Petit déjeuner pour moi!

Pain au chocolat et café crème at Le Pain Quotidien!

Les raisins

Fête des Vendanges de Montmartre takes place 5-9 octobre. This was taken in July in the Champagne region.

Reflets

Les Fontaines de Pol Bury at the Gallery d'orleans at the Palais Royal offer endless photographic possibilities.

Paris From Above

Sunday Church Series - Notre Dame de Paris

 Fall color against this beautiful church is breathtaking.

Le Troubadour

Montmartre is always a good idea but especially in autumn!

Une promenade dans la pluie

Just outside the iconic steps (Midnight in Paris) at the Église Saint Étienne du Mont.

L'alphabet français

Merci , one of my favorite shops, always has bins full of these wonderful letters. Today I share wth you how I learned the French Alphabet! 

Merci

11 boulevard Beaumarchais

75003 Paris

Les portal avec la plante grimpante

beautiful vines crawl and climb all over Paris. In the fall, they are spectacular. I expect some of my French experts will question my translation, but Monsieur Google says this is the term for a creeping vine. I welcome your thoughts.

Joli sourire

This cute waitress, having a little smoke break, was most willing to give me a smile.

Sunday Church Series - Look Up

The vaulted ceiling of Église Saint-Étienne du-Mont. Completed in 1624, it holds the shrine of Sainte Geneviève. Although her remains were burned and thrown in the Seine during the French Revolution, the slab that her remains had rested upon is now enshrined  in gold lattice. Located next to the Panthéon, it is a must see.

Le toilet Degas

Only in Paris. Degas in the Ladies' Room at CDG. It's right outside of customs, so we always stop in and say, "Bonjour Monsieur"!

Raspberry Beret

Technically, this jeune fille is not wearing a beret but the minute I saw her I started humming Prince's Raspberry Beret!

Marcher les chiens

Nice that les chiens match the columns at the Palais Royal.

Art For Sale

Street artists in Paris find unusual places to display their art. 

Il fait trop froid

No outside seating at Ma Bourgogne!

Deux croix

Cimetière du Père-Lachaise

La famille et le pigeon

On the way home through Place des Vosges. La vie est belle.

L'artiste

Happily sketching the animals at the charming little zoo in the Jardin des Plantes.

For my readers in the Birmingham area, I will again be teaching my 5 week photography classes at Vestavia United Methodist Church's Conservatory of the Arts beginning Monday, September 12. These classes are designed for the amateur photographer who wants to improve their photos. Come join us!

Le garçcn

A group of students on their way to Musée de la Magie. I found this one.

11 rue Saint-Paul

75004 Paris

Nouveaux vs anciens

Cimetière du Montmartre, the third largest in Paris, features a road running directly overhead some of the resting places. The current cemetery was finished in 1824 and built in an abandoned gypsum quarry. Rue Caulaincourt, or Pont Caulaincourt, a decorative metal viaduct runs over it. This is a resting place in Paris that I recommend if you are visiting Montmartre and want to experience a Paris cemetery. 

Sunday Church Series - Église Val-de-Grâce

The summer of 2009, our apartment overlooked the back of the beautiful Val-de-Grâce church. I walked over for services twice and was able to enjoy lovely services there.

La Vue

A little quiz for my very sharp blog readers. Where was this taken?
Update: We had one reader who was close. Indeed this is close to Trocadero, but actually it was taken from Cité d'Architecture et du Patrimoine

Les fleurs éternelles

Every cemetery I've visited in Paris has these lovely porcelain flower remembrances. Some are wreaths, some crosses, always beautiful. As they are exposed to the elements, their patina gets even richer. Often, as here, tiny moss begins to grow amongst the petals.

Cimetière Père Lachaise

16 rue du Répos 

75020 Paris

City Daily Photo Theme Day - Library

Well the theme this month was a cinch, as I have only been in two libraries in Paris and neither one allowed photographs. Fortunately I could take this through the glass doors at the Bibliothèque national de France, Richelieu Library.

5 rue Vivienne

75002 Paris

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