Le petit garçon et l'iPhone

Waiting on the bus, this sweet boy was amusing himself with his mom's iPhone. I amused myself taking photographs! We see more and more Parisians with their devices in Paris now. Certainly not as much as here in the US.

Les petits gilets jaunes

Pas de problème, these gilets jaunes mean no harm, they are skipping off on a field trip!

Home For Lunch

The schools in Paris let out for over an hour each day for lunch. Many children go home for lunch. This petite jeune fille is going with her maman.

Le petit garçon et la tour Eiffel

I snapped this before he spotted me. After, I got a few smiles as well, but love this one.

La petite fille et le bébé

Sunday on rue Mouffetard

Le Carrousel

The carrousel in front of the Hôtel de Ville always signals Christmas in Paris. This jolie petite fille was hanging on tightly!

Un, deux, trois

at the Palais Royal

Field Trip, Parisian Style

Boys will be boys, no matter where they live. These school boys were having a fine time feeding the pigeons their leftover lunch chips in the area between the Palais de Tokyo and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville Paris. Although I've not visited the Palais de Tokyo, I highly recommend the Musée d'Art Moderne!

Samedi avec Papa

Saturdays in Paris don't involve being loaded up in the family SUV for a day of track meets, basketball games etc.  You see a lot of families out together on the streets. Papa had the children this Saturday morning.  Who knows where they were headed.

Cadenas d'amour!

Walking across the Pont des Arts this Sunday afternoon,  I loved watching these boys trying to figure out what this was all about!

Paris Rouge - Coming and Going

Fun On The Buren Columns!

Get ready....

Get set...

GO!!!

( And she didn't drop her lapin!)

Joie de Vivre II

Caution. I've been devouring David duChemin's marvelous book, Within The Frame, The Journey of Photographic Vision, and am feeling empowered to post this photo that I would honestly have deleted. For those of you who love travel photography, run, don't walk to Amazon.com and buy it.

Paris avec les enfants

If you are planning a trip to Paris with children, le Jardin d'Acclimatation should be at the top of your list.  It has the charm of a small amusement park with rides, a playground, small petting zoo, gardens and not to mention the deal little boat ride!  This day we were  joined by our Birmingham friends, the Wilsons and a good time was had by all. Notice the height of that rope Tour Eiffel!  That's Eva on the far right with Katherine, Ethan in the front and Davis on his way up on the left.

Jardin d'Acclimatation

Bois de Bologne

75016 Paris

Interdit II - La petite fille

La Comédie Française has relocated during renovations to a temporary building built over the Pol Bury Fountains at the Palais Royal.  This little one seems to be reading the signage and trying to decide whether or not to obey!

Thé Madame?

If you read yesterday's post, you know that Mary and I visited a large brocante in the 20 éme on one of our jaunts around Paris. While we didn't find much of anything we wanted to purchase,  this sweet boy selling mint tea and sweets was impossible to pass up.  

Les Petits Patineurs

Granted this photograph is not well composed, but I think it gives a true flavor of the skating rink at the Hôtel de Ville.  The smallest were scooting all over as best the could,  holding onto the wooden walls or pushing the cute and colorful little scooters!  The city had kindly provided an area just for the little ones so they could get around without being run over by the more accomplished skaters.

For my Birmingham AL area readers, I'll be teaching From Snapshots to Photographs again starting the end of this month at Samford University. Please join us!

Signes du samedi - Pas de chiens

There is a dear little playground adjacent to the Église Saint-Médard on rue Mouffetard.  Good things these petits garçons didn't bring their chien along!

Le petit garçon

After Sunday church services at the Église Val-de-Grâce, this sweet boy took advantage of the wide open spaces of the courtyard.  He sat very quietly through the service where his baby sister had been christened that day, and needed a little play time!

Petite Fille

As you all know by now, every photo I share brings back beautiful memories of Paris.  But today's photograph is bittersweet for me.  As  Mary and I walked along behind the street market that cold January morning, I spotted this little girl with a cup in her hand. My first thought was that she and possibly maman were having a cup of chocolat chaud.  As I snapped my first shot, she heard the click and turned. She gave me this little smile,  and it was then that I realized that she and her mother were there begging for euros. I tear up every time I look at her sweet face.