I’ve shown you a photo of “Art-ful Waters of the Jardins du Luxembourg” once before, a shot taken May 2005. In 2006, I took this next shot, perhaps my all-time favourite Paris photo (favourite of…
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Again, just a very quick update ’cause I don’t want to hog the hotel computer. We’ve been walking, in sunshine and rain, at least 20 to 25 kilometres yesterday, most days 15-20. So I’m not…
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Nous sommes ici! A bit of trouble once we arrived (late — 10:30 a.m. instead of 8:30, since we were late getting out of Mont’l.) due to a ‘manif’ which meant the RER B-line from…
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I see that Jean Nouvel has been awarded the 2008 Pritzker, a prize I haven’t been aware of before but apparently the highest award an architect can achieve. This news item only caught my eye…
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Last week, I spoke of black in the garden. Here’s an example, the dark foliage of sambucus nigra ‘Black Beauty.’ Even were we to have a freak mid-March snowstorm, spring is unstoppable now. Almost every…
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