A bit of Paris Plages shot from the Pont de Sully on the eastern tip of the Île Saint-Louis. This is the bridge that connects the 4th Arrondissement to the 5th along the line of the Boulevard Henri IV to the eastern end of the Boulevard Saint-Germain.
Ooh, baby. Head on out to take a lazy afternoon and read a book by the Seine.
Photo by Beth Arnold.
---Beth Arnold in Paris
The sunset last night was breathtaking...The fireworks spectacular.
Happy weekend, y'all!
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---Beth Arnold in Paris
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Yes, Thursday brings us another Bastille Day in Paris, and that means more Bals des pompiers or Firemen's Balls! The parties are actually held at 15 fire stations around town, and they are smokin'!
Are the firemen hot? Yeah! Are the parties rocking? Yeah! Just take a look at the video below to get an idea...
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by Beth Arnold
Because something about her ...
...captures the spirit of Paris with the bright summer sky above.
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---Beth Arnold in Paris
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It is the time of year again for the earth to reward us with her bounty. For tomatoes to hang lushly from green vines and fragrant lavender to show off her purple blooms. The fields are alive, city pots are full. This harvest of fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs that taste like they're supposed to in this their natural season will provide building blocks for healthy bodies and mind.
And so it was again with great pleasure that the Lone Wolf and I attended the second reception for the jardin potager ornamental at the residence of the American Ambassador Charles Rivkin and his wife Susan M. Tolson. And for the second year in a row, Ms. Tolson presided over this event.
You'll remember we went to this lovely event last year...
We were attending a reception in honor of the inauguration of the jardin potager ornemental (the organic herb and vegetable garden) for the American Ambassador's residence that Ms. Tolson had initiated to support the work of America's First Lady Michelle Obama and her organic vegetable garden at the White House. This movement called "The People's Garden" at the USDA is not just a symbol to encourage all of us to eat healthily and well and to care for the earth; at the same time it's also a living, growing reality that has crossed the Atlantic to Europe.
But this year the American Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack was also one of the hosts. And we were again honoring the students of L'Ecole du Breuil in Paris for their excellent work in creating The People's Garden in Paris. This, of course, had been organized by Agricultural Economist Xavier Audran who engaged the students in this French-American collaboration so successfully.
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AUDIENCES AND REVIEWERS are falling all over themselves to praise Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen's latest offering that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last month. In it, successful hack Hollywood screenwriter Gil (Owen Wilson) and his fiancée, Inez (Rachel McAdams), have come to Paris with her stuffy Republican parents on a business trip. While the soon-to-be family live the posh Parisian high-life of five-star palace hotels and swanky restaurants, Gil is dreaming of writing the great American novel like his heroes in the Lost Generation who made Paris their own. But as Gil is absorbed by his literary nostalgia, Inez's attention is diverted to the husband of one of her friends, a cocksure academic, an "expert" in everything in and about the City of Light. And with this set-up, a fantasy unfolds.
"Charming," the reviewers say. "Allen harkens back to the magic in A Purple Rose in Cairo, New York Stories, and others... " Blah, blah, blah.
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One of my favorite spots in Paris...
is the Place Colette where Café Le Nemours is made even more beautiful glistening in the rain.
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Catching up on the latest street art I found in the 20th Arrondissement. I'm talking about my hood...
Coats of many colors--and people, too.
The bold tones and clean, simple shapes grab my attention and hold my eye. The featureless faces allow my imagination to fill them in. To me, children and adults are innocence revealed.
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When the bomb dropped about the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, all Paris was abuzz.
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A couple of days ago, the Lone Wolf and I were taking one of our strolls through the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, which is an endlessly fascinating park to us. For those who don't know: Père-Lachaise is the largest cemetery in Paris at 118.6 acres and is said to be the world's most visited home to the dead. I can see why. It is beautiful and grand, full of mysterious, elegant monuments and stories of lost souls who have been laid to rest. The park evokes curiosity and wonder of its residents' lives in the many visitors who trek through it looking up the dead celebrities.
L.W. and I haven't discovered every famous grave, but we have found many. We know parts of the cemetery quite well. And so it was with some surprise that we came across this memorial to the victims of Air France Flight 447, the jet that fell out of the sky on its fated trip from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
We hadn't noticed the monument before, or we hadn't walked down that cobblestone rue since it had been unveiled, which turns out to have been June 1, 2010. Upon seeing it, we thought it perfectly done.
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