The Weekend in Black and White

There are many, many carrousels (in French, manèges)
to be found all around Paris.  This is one of
the most charming, I think—the dodo manège, with
fanciful creatures to ride (a gorilla, an ostrich, a panda) as 
well as some that are extinct (a dodo, a triceratops). 
 It's located near the northeast corner of the Jardin des Plantes. 

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inSPIREd Sunday

Looking down rue Monge from the heart of the
 5th arrondissement, you can see the graceful
spires of Saint-Chapelle.   The distance 
from here to there is actually about 2/3 mile
(but I have a pretty good zoom lens!).

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Une jolie maison jaune

Near the Panthéon and the rue Mouffetard market street
is this pretty yellow building where I would
love to live.  However, an online search and some
quick calculations tell me that property values 
at this well-located address average 15,388 euros/sq. meter
—which means that for a place smaller than 300 sq. ft.,
I would need to plunk down more than $500,000.  Oh well.

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inSPIREd Sunday

This is the early-18th-century organ in the
church of St.-Nicolas du Chardonnet.
You can hear it here.

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inSPIREd Sunday

Here's another view of St.-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet,
in Paris, which I've shown you once before.  
On this plaque are engraved the names of priests 
who have led this church since it
was originally built in the 13th century.

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Miam! = Yum!

It all starts when the big yellow truck arrives and these
two strong guys deliver the organic flour.
When I was in Paris recently, those gorgeous cakes
were strictly a "visual" feast, but we went out
of our way almost every day to come here to 
Eric Kayser and treat ourselves to one (or two)
of those baguettes—often still warm from the oven.


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ABC Wednesday—P is for "Paris"

It's pretty much impossible to choose one
image that represents all that Paris is.  I wouldn't
even try.  So I've randomly chosen this
elegant Haussmannian building near the Pantheon,
with its signature wrought-iron balconies 
and red clay chimney pots.

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a bunch of bikes

Guess which one caught my eye. . . .

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ABC Wednesday—L is for "lovers"

... and also for "long lens," without which I would
not have been able to capture this shot.

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inSPIREd Sunday Shadows

This is the church of St.-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet,
in Paris's 5th arrondissement.  When the Vatican
decreed that the mass would be said in the 
vernacular, they decided to keep saying it in Latin—
which for some reason upset a lot of people.
I really don't have an opinion about that. Do you?

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ABC Wednesday—E is for "early"

And also for "empty":
Parisians seem to sleep in a bit on Saturday
morning, so when I'm there I like to get up early
and wander the unpopulated streets.  I do see
 someone sitting on the terrace of that little corner
 café—probably another "visitor" like me.

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InSPIREd Sunday

This is the 17th-century church of
St. Etienne du Mont, in Paris.  Though I used to
live just down the street from it and have been
here many times, I never cease to be
amazed by the intricate stone cutwork.  There's
a matching staircase on the other side. (On a 
21st-century note, it's from the steps of this church that
Owen Wilson time-traveled in Midnight in Paris.)

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