jacque at a market behind the HdV |
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| The Bazaar de Hotel de Ville/Marais also getting into the act |
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It will be interesting to see how they green up Radio France...
Le Camembert, as the locals call it...maybe a forest on top? |
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