City Daily Photo - Theme Day - La Revolution

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMnLlkZFBStMXSUZzUu_wuzMT_Dn8mblEZhjqqtHKDJYZuMwJwW2MxFIIamCGzWbnRu9xwGh2PiKYBvCemIqwP1Pp2h32ZIjDrHWd-Mt3tl4vhnb2NH5ZucNcwMKZlojrKt5mc8LBqpQA/s1600/2012+Mar+28+Paris_110DSC_4465.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMnLlkZFBStMXSUZzUu_wuzMT_Dn8mblEZhjqqtHKDJYZuMwJwW2MxFIIamCGzWbnRu9xwGh2PiKYBvCemIqwP1Pp2h32ZIjDrHWd-Mt3tl4vhnb2NH5ZucNcwMKZlojrKt5mc8LBqpQA/s1600/2012+Mar+28+Paris_110DSC_4465.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">City Daily Photo</div><div style="text-align: center;">Theme Day</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">On the first day of each month the photographers who participate daily with photos of their city (or adopted city) post a photo along a selected theme.  This month is "revolution," and I chose to consider the revolutions in wheels.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This woman is riding a Velib, </div><div style="text-align: center;">which is the public bicycle system in Paris.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">On three trips to Paris I have used the Velibs,</div><div style="text-align: center;">dodging the buses and cars to take a different view of the city.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I do not take photos while I ride which is a great comfort to my family.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Take a look at all of the interpretations of the <a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/may-2015-gallery-revolution.html" target="_blank">CDP photographers here.</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Paris Velib</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Place Louis Lepine</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75004, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

City Daily Photo - Theme Day - La Revolution

City Daily Photo Theme Day On the first day of each month the photographers who participate daily with photos of their city (or adopted city...

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Les yeux verts - City Daily Photo Theme Day

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE0TpyA3l7QPcXGvwSzX-wc4msKCyyahCzDpql9y7M78hcG81a9G5Q5YwarA2T9t99bIco4f9-CPGiDPzsXClhyMS1BdM3EIuHsGvzaOdrcS8mSVOHGXiYHgw1Xk_CCWmJaoYlmQg61nw/s1600/2013+May+18+Sat_50DSC_3919.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="572" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE0TpyA3l7QPcXGvwSzX-wc4msKCyyahCzDpql9y7M78hcG81a9G5Q5YwarA2T9t99bIco4f9-CPGiDPzsXClhyMS1BdM3EIuHsGvzaOdrcS8mSVOHGXiYHgw1Xk_CCWmJaoYlmQg61nw/s1600/2013+May+18+Sat_50DSC_3919.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"the green eyes"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">To look at someone with green eyes might imply envy </div><div style="text-align: center;">but to see these eyes today</div><div style="text-align: center;"> I feel thankful for the times I have been in Paris </div><div style="text-align: center;">with a promise of many more visits to come.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Anyway, my eyes are blue.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Today I join the City Daily Photo bloggers around the world </div><div style="text-align: center;">in Theme Day, "My Camera-Shy Self Portrait."  </div><div style="text-align: center;">See the creative interpretations of the April theme <a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/april-2015-gallery-my-camera-shy-self.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jardin du Palais Royal</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75001, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">April 1</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">poisson d'avril</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Les yeux verts - City Daily Photo Theme Day

"the green eyes" To look at someone with green eyes might imply envy  but to see these eyes today  I feel thankful for the times I...

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City Daily Photo Theme Day: "Aging"

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJLjyVR1u0MjpVQVeTfwsg-yMmCiycUQR_jDgtb8Ph50zNT2NP4D67LFGWDysNHe0VafSUnetw-PlykMRYau73QYRQpPEhpQnvWq0A3FbIGyM0GJk6wCGyYb6aNHSw-HBK9A3Gr_6MqqI/s1600/2014+Sept+16+Tues++++_20140916+395+DSC_7909.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJLjyVR1u0MjpVQVeTfwsg-yMmCiycUQR_jDgtb8Ph50zNT2NP4D67LFGWDysNHe0VafSUnetw-PlykMRYau73QYRQpPEhpQnvWq0A3FbIGyM0GJk6wCGyYb6aNHSw-HBK9A3Gr_6MqqI/s1600/2014+Sept+16+Tues++++_20140916+395+DSC_7909.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This mature gentleman dined alone </div><div style="text-align: center;">on the café terrace, </div><div style="text-align: center;">enjoyed un café and a smoke, </div><div style="text-align: center;">and then counted out the payment.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">He walked with the assistance of a cane,</div><div style="text-align: center;">independent and self-assured.</div><div style="text-align: center;">He is known in the neighborhood,</div><div style="text-align: center;">acknowledging the greetings that came his way.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">On the first day of each month the City Daily Photo community</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">posts a photo.  The theme this month is "aging."</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Click <a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/march-2015-gallery-aging.html" target="_blank">here </a>to see "aging" in cities all around the globe.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Le Metevier</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">1, avenue Gambetta</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75020, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

City Daily Photo Theme Day: "Aging"

This mature gentleman dined alone  on the café terrace,  enjoyed un café and a smoke,  and then counted out the payment. He walked with the ...

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City Daily Photo Theme Day - "Zest!"

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAK5w67Ppa4PnTXfoWnBsgn7SqFg24qIkENw7UeSmQQK3GtLzETjXmSfjasRQnNv_hvjT1UmUfpqsGgx8qz8OybjtRLl5cqtoU4VZSsHz1AjeMk07VK_ek8t3a8LmArXKQqAglNIgg8KM/s1600/2011+April+13+DSC_0329.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAK5w67Ppa4PnTXfoWnBsgn7SqFg24qIkENw7UeSmQQK3GtLzETjXmSfjasRQnNv_hvjT1UmUfpqsGgx8qz8OybjtRLl5cqtoU4VZSsHz1AjeMk07VK_ek8t3a8LmArXKQqAglNIgg8KM/s1600/2011+April+13+DSC_0329.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Zest!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Taken in the window of Galeries Lafayette, this grater would be fine for a citrus zest but not shaped well for larger fruits and vegetables.  I wish that I had bought one for my kitchen wall.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In observance of Theme Day for the City Daily Photo blogs (a different theme on the first day of every month), there is a <i>double entendre</i> with this photo:  First is the obvious function of this grater for making zest; second, my heart beats faster when it sees the Eiffel Tower design... zest!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com/2014/05/june-2014-gallery-zest.html" target="_blank">Click here to see</a> the many interpretations on this month's theme </div><div style="text-align: center;">by photographers from around the world.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">bon dimanche</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Galeries Lafayette</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Boulevard Haussmann</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75009, Paris</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

City Daily Photo Theme Day - "Zest!"

"Zest!" Taken in the window of Galeries Lafayette, this grater would be fine for a citrus zest but not shaped well for larger frui...

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City Daily Photo Theme Day - Squares

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJC69JNvMGw11ljkSl6376VhXqaaX2Tc-GKqD7hAqcv2kKHXuB-CXq_iZGfGGq7yCU2S9Dhkm9NvGtisNgIwMFAr98Ya6sKFZFi1TvNLhplz0qAccck5C5ZTGZ59Eauj56hlDFlI73ufE/s1600/2011+April+17+DSC_0206.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJC69JNvMGw11ljkSl6376VhXqaaX2Tc-GKqD7hAqcv2kKHXuB-CXq_iZGfGGq7yCU2S9Dhkm9NvGtisNgIwMFAr98Ya6sKFZFi1TvNLhplz0qAccck5C5ZTGZ59Eauj56hlDFlI73ufE/s1600/2011+April+17+DSC_0206.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Hôtel du Nord</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A faceless shadow leaves its mark </div><div style="text-align: center;">on the restaurant floor tiles.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">On the first day of each month I join all my City Daily Photo friends in a theme.  This month's theme is SQUARES.  <a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/may-2014-gallery-squares.html" target="_blank">Click here</a> to see all of the others from around the world. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hôtel du Nord</span></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><em>102 Quai de Jemmapes</em></span></span></i></div><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><em>75010, Paris</em></span></span></i></div>

City Daily Photo Theme Day - Squares

Hôtel du Nord A faceless shadow leaves its mark  on the restaurant floor tiles. On the first day of each month I join all my City Daily Phot...

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Pyramide du Louvre - City Daily Photo Theme Day: triangles

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-s0hnEH4Ol7PhVGPtksncAUq1hvo6cCXKturx27kLm0RcK2BXxbKPoC7Zq9Pruz49LqQsXgEDHc352dSgY-C3bYs01y8UJelvkPNfoRJK4PHUiIC3hMZCKqRbXosJpBzDHuE_Os2hHS8/s1600/2012+Mar+29+Paris_254DSC_4937.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="558" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-s0hnEH4Ol7PhVGPtksncAUq1hvo6cCXKturx27kLm0RcK2BXxbKPoC7Zq9Pruz49LqQsXgEDHc352dSgY-C3bYs01y8UJelvkPNfoRJK4PHUiIC3hMZCKqRbXosJpBzDHuE_Os2hHS8/s1600/2012+Mar+29+Paris_254DSC_4937.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Pyramide du Louvre</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The first day of the month is Theme Day for the City Daily Photo community, and the theme for April is "triangles."  In Paris there are two obvious and very large architectural structures which would pass the test:  La Tour Eiffel and I M Pei's Pyramide du Louvre, seen here.  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Taken in spring at dusk with the last glow of daylight, it takes on the watercolor hues of <i>l'heure bleue</i>.  The "blue hour" is a magical time of day when the softness of the fading light of day creates the colors only seen in artists' palettes and then dances across the Pyramide.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Pyramide du Louvre</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Musée du Louvre</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75001, Paris</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>See "triangles" from <a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com/2014/03/april-2014-gallery-triangles.html" target="_blank">cities around the world here</a></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>from my friends of CDP</i></div>

Pyramide du Louvre - City Daily Photo Theme Day: triangles

Pyramide du Louvre The first day of the month is Theme Day for the City Daily Photo community, and the theme for April is "triangles....

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Theme Day - "People on the Street"

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjka7mN_EKz_p-E5k44_sh05_EltJcocm4IaDjdld3vpTiHmdAMYEV7cCv_SXxxWZrOLGVsFiPu1Cu0yHzuDzc_QKRnnIxBw8tXc9V17N2PO4Jd6vbP9jWMShvIqNuwYfkF0osFLmfC3kM/s1600/2009+Dec+3+00188.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjka7mN_EKz_p-E5k44_sh05_EltJcocm4IaDjdld3vpTiHmdAMYEV7cCv_SXxxWZrOLGVsFiPu1Cu0yHzuDzc_QKRnnIxBw8tXc9V17N2PO4Jd6vbP9jWMShvIqNuwYfkF0osFLmfC3kM/s1600/2009+Dec+3+00188.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">People on the Street</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Observing the brisk stride of synchronized steps, </div><div style="text-align: center;">one would believe that the afternoon outing is a well-rehearsed routine.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It makes you wonder how many years </div><div style="text-align: center;">they have walked together through life.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rue Brémontier</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75017, Paris</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The first day of each month is Theme Day</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">for the City Daily Photo Bloggers - <a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Check here</a> for all the others</span></span></i></div>

Theme Day - "People on the Street"

People on the Street Observing the brisk stride of synchronized steps,  one would believe that the afternoon outing is a well-rehearsed rout...

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Au Vieux Paris d'Arcole - Theme Day

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIlusvVxsG3YicRR8sBQeZN7e34ppmbdwf_R8vLVjYh9g8B26i1MaKjiBZn8OZlnZjHGGQa41FrGOnbG7D9Qr_4yNhEzBjk3DhYlLgFi8oUk8dzc5F8e4s_lnMC3ChEaN326Feen-DpXM/s1600/2013+Nov14+Paris+_20131114+175+DSC_8841.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIlusvVxsG3YicRR8sBQeZN7e34ppmbdwf_R8vLVjYh9g8B26i1MaKjiBZn8OZlnZjHGGQa41FrGOnbG7D9Qr_4yNhEzBjk3DhYlLgFi8oUk8dzc5F8e4s_lnMC3ChEaN326Feen-DpXM/s1600/2013+Nov14+Paris+_20131114+175+DSC_8841.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Au Vieux Paris d'Arcole</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">depuis 1594</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hidden on a narrow street so very close to Notre Dame, this auberge has been open since 1594.  The structure itself was built in 1512 after completion of the Cathedral.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">  The ancient wisteria twists upon itself, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">framing the door and window above.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Today I join the City Daily Photo bloggers with a traditional first day of the month theme, </span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">this first day of February, "ENTRY."  </span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com/2014/01/february-gallery-entry.html" target="_blank">Click here to see other interpretations</a> from around the world.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Au Vieux Paris d'Arcole</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ile de la Cité</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">22, rue Chanoisse </span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75004, Paris</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Au Vieux Paris d'Arcole - Theme Day

Au Vieux Paris d'Arcole depuis 1594 Hidden on a narrow street so very close to Notre Dame, this auberge has been open since 1594.  The s...

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Photo of the Year 2013 - Theme Day

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDFYkqwXrgpUwOXDo3VU0JTshwCJzgaBwsHD5pQCXSGmXBp8Po7o6FTyV0sy7DMuIMaKi7RJ1tSggOMpTUhoAemIqFaS6Of0MwNGpF7JTL7IQyCmIRLl0M8ghu5MdIczr6VTXmBNW59sk/s1600/2013+-+favorite+of+the+year.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDFYkqwXrgpUwOXDo3VU0JTshwCJzgaBwsHD5pQCXSGmXBp8Po7o6FTyV0sy7DMuIMaKi7RJ1tSggOMpTUhoAemIqFaS6Of0MwNGpF7JTL7IQyCmIRLl0M8ghu5MdIczr6VTXmBNW59sk/s640/2013+-+favorite+of+the+year.jpg" width="632" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Favorite photo of the year</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This black and white is my favorite for the action, interest, and detail.  A breezy but sunny day on Rue Saint-Honoré was enjoyed by this woman sitting alone and enjoying her cafe.  The waiter is in watchful attendance while the lovers in the background enjoy a bottle of wine.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For me, this photo exemplifies life in Paris, <em>la vie quotidienne.</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>I am joining the City Daily Photo blog</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>theme day: Best Photo of the Year.  </em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">See the other entries here</a></em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em></em></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em></em></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div align="left" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">La Coupe d'Or</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">330, rue St Honoré</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">75001, Paris</span></i><br /><br /></div>

Photo of the Year 2013 - Theme Day

        Favorite photo of the year     This black and white is my favorite for the action, interest, and detail.  A breezy but sunny day on ...

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Cathédral Saint Alexandre Nevsky - 'looking out'

<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/11126754956/" title="2011 1107 day 4 DSC_0896 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2011 1107 day 4 DSC_0896" height="800" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2875/11126754956_79c4385f89_c.jpg" width="532" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Cathédral Saint Alexandre Nevsky</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Photos are not allowed in this beautiful gilt cathedral </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">so this view looking out at autumn leaves and nineteenth century buildings </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">will have to suffice.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">bon dimanche </span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Theme Day</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"looking out"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/december-gallery-looking-out.html" target="_blank">Please click here</a> to see how other </span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">City Daily Photos interpret the theme</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Saint-Alexandre-Nevsky Cathedral</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">12, rue Daru</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">75008 Paris</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Métro Ternes ou Métro Courcelles</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Cathédral Saint Alexandre Nevsky - 'looking out'

Cathédral Saint Alexandre Nevsky Photos are not allowed in this beautiful gilt cathedral  so this view looking out at autumn leaves and nine...

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la Grande Arche de la Defense - "Height"

<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/10602398935/" title="2013 0521 Tues_167DSC_5586 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2013 0521 Tues_167DSC_5586" height="800" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5545/10602398935_1a29824fdd_c.jpg" width="530" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"Height"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Theme for November 2013</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">City Daily Photo Blogs</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Seen from the top of Arc de Triomphe the height </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">of la Grande Arche de la Defense dwarfs the surrounding rooftops.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The height restrictions for buildings </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">have limited the number of towering structures and their locations.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>See the other contributions to theme day <a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com/2013/10/november-gallery-heights.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Avenue de la Grande-Armée</i></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>75008, Paris</i></span></span></div>

la Grande Arche de la Defense - "Height"

"Height" Theme for November 2013 City Daily Photo Blogs Seen from the top of Arc de Triomphe the height  of la Grande Arche de la ...

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Palais Garnier - colonne rostrale

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWifD-aqa_DQZufgOA1dKv2MPcle32BeysSXs612dcMEWmUAXoes52K83UAO6F-nKzGhrwBHP0MGLC5qD6ODbLJc6p6Ghr_6f_V38UrMArT_0tZsKBRXjfocshgcPj5Or_F3WNFgt1p-I/s1600/2012+Oct+6+Saturday_11DSC_8605.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWifD-aqa_DQZufgOA1dKv2MPcle32BeysSXs612dcMEWmUAXoes52K83UAO6F-nKzGhrwBHP0MGLC5qD6ODbLJc6p6Ghr_6f_V38UrMArT_0tZsKBRXjfocshgcPj5Or_F3WNFgt1p-I/s640/2012+Oct+6+Saturday_11DSC_8605.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />The rostral columns of Palais Garnier<br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The entrance to <i>Pavillon du Chef de l'Etat<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/1430000702"></a></i> (House of the Head of State),<br />which was turned into the Musée de Opéra on the western facade<br />of Opéra National de Paris Garnier,<br />is framed by two granite columns by Henri Alfred Jacquemart,<br />adorned with lamps and the masts of ships. <br />The bows of the four ships appear to have eyes.<br /><br /><br />Although other portions of this exquisite heritage site<br />have been restored since it was built in 1875,<br />the <i>ceinture de lumière</i> (belt of light) encircling the building has not. <br />Earlier this year an appeal was made to the public<br />to adopt one of the 22 lampadaires, 2 candélabres, 22 cariatides, and 14 columns. <br />The details of the rostral columns and the <a href="http://parisandbeyond-genie.blogspot.com/2013/08/street-lamps-palais-garnier.html" target="_blank">musical instrument-themed street lamps</a><br />on the opposite side of the opera house are stunning.<br /><br /><br />This is my entry for City Daily Photo Blogs Theme Day<br />-DETAILS-<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Click here</a> to see the entries of other<br />City Daily Photo Blogs around the world.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Palais Garnier</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Place de l'Opéra</em></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>75009, Paris</em></span></div></div>

Palais Garnier - colonne rostrale

The rostral columns of Palais Garnier The entrance to Pavillon du Chef de l'Etat (House of the Head of State), which was turned into th...

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Repetto XIII - "pink"

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjltvhl7guDzYe1Eaqzf6h7UBZ6LQvVGsl8uicoOMtbvA2xp2DIDkvkGQTi6KPtYzGULOD3nbxiMgl0NLjZo7zBeKaQG50XJguGiTn-fIZyO54_T_e8VrIfZNCIe5H8dDyA-NrF_r1iG4Y/s1600/2011+1107+DSC_0697.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjltvhl7guDzYe1Eaqzf6h7UBZ6LQvVGsl8uicoOMtbvA2xp2DIDkvkGQTi6KPtYzGULOD3nbxiMgl0NLjZo7zBeKaQG50XJguGiTn-fIZyO54_T_e8VrIfZNCIe5H8dDyA-NrF_r1iG4Y/s640/2011+1107+DSC_0697.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Repetto pink</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Repetto's windows are perhaps my favorite </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and definitely the most anticipated on each trip.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The main store on Rue de la Paix is just a short block from Métro Opéra.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Today is the first day of September and is Theme Day for the City Daily Photo community.  Please click <a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">here</a> to see all the posts on our theme this month:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">PINK</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">bon dimanche</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><em><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Repetto</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">22, rue de la Paix</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">75002 Paris</span></em></div>

Repetto XIII - "pink"

Repetto pink Repetto's windows are perhaps my favorite  and definitely the most anticipated on each trip.   The main store on Rue de la ...

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Street lamps - Palais Garnier

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS41neKN98_94scz99BKOIRcviCWjPIRJR-Gu3guGJrG3chMKSMo35ax6g47gZvVd9I5hesL-MkFtVJKCeewKOBkl3rqVDJgf-CWyDYYXF1_P6WqbBksMknqwTXEyev7XhyphenhyphenJqDTubRgpA/s1600/2010+dec+7+DSC_0022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS41neKN98_94scz99BKOIRcviCWjPIRJR-Gu3guGJrG3chMKSMo35ax6g47gZvVd9I5hesL-MkFtVJKCeewKOBkl3rqVDJgf-CWyDYYXF1_P6WqbBksMknqwTXEyev7XhyphenhyphenJqDTubRgpA/s640/2010+dec+7+DSC_0022.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Street Lamps</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Palais Garnier</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">These unusual street lamps are found in front of the grand Palais Garnier.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The musical instruments seems fitting for the home of the Paris Opera.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is my contribution to the </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">City Daily Photo Theme Day for August.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Palais Garnier</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Place de l'Opéra</em></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>75009, Paris</em></span></div>

Street lamps - Palais Garnier

Street Lamps Palais Garnier These unusual street lamps are found in front of the grand Palais Garnier.   The musical instruments seems fitti...

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Château de Chambord - une grande façade!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzIiQQ6DPx_fqGBSz5aXLQq2k6UsXC6ckeJpQ-Azo3NtAtufB36BdOhbT73Y4oHwVdJ5U7EBVFbv1jfyLyFLMGdYYfkEZZrBvVUu9H7oj5CCc22Pv_6Mps5UEm6OMQF0_GBDikmsCglqI/s1600/2010+0617+Paris+DSC_0462.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzIiQQ6DPx_fqGBSz5aXLQq2k6UsXC6ckeJpQ-Azo3NtAtufB36BdOhbT73Y4oHwVdJ5U7EBVFbv1jfyLyFLMGdYYfkEZZrBvVUu9H7oj5CCc22Pv_6Mps5UEm6OMQF0_GBDikmsCglqI/s640/2010+0617+Paris+DSC_0462.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Chambord</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">a very grand façade</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Constructed for King François I in the early years of the Sixteenth Century, this chateau features 440 rooms, 282 fireplaces, and 84 staircases.  In the center hall is a grand double-helix open staircase spanning three floors.  The château also features 128 meters of façade, more than 800 sculpted columns and an elaborately decorated roof. When François I<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_I" title="François I"></a> commissioned the construction of Chambord, he wanted it to look like the skyline of Constantinople.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the art collections of the Louvre and Compiègne museums were stored at the Château de Chambord.<br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is my contribution to the City Daily Photo Theme Day - façade</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com/2013/06/july-theme-day-facade.html" target="_blank">Click here</a> to see all the others from around the world.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Château de Chambord</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chambord, France</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">(an easy day trip out of Paris to the Loire Valley)</span></i></div>

Château de Chambord - une grande façade!

Chambord a very grand façade Constructed for King François I in the early years of the Sixteenth Century, this chateau features 440 rooms, 2...

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Rue des Thermopyles - un rue qui se délabre

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTUb5A3FgYF-0AvUCNmMQ9X16mkZ8LlNAYmm_nE2NOCztCEeYCzzcg5tmPLlf1F7xM3P_S1A19z6LZc05jlRciGrkecT0vFIy2Tw19LxRnQEzFQ_ijZNpiXCZK1e6GG8iazX1y8glzC7c/s1600/2011+Nov+Day+3+DSC_0542+b-w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTUb5A3FgYF-0AvUCNmMQ9X16mkZ8LlNAYmm_nE2NOCztCEeYCzzcg5tmPLlf1F7xM3P_S1A19z6LZc05jlRciGrkecT0vFIy2Tw19LxRnQEzFQ_ijZNpiXCZK1e6GG8iazX1y8glzC7c/s640/2011+Nov+Day+3+DSC_0542+b-w.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">a decaying street</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This small street outside the normal haunts of tourists </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">has fallen into ruin but the quiet beauty captured me still</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rue des Thermopyles</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75014, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The City Daily Photo members are featuring "the beauty of decay" </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">for theme day this month.  See the other entries<a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com/2013/05/june-theme-day-beauty-of-decay_30.html" target="_blank"> here.</a></span></i></div>

Rue des Thermopyles - un rue qui se délabre

a decaying street This small street outside the normal haunts of tourists  has fallen into ruin but the quiet beauty captured me still Rue d...

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Siegfried Courteau - Percussionniste

<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/8696860073/" title="2012 Oct 4 Thursday_267DSC_8359 - color by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2012 Oct 4 Thursday_267DSC_8359 - color" height="800" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8544/8696860073_1665a2e8a9_c.jpg" width="530" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/8697907390/" title="2012 Oct 4 Thursday_267DSC_8359 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://siegfriedcourteau.net/" target="_blank">Siegfried Courteau</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">To say that he is a percussionist is a gross understatement.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">He is a musical artist, pushing the limits and producing delightful rhythms and sounds.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">He is versatile as seen here arranging his "instruments" of tone.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">He appeared this day at an exhibition opening for artist <b><a href="http://www.remonbeauvais-orfevre.com/" target="_blank">Xavier Rémon-Beauvais</a></b>, a goldsmith.  The exhibit and acoustic performance were found in a gallery in the narrow pedestrian street, Cour Damoye.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The percussionist's tools are the art of the goldsmith.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You must pay attention as you never know what greatness you will discover:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">two artists at the top of their fields... in the same gallery.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">(small gallery)</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cour Damoye</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75011, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is my contribution the the City Daily Photo Blogs </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Theme Day for May</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">"The Creative Artisan" (x deux)  </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Here is the link</a> to view all the participants for Theme Day</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Siegfried Courteau - Percussionniste

Siegfried Courteau To say that he is a percussionist is a gross understatement. He is a musical artist, pushing the limits and producing del...

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Père Lachaise - crossing

<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/8603213681/" title="2009 dec 4 00380 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2009 dec 4 00380" height="800" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8400/8603213681_d50085532f_c.jpg" width="532" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Crossing</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Crossing the stone paths of Cimetière du Père Lachaise</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">perhaps a symbol for passing from this life to the next</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cimetière du Père Lachaise</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75020, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Joining the City Daily Photo Blogs</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">for April's Theme Day</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"crossing"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Père Lachaise - crossing

Crossing Crossing the stone paths of Cimetière du Père Lachaise perhaps a symbol for passing from this life to the next Cimetière du Père La...

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Montmartre - être un observateur

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG_fyW1Ey05nmdKMGTd4JVxz7oiT5stz25-3iEoEHfNCthQt5koE8WlWGxqqkMRLZh9k93KL1gtOUfxIQLBtg0xiCyqLN5kw2rbUqAkdCIVNKTaPan9YAbOxZc49iWLvchiQdKn2Dhiqo/s1600/DSC_0222-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG_fyW1Ey05nmdKMGTd4JVxz7oiT5stz25-3iEoEHfNCthQt5koE8WlWGxqqkMRLZh9k93KL1gtOUfxIQLBtg0xiCyqLN5kw2rbUqAkdCIVNKTaPan9YAbOxZc49iWLvchiQdKn2Dhiqo/s640/DSC_0222-1.JPG" width="424" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Two café chairs...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">one for sitting, and the other for...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Just outside the café on the warm terrace, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">this<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">young man</span></span></span></span> watched the pedestrians taking a Sunday stroll.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Was he waiting for a friend, for a sweetheart?  We will never know.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><em><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Le Relais de la Butte</span></span></em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><em>Rue Ravignan et Rue des 3 Frères</em></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><em>Montmartre</em></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><em>75018 Paris</em></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><em> </em></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><em> </em></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><em>This is my entry for City Daily Photo Bloggers <span style="font-size: small;">March theme day, "café c<span style="font-size: small;">hairs<span style="font-size: small;">" </span></span></span></em></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><em><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">and what better place to find them than in Paris!  </span></span></span></em></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><em><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Click <a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/march-theme-day-cafe-chairs_25.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> to see café chairs featured by bloggers <span style="font-size: small;">from </span>around the world.</span></span></span></em></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><em><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></em></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><em><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span> </em></span></span></span></div>

Montmartre - être un observateur

Two café chairs... one for sitting, and the other for... Just outside the café on the warm terrace,  this young man watched the pedestrian...

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Pétanque et un parapluie

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWZZ3kJS4w3eTao7w1mMTSWa-HeWyzBxdFSzU7vZo3Rc8hjcm4AqZnDbcySr-zkciJpbtDockRhWAVija_JkzC0LTjQiFjodBjNUonQL8XUFXGC2uhp1uveNkG5-W9ry7BlbN2hw2_xmU/s1600/2012+Oct+6+Saturday_227DSC_8822.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWZZ3kJS4w3eTao7w1mMTSWa-HeWyzBxdFSzU7vZo3Rc8hjcm4AqZnDbcySr-zkciJpbtDockRhWAVija_JkzC0LTjQiFjodBjNUonQL8XUFXGC2uhp1uveNkG5-W9ry7BlbN2hw2_xmU/s640/2012+Oct+6+Saturday_227DSC_8822.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jardin des Tuileries</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Never daunted by a few drops of rain, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">these gentlemen gather daily to play their games of pétanque.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A well-worn <i>parapluie*</i> provides scant protection from the deluge this day.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com/2013/01/february-theme-day-umbrellas.html" target="_blank">Joining the City Daily Photo Blogs</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com/2013/01/february-theme-day-umbrellas.html" target="_blank">for February's Theme Day </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com/2013/01/february-theme-day-umbrellas.html" target="_blank">"umbrellas"</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>*parapluie = umbrella</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jardin des Tuileries</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75001, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Métro Tuileries</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Pétanque et un parapluie

Jardin des Tuileries Never daunted by a few drops of rain,  these gentlemen gather daily to play their games of pétanque.   A well-worn para...

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