Initial Seemingly Random Paris Scenes

So we arrived in Paris on April 1st, somehow evaded being April-fooled, moved into our apartment, shopped at the Franprix downstairs, and generally re-acquainted ourselves, despite the jet-lag, with the environs. Next day we were at the D'Orsay to buy Carte Blanche passes, and next day after that, FNAC, the Grand Epicerie of Paris, etc., and greeting Vicki's sister Marie and husband Norm at the Gare de Lyon. They had been touring Spain after a cruise to Barcelona, but, as we learned, had been limited because of Norm's bronchitis and a subsequent fall. Not happy campers. At the same time, I had contracted a cold and was similarly happy to take a day or two off to fend off worse developments. Nonetheless, we all got out a bit...

Beautiful art nouveau bookmarks at the Orsay

Spring has sprung...

Interesting chair at a market

Hobbit apples at the Raspail market near our apartment

Crottes fraiches...

Hobbit chickens

Among the neighbors...

Ditto...moving right along to the Hotel de la Marine

Hole in the shutter cut by the Kriegsmarine, to watch the
advance of Free French forces toward the Hotel de la Marine

View of Place de la Concorde and beyond from the Hotel

Interesting chair...

Marie taking it all in

Spring in Luxembourg Park

Pineberries at the Galeries Lafayette food court...our favorite

And you thought Wagyu was Japanese

Dior literary handbags at the Galeries Lafayette...the Joyce
version was 3,000€ (for the small version)

We can never resist this view

Did that too, again

Spring outside the Palais de Justice

Getting harder and harder for sunlight to reach
Saint Chapelle

Lightning lane to Notre Dame

"Our" boulangerie/patisserie, Mikhail Reydillet's
La Parisien, half a block away, continues to win
awards....

Half a block in the other direction, on Rue Fleurus,
across from Gertrude Stein's apartment building, this 
Livres Anciens, old books store...totally intense...
no smoking, sil vous plait...