One of the many delights of the Luxembourg Gardens is the pleasure of sitting in the willow green fauteuil chairs, watching people and reading in the dappled sunshine. And on a sunny day, one can find a huge number of Parisians doing just that. It was where I sought respite coming and going from my … Continue reading My Favorite Place in Paris: The Luxembourg Gardens

Writing to a friend earlier this evening I noted that I’m ready to go home but not ready to depart France. My list still has unfinished business. The morning dawned hot and humid. The courier who was supposed to collect my luggage between 8:00 and noon was late by an hour and I began to … Continue reading Le Dernier Jour (The Last Day)

Before beginning this post, I just thank you for indulging for a bit of girlie stuff….yes, grammar and all. For as many years as I’ve come to France, and specifically to Paris, I have wanted to have tea in one of the BIG 5 hotels. Frankly I used to find them intimidating; but with age … Continue reading Le Pause Gourmande

Another wonderful museum experience on Monday at The Grand Palais. This is a huge and impressive building...so massive that I believe it would take a half hour to walk the perimeter of the structure..it is close to two blocks long on each side. So when the Uber driver dropped me off at what looked like … Continue reading Le Jardin expo at The Grand Palais

Here are two photos taken inside St Sulpice on Sunday.  For anyone who is a fan of Dan Brown's books, specifically The DaVinci Code, this church figures prominately in his novel.  It has been my joy to hear Daniel Roth play the organ here every time I've been in Paris since 2000. As one approaches … Continue reading In and around St Sulpice Church Sunday

Long, long ago, a young Air Force Lieutenant approached an even younger church organist after the Sunday morning service, as she was playing the postlude. His opening gambit once the music stopped and he had complimented her on it, was a request to play his favorite hymn, which is “When Morning Guilds the Skies”, after … Continue reading Musical Memories

  And from the long walk home afterwards... Another afternoon promenade near the Louvre

Have you any idea what to do With a chocolate shoe??? Moi, non plus!!!   (Rhymes with shoe!) Patrick Roger...one of the fine chocolatiers in Paris. 

Outside, it is "raining cords", one of the first French expressions I ever learned, probably back in high school.  Lightening, thunder, and a total downpour. Sensing a storm was eminent I scurried to the corner boulangerie for a demi-baguette, tomorrow morning's croissants and just barely made it through the big iron doors into the apartment … Continue reading Il pleut des cordes

Two photos of Cézanne's paintings at l'Orangerie yesterday, and in betweeen them close up of the detail around the the frame of the painting below, simply titled "Rocher Rouge" or red rock.       And below is another Cézanne painting title "Mt. Saint Victoire" which is a mountain just outside the city of Aix … Continue reading Pictures from an Exhibition