Babar at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs

((a most pleasant surprise))

I remember him, his family and his adventures from my childhood.

Jean de Brunhoff created the cutest illustrations - French colonialism for kids!

Alyssa and I were practically giddy by the level adorable-ness.

Colette Carnival

I can never be bored in Paris.

(This I love)

The other Saturday, Colette, a tré cool shop (basically the dream shop you could win a shopping spree at) had a carnival at the Tuileries. Full of booths, noms, merchandise, some children and a lot of Parisian hipsters.

-----> a pretty enormous (really!) picture post awaits, come see what all them French hipsters be into!

Saint George

In the north of Paris, coming out to Saint George on Metro Line 13.

Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs at Musée des Arts Decoratifs

 A pretty cool exhibit, come see.!

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In the dimming light

((the Centre Pompidou bathing in the warm light of a spring sunset))

A Typical Parisian Corner

The architecture of the building, the brasserie, the street, the trees.

 ((so Paris))

In the 13th arrondissement, by Place Rungis.

Palm Sunday on the Quai Montebello

Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest.

 The American Church in Paris even had little palms.! 

It was a blue and cold day to stroll down the Quai Montebello after the service to have a think but chilly wind only sharpened my awareness of all the wonderful things I have to be thankful for.

 Homage to Thomas Jefferson. 

{{"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."}}

 The Musee d'Orsay through some blossoms.

And across the River Seine, with the Eiffel Tower just peaking out//

Diptyque in La Gallerie Layfette

The infamously amazing diptyque parfumeur on display under the dome of [the insanely huge department store], Gallerie Layfette.

{if I could gift these to everyone I know that appreciates lovely things, I would}

ROBBINS/EK - Dances at a Gathering/Appartement

Birthday present from best friend:  

Tickets to the ballet at the Opera National de Paris Palais Garnier. 

\\Priceless.

ROBBINS/EK

Dances at a Gathering/ Appartement

Two choreographers with radically different styles and artistic journeys offer their piercing visions of human relationships. Haunted by Chopin, Jerome Robbins brings together five pairs of dancers to the rhythm of waltzes and mazurkas. Accompanied by the group Fleshquartet, Mats Ek devises eleven sequences like so many chronicles of everyday life.

Dances at a Gathering was a mesmerizingly beautiful story of five couples. I was completely swept away by the music and the movement, I could have watched it for hours. I thought much of how spectacular  it must have been to see such a performance in earlier centuries, before modern entertainment. 

[Admire something purely beautiful]

Fabric and Mercerie Shopping in Paris

Shops in Paris are organized in a very interesting way. 

For each particular type of business, instead of being dispersed evenly throughout the city, they clumped together into quarters - the Artist's Quarter full with all the art galleries is located in 7th arrondissement, the fine china shops are in 9th arrondissement, etc. 

On a mission for Fete in France the other day, I discovered the fabric stores.

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