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

There is an amazing collection on special exhibit at l’Orangerie here in Paris right now. That museum was not on my list to visit on this trip, but after hearing my friends wax eloquently about it, I decided to go. It is a collection of works from the Bridgestone Museum of Art in Tokyo on … Continue reading An Unexpected Lesson in Color

This first set is from the street market on Sunday.  These guys were butchering chickens as fast as their knives would go...as one who watched my Dad do this, I was mightily impressed with their knife skills, particularly as they scraped and cleaned the inner parts.   The set below were taken in the beautiful … Continue reading Catching up on Photos…A Variety of Scenes

I battle the not-so-small voice inside that says, “You can do just a little bit more” all the time, even when the body and the other voice say, “just take it easy today”. So the interior dialogue between the doer and the pause command has had a dueling session today. I had every intention to … Continue reading VE Day in France. Monday, May 8, 2017

The three of us, friends since 1958, our freshman year at Willamette joined for lunch at a charming tea room just outside the southern entrance to the Luxembourg Gardens. We were seated two on a settee and one on a chair in the center of the restaurant, with a full view of the pastry case … Continue reading Ladies of a Certain Age…

An organ concert at Notre Dame Cathedral was the setting for a rendezvous with my friends from colllege, Nancy Snyder and Sue Wilson.   Nancy and Sue have been here in Paris for a couple of weeks now...Nancy is almost at the end of her time here and Sue is staying on until early June. … Continue reading Mes Amies á Willamette University