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I have gone back and read every single post of my blog, and the website before, these last few weeks. It makes me wonder why anybody would continue to visit. There are a few brave souls. The last ten years or so were totally repetition with photos of the same places over and over again as I kept returning to them. The photos were new, just not the sites. I wish I could write like I did when I first came to Paris when everything was new to me. It all just sort of poured out of me. So, I’ve sort of lost interest in posting here. I’m still on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter and have even done a bit on Threads. That’s just photos with little comment required or wanted. I hope you will check me out there. I may get back here from time to time.

The photo is the staircase at the Jacquemart Andre Museum.

Art and the Eiffel Tower

Of course, if you know anything about Paris, you think of the Eiffel Tower. It is the symbol of Paris around the world. It was created for the World’s Fair in 1889 and is often called the Iron Lady. It is often represented in art as well.

Chagall, the artist who also painted the ceiling the the Garnier Opera House, did his thing with it.
A grandson did his interpertation years ago.
From a handmade birthday card-they call me Mimi-by another grandson.

Paris

I’m going to change up my blog a bit. I’m thinking of just doing posts with just one photo with a bit of description of the subject. We’ll see how it goes.

This was the first photo I took with a new iPhone after my phone was stolen on a crowded bus. It’s been a while since this photo was taken but I think I was inside a car. It was also before there was a safety wall around the Eiffel Tower with security to go through. I haven’t been up in years. I climbed up the stairs once with my grandsons. They zoomed up of course leaving me behind. I ate twice in the famous Jules Verne restaurant-best view in Paris.

Lucky

I’m always hoping to get the window seat when we fly. I love to see what’s below as we take off and land. As we boarded the plane in Oakland-Southwest which has open seating-and, as we were in one of the first groups to board-I took a window seat standing in the aisle a minute trying to decide which to pick, the left side of the plane or the right. I finally chose the right side fingers crossed that I would be able to see the Golden Gate bridge as we took off. Up the plane went. If we went right, I wouldn’t see a thing. If left, I would see at least some of San Francisco. Happily, the plane went left. Not only did I get shots of the Golden Gate Bridge, the sun was setting so the light was fabulous.

As you can see, I got the Golden Gate Bridge as well as some of San Francisco.

But I liked this one better because of the view of the coast. There wasn’t the usual full fog, but just a gentle kiss of fog and the sun setting and before the fires.

It was nice to see the sun as it set from my window too.

And look how the sun hit the clouds below. I was so happy.

Places and Faces

Thought I’d try a different title from This and That. A few photos all from the Montmartre area of Paris:

I’ve posted a photo before from this spot, one of the most Instagramed shots in Paris if you exclude the Eiffel Tower. It’s right above the Lamarck metro stop. Since I was there, I took it again.

They were having a fete celebrating Coquille Saint Jacques, or scallops. I got there when the place was heaving with people or I would have gotten some grilled scallops. Waiting in line behind 25 people is not for me so I went down the street and got a small quiche from a patisserie. These two ladies were selling books.

I posted some of the work by this artist not too long ago. Years ago I saw a photo he took from his apartment of someone taking a photo of his work in an alley in Montmartre. Back then he didn’t incorporate his hands. It is his real face which I guess he puts into plaster of Paris.

On the other side of the alley he has made himself a happy daisy.