Cimetière Passy - un message privé

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVRT1nmpi0v45hqqHao5eWV7yWVCUptIOtwNBXr3UPlE75xV5lSOBw5bINO3iyop_LPk1mHIgQN7-CY1o0tNGvwdLaKKkp7Eo2cVcVE2nBTDVR0pBVulmQdDUVzQoUA5EcSqhPxloj0IY/s1600/2013+May+22+0522+Wed_32DSC_5642c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVRT1nmpi0v45hqqHao5eWV7yWVCUptIOtwNBXr3UPlE75xV5lSOBw5bINO3iyop_LPk1mHIgQN7-CY1o0tNGvwdLaKKkp7Eo2cVcVE2nBTDVR0pBVulmQdDUVzQoUA5EcSqhPxloj0IY/s1600/2013+May+22+0522+Wed_32DSC_5642c.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Passy Cemetery</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Passy Cemetery sits in the shadow of la Tour Eiffel </div><div style="text-align: center;">and is the final resting place of the painter Édouard Manet, </div><div style="text-align: center;">a key figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">On the left corner of his grave I found a weathered</div><div style="text-align: center;">message anchored by small rocks.<br />Always watch for the details </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;"><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;">Passy Cemetery</span></span></i><br /><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="kno-fv _gA">2, rue du Commandant Schloesing</span></span></span></i><br /><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="kno-fv _gA">75016, Paris</span></span></span></i><br /><span class="kno-fv _gA"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Cimetière Passy - un message privé

Passy Cemetery Passy Cemetery sits in the shadow of la Tour Eiffel  and is the final resting place of the painter Édouard Manet,  a key figu...

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Père Lachaise en hiver

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrEeR9GT_RIg222fE25EkRPXVASsPx76xC8H6D2KQSxpEfQsWUJlW4JTvgMuxFImkHpih1WItP_UTPF0rDNJVW_NRi7_8FCSKVxU8XatGxOCYQMC7sD09cTlXBalQVdyz__lj1at2_Gww/s1600/2009+Dec+4+00382.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrEeR9GT_RIg222fE25EkRPXVASsPx76xC8H6D2KQSxpEfQsWUJlW4JTvgMuxFImkHpih1WItP_UTPF0rDNJVW_NRi7_8FCSKVxU8XatGxOCYQMC7sD09cTlXBalQVdyz__lj1at2_Gww/s1600/2009+Dec+4+00382.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Père Lachaise</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In summer these bare branches are filled </div><div style="text-align: center;">with leaves making a canopy of shade from the heat and sun.  </div><div style="text-align: center;">In winter, the "tree bones" litter the narrow stone paths </div><div style="text-align: center;">with a mosaic of shadows.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If you are a winter visitor, put Père Lachaise on your list.  </div><div style="text-align: center;">You can wander through the 110 acres </div><div style="text-align: center;">and almost have the place to yourself, </div><div style="text-align: center;">or you can get a map <a href="http://www.pariscemeteries.com/pdf/Plan-sepultures-Pere-Lachaise.pdf" target="_blank">(here)</a> and locate a specific grave.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The long shadows of winter will give you memorable photos.</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;">le Cimetière du Père Lachaise</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;">16, rue de Repos</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;">75020, Paris</span></span></i></div>

Père Lachaise en hiver

Père Lachaise In summer these bare branches are filled  with leaves making a canopy of shade from the heat and sun.   In winter, the "t...

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Décomposition et désespoir

<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/10735989743/" title="2012 Jan HB - IMG_6747 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2012 Jan HB - IMG_6747" height="800" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5484/10735989743_a2cbdc7e27_c.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Decay and despair</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Overturned tombstones, doors ajar, unkempt grounds...</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This desolate cemetery pairs well with the expression on this caryatid</span><br /><br /><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">(not Père Lachaise)</span></span></i><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>

Décomposition et désespoir

Decay and despair Overturned tombstones, doors ajar, unkempt grounds... This desolate cemetery pairs well with the expression on this caryat...

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Cimetière de Passy - le gardien

<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/9456218592/" title="2013 0522 Wed_72DSC_5682 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2013 0522 Wed_72DSC_5682" height="800" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7288/9456218592_09582c8cae_c.jpg" width="544" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Cimetière de Passy</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the caretaker</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;">I am attracted to cemeteries and have sought them out in every city visited.  Paris has an abundance of cemeteries and many stories to go with them </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;">Cimetière de Passy is less than six acres in size making it easy to cover in about an hour.  You will find the famous and the not-so-famous, a princess, artists, aviators, actresses, and many more.  You may even catch a glimpse of the caretaker going about his business.</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;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">All the while, la Tour Eiffel is peeking over your shoulder.</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;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Cimetière de Passy</i><br /><i>2, rue de Commandant Schloesing</i><br /><i>75016 Paris</i></div>

Cimetière de Passy - le gardien

Cimetière de Passy the caretaker I am attracted to cemeteries and have sought them out in every city visited.  Paris has an abundance of cem...

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Cimetière de Passy

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1tuIBr6IfnBR5lJYYUiLw_u0-98j7wKOQAlzX_2BPcce4-o69YptMGm1xD53apSUUqZ81kLMCWLdqUHMQ5obI35eA8Ff2THmLLh2ZjObpSozqYpKgEbYsIXaBqTI0bIXjCutS_8n6cdI/s1600/2013+0522+Wed_36DSC_5646.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1tuIBr6IfnBR5lJYYUiLw_u0-98j7wKOQAlzX_2BPcce4-o69YptMGm1xD53apSUUqZ81kLMCWLdqUHMQ5obI35eA8Ff2THmLLh2ZjObpSozqYpKgEbYsIXaBqTI0bIXjCutS_8n6cdI/s640/2013+0522+Wed_36DSC_5646.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;">Cimetière de Passy</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 porcelain wreaths and flowers are usually broken, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">either through carelessness or vandalism.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This one caught my eye for the delicate colors.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Then one notices the long life enjoyed by this couple </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">who saw many changes in Paris over their lifetimes.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">How rare was it to live to almost 100?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Cimetière de Passy</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="kno-fv"><span class="kno-fv-vq fl" data-vq="/search?biw=1920&bih=948&q=passy+cemetery&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDAx8HsxKHfq6-QVZ2TrkDY22TW-aWpZMq65s1OuU6PbnCPk8SAgCAZ4j2KwAAAA">2, rue du Commandant Schloesing</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="kno-fv"><span class="kno-fv-vq fl" data-vq="/search?biw=1920&bih=948&q=passy+cemetery&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDAx8HsxKHfq6-QVZ2TrkDY22TW-aWpZMq65s1OuU6PbnCPk8SAgCAZ4j2KwAAAA">75016, Paris</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="kno-fv"><span class="kno-fv-vq fl" data-vq="/search?biw=1920&bih=948&q=passy+cemetery&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDAx8HsxKHfq6-QVZ2TrkDY22TW-aWpZMq65s1OuU6PbnCPk8SAgCAZ4j2KwAAAA"><i>Métro Trocadéro </i></span></span></div>

Cimetière de Passy

Cimetière de Passy The porcelain wreaths and flowers are usually broken,  either through carelessness or vandalism.   This one caught my eye...

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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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Père Lachaise XII - les ombres

<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/8491355632/" title="2009 Dec 3 IMG_0124 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2009 Dec 3 IMG_0124" height="800" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8512/8491355632_bd92ae6756_c.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Père Lachaise</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;">I have an affinity for photographing cemeteries and Cimetière du Père Lachaise is a favorite.  No matter the season, the weather, or the time of day, one finds interesting lines, reflections, shapes, and ghosts.    </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;">Although one would think that a cemetery does not change from day to day,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> it is different on each visit.</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;"> (No, I have not seen ghosts)</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;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Cimetière du Père-Lachaise</span></span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"></span></span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Boulevard de Ménilmontant</span></span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">75020, Paris </span></span></i></div><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Métro Père Lachaise, or<br />Métro Phillippe Auguste</span></span></i><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Père Lachaise XII - les ombres

Père Lachaise I have an affinity for photographing cemeteries and Cimetière du Père Lachaise is a favorite.  No matter the season, the weath...

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Sainte-Geneviève des Bois - le cimetière

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8202/8214584257_ae9babe6ea_c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8202/8214584257_ae9babe6ea_c.jpg" /></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;">The Russian Orthodox Cemetery</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">at Sainte-Geneviève des Bois</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;">Although I have only seen this cemetery in the fall,  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">in any month one imagines that the setting would still appear as an artist's palette </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">but in the shades of the proper season.</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;">Whether carpeted with Ginko leaves, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">a rare blanket of snow, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">or the petals of the spring blooms,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> it would surely be an artist's canvas.</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;">Russian Orthodox Cemetery</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sainte-Geneviève des Bois</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>(Joyeux anniversaire, Renée)</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Sainte-Geneviève des Bois - le cimetière

The Russian Orthodox Cemetery at Sainte-Geneviève des Bois Although I have only seen this cemetery in the fall,  in any month one imagines t...

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Cimetière Montparnasse

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh_t1N9PdDlA0PmGsNtv-ry5O3W54wHn0c89UI8N2-BKeMhMmRbCpxInZfP3lu4dSjgIsvvpKsIzJ1nOHwa033twT_ferSggjSnPbpemhQw9Aj9b-XZvs5K6t8CTcr50Rrn7E4M4qVnJA/s1600/2011+nov+3+DSC_0603.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" rea="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh_t1N9PdDlA0PmGsNtv-ry5O3W54wHn0c89UI8N2-BKeMhMmRbCpxInZfP3lu4dSjgIsvvpKsIzJ1nOHwa033twT_ferSggjSnPbpemhQw9Aj9b-XZvs5K6t8CTcr50Rrn7E4M4qVnJA/s640/2011+nov+3+DSC_0603.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A photographer can often capture a scene and not know the heartfelt story.  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In this case, we can supply our own memories and a story perhaps.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Cimetière Montparnasse</em></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Métro Raspail (there are several)</em></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>75014, Paris</em></span>

Cimetière Montparnasse

A photographer can often capture a scene and not know the heartfelt story.  In this case, we can supply our own memories and a story perhaps...

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Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois - Ginko leaves

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIaA3m-mVn7ByqArRbmZ9gZdH2hIXU3a3VCEEehHURi8mp2l2p_P0rQk-SOIzS3c5uIMKV-WsFFzwEU1bmBLs1gLj9kpy56gZuchLrBrvMQiutwi1p4tD6rZCvYu74bk2-1M91nfd1QdU/s1600/2011+nov+7+cemetery+DSC_0274.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" dda="true" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIaA3m-mVn7ByqArRbmZ9gZdH2hIXU3a3VCEEehHURi8mp2l2p_P0rQk-SOIzS3c5uIMKV-WsFFzwEU1bmBLs1gLj9kpy56gZuchLrBrvMQiutwi1p4tD6rZCvYu74bk2-1M91nfd1QdU/s640/2011+nov+7+cemetery+DSC_0274.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A carpeted path of gold...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Russian Orthodox Cemetery</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois - Ginko leaves

A carpeted path of gold... Russian Orthodox Cemetery Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois

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Cimetière Montmartre

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2yi7xG0fy5zjxxK8fhfDBCEHmz690yHu2AT-Xh9OuiRzUUIhARq6EyK0OCnUw2zHfGpdMcIv_EyMW90NNErAeBO79399ISxBTbWNP7u2HE4tLDWH4Fzj3wTjVtjLDlnDwSLh42LRg5bM/s1600/2011+april+5+DSC_0480.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="529" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2yi7xG0fy5zjxxK8fhfDBCEHmz690yHu2AT-Xh9OuiRzUUIhARq6EyK0OCnUw2zHfGpdMcIv_EyMW90NNErAeBO79399ISxBTbWNP7u2HE4tLDWH4Fzj3wTjVtjLDlnDwSLh42LRg5bM/s640/2011+april+5+DSC_0480.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When I visit a city, I always search out the cemeteries.  This was my first trip to Montmartre, and it was regrettably closed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We could only peer from the bridge down the lonely center road  </div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>

Cimetière Montmartre

When I visit a city, I always search out the cemeteries.  This was my first trip to Montmartre, and it was regrettably closed. We could only...

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Père Lachaise - Thomas Couture

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLvf7UF68q8BPkpNM5Ww2tYGvxJjtwovPltTEmF-QHvbe6GtpCNfon6mOLO2-FXjpNv_OZbsgIeMJMrp6cNO7xkqJcynuKVHqIW6-VDyzXkc9hItlm0Xn14t0UhrdVosYLt3fyrYjpGJg/s1600/2009+dec+hhb+IMG_0120d.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5642766536400619986" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLvf7UF68q8BPkpNM5Ww2tYGvxJjtwovPltTEmF-QHvbe6GtpCNfon6mOLO2-FXjpNv_OZbsgIeMJMrp6cNO7xkqJcynuKVHqIW6-VDyzXkc9hItlm0Xn14t0UhrdVosYLt3fyrYjpGJg/s640/2009+dec+hhb+IMG_0120d.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Couture"><strong>Thomas Couture</strong> </a>was a classical 19th Century history painter and portraitist, most famous for his "<a href="http://hoocher.com/Thomas_Couture/Thomas_Couture.htm"><strong>Romans in the Decadence of the Empire</strong></a>" found today in Musée D'Orsay at a grand 472 x 772 cm (15 feet by 25 feet).<br /><br /><br /><br />He was critical of the moral decadence of France under the July monarchy (the ruling class) and alluding to French society the "Romans" of his masterpiece translated to "French in the Decadence." He later left Paris and started his own school, and among his students were Edouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

Père Lachaise - Thomas Couture

Thomas Couture was a classical 19th Century history painter and portraitist, most famous for his " Romans in the Decadence of the Empi...

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Père Lachaise X

<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFMXIbYotn5lVA4n1pQmIWsm7y6TKXHvk3t8_MHLeZev7ZW7lK4QolHF3UvrI8-pek_UY0S1TbCpA97EW6m6OiohWH_FgFmfJP1wD6fTbY-Qe3BkLP1XJ65V3DJC52TZMVXmu-6fohwl0/s1600/2008+july+paris+DSC_0100.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610120806033475682" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFMXIbYotn5lVA4n1pQmIWsm7y6TKXHvk3t8_MHLeZev7ZW7lK4QolHF3UvrI8-pek_UY0S1TbCpA97EW6m6OiohWH_FgFmfJP1wD6fTbY-Qe3BkLP1XJ65V3DJC52TZMVXmu-6fohwl0/s640/2008+july+paris+DSC_0100.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Granite, limestone, marble, painstakingly chisled...</span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;">Shades of green, either paint or patina....</span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;">Canopy of trees fully leafed for the season...</span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;">All in quiet homage to those who have gone...</span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><br /><div align="center"></div>

Père Lachaise X

Granite, limestone, marble, painstakingly chisled... Shades of green, either paint or patina.... Canopy of trees fully leafed for the season...

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Père Lachaise IX - Forlorn

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhISQtW5zno4Nfd8S_0cyKLYUGv-tETfZFQAMv96gmnuAXaz8jxVxwxwj0LDX9QvQAt2OsAe3JcGRI9Q5rzHmGaTtIp8x7dekS4aGq2CnBjY1-YgjgwbgvVRMYEvR3Bk_a-x-RNfcIA984/s1600/2008+july+paris+DSC_0110.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594111288419337266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhISQtW5zno4Nfd8S_0cyKLYUGv-tETfZFQAMv96gmnuAXaz8jxVxwxwj0LDX9QvQAt2OsAe3JcGRI9Q5rzHmGaTtIp8x7dekS4aGq2CnBjY1-YgjgwbgvVRMYEvR3Bk_a-x-RNfcIA984/s640/2008+july+paris+DSC_0110.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;; ;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Quite often I think of cemeteries in terms of black and white, but she was just too lovely with her alabaster-like skin offset by the dark green foliage to take out the color.

Père Lachaise IX - Forlorn

Quite often I think of cemeteries in terms of black and white, but she was just too lovely with her alabaster-like skin offset by the dark g...

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Père Lachaise VIII - Shadows

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4IYzKcpTaOBIOpxHDQrfeMRObrZH5yKRqrkqoZnT270uZ5mw_rv7f1xA_Y1sFFuzZsRXa-D9dHbvg8cRKzbzzJC7-9V0-qQAJnyrro0wShj_Gygf4nQp86UsEgfSbE6B38xvlEQDc3bE/s1600/2009+dec+paris+holly+IMG_0124.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577018199230759442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4IYzKcpTaOBIOpxHDQrfeMRObrZH5yKRqrkqoZnT270uZ5mw_rv7f1xA_Y1sFFuzZsRXa-D9dHbvg8cRKzbzzJC7-9V0-qQAJnyrro0wShj_Gygf4nQp86UsEgfSbE6B38xvlEQDc3bE/s640/2009+dec+paris+holly+IMG_0124.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;">The long shadows of winter are perfect for casting shadows on the tomb walls. The twisted bare tree branches reach up in contrast to the crystal blue sky over Père Lachaise.</span></div><div> </div><div> </div>

Père Lachaise VIII - Shadows

The long shadows of winter are perfect for casting shadows on the tomb walls. The twisted bare tree branches reach up in contrast to the cr...

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Père Lachaise - room with a view

<span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWDV4MPMPh5zdOKWq7B7xCeLEHKiyq3aTR7sDegVTKEFC_EFvYu4eQ4c-1hPODbi_wmMVRr83qolnOdWQeKkvZagaL46lDWeNJV0XJoEwBGW6jTyz-IxtfDikq25WIrjrDMPVuE2EFnPA/s1600/2009+dec+paris+00386.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559666177436742146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWDV4MPMPh5zdOKWq7B7xCeLEHKiyq3aTR7sDegVTKEFC_EFvYu4eQ4c-1hPODbi_wmMVRr83qolnOdWQeKkvZagaL46lDWeNJV0XJoEwBGW6jTyz-IxtfDikq25WIrjrDMPVuE2EFnPA/s640/2009+dec+paris+00386.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Known as the "grandest address in Paris" this cemetery of over 100 acres is the final resting place of both the famous and the infamous. It is a great place to wander with a purpose, perhaps to find the tomb of Chopin and Delacroix, or to <em>flâner</em> the cobblestone paths admiring the beauty of times past. Maps are available at the front entrance <em>gratuit</em> if you want a purposeful search.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Cimetière du Père-Lachaise<br /></span></div></span><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Boulevard de Ménilmontant</span></div><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Métro Père Lachaise, or<br />Métro Phillippe Auguste<br /></span>

Père Lachaise - room with a view

Known as the "grandest address in Paris" this cemetery of over 100 acres is the final resting place of both the famous and the inf...

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Père Lachaise VI

<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOLVwnI0JyKvecK43AA8eR8htgVriS69J9QYkslFDxHXvK0A2_3cneqX-JwFJc8LTQU8DMq-dVOh4NjB5W-fTMYarfQVgatlWdX1OmrgLM5cicFTb36q_iWv6_LiBD5ys3qS4MODAQWJ8/s1600/2009+dec+paris+IMG_0110+cropped+b-w.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545720741933911458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOLVwnI0JyKvecK43AA8eR8htgVriS69J9QYkslFDxHXvK0A2_3cneqX-JwFJc8LTQU8DMq-dVOh4NjB5W-fTMYarfQVgatlWdX1OmrgLM5cicFTb36q_iWv6_LiBD5ys3qS4MODAQWJ8/s640/2009+dec+paris+IMG_0110+cropped+b-w.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><font size="4" face="arial">What a heavy load to bear...</font></div><br /><div align="center"><font size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div><br /><div align="center"> </div>

Père Lachaise VI

What a heavy load to bear...

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Père Lachaise V

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEica5Mc9MmHcMhxeecoKK6InKd_9udF21ymg7u82xMZDTcJTeicHEmcWNmd1SM9pGbka8GMo7ewUIKOEYNDKSErYdHWHIuogcyLGE6ixX6miUY-eAwNoKqyYxrrafIK6k31RJBlCeSYpJs/s1600/2009+dec+paris+00380+blog.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542589308298302258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEica5Mc9MmHcMhxeecoKK6InKd_9udF21ymg7u82xMZDTcJTeicHEmcWNmd1SM9pGbka8GMo7ewUIKOEYNDKSErYdHWHIuogcyLGE6ixX6miUY-eAwNoKqyYxrrafIK6k31RJBlCeSYpJs/s640/2009+dec+paris+00380+blog.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">An often-photographed path of Père Lachaise...</span></div><p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"></p></span><div align="center"><br /></div>

Père Lachaise V

An often-photographed path of Père Lachaise...

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One-way path....

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB8jwZOfUwgy0gBblv4iOQ3H3A_B29aZHkdIC0RDx9wa_nlRxitoDopUi7fqBcSjvk4PF7gm7IpEktrqY3-QIP3X_EZbcdGtzu6QIQP13x_KuGojAxdxYPg4qLMatMtnAM-7E06g87SEc/s1600/2009+dec+paris+00362blog.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534786815742151906" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB8jwZOfUwgy0gBblv4iOQ3H3A_B29aZHkdIC0RDx9wa_nlRxitoDopUi7fqBcSjvk4PF7gm7IpEktrqY3-QIP3X_EZbcdGtzu6QIQP13x_KuGojAxdxYPg4qLMatMtnAM-7E06g87SEc/s640/2009+dec+paris+00362blog.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; ; DISPLAY: block; ; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><div>Père Lachaise is so large that I cannot imagine ever seeing all of its narrow paths, marble cherubs, forlorn flowers on tombstones, and memorials to its famous and not-so-famous inhabitants.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I thought that the shadow on the left looks like a man in a bowler hat. Perhaps I should have looked over my shoulder. </div>

One-way path....

Père Lachaise is so large that I cannot imagine ever seeing all of its narrow paths, marble cherubs, forlorn flowers on tombstones, and memo...

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Lonesome cherub

<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN1agL8SIyWk_RVvB-e8dIrnu1EZA1Od1U-GvMoDY_LS8qAEh3n_p4fZjRiV4BJWT2c0z_aawfbgiHp2_t6vJ5TWgd5ifo9frciIh1Q2LAxldwjvqZVzYslTyPstV40jE6MHF11zIbAkM/s1600/2010+0620+Paris+DSC_0837blog.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530263842672283794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN1agL8SIyWk_RVvB-e8dIrnu1EZA1Od1U-GvMoDY_LS8qAEh3n_p4fZjRiV4BJWT2c0z_aawfbgiHp2_t6vJ5TWgd5ifo9frciIh1Q2LAxldwjvqZVzYslTyPstV40jE6MHF11zIbAkM/s640/2010+0620+Paris+DSC_0837blog.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">How many hundreds of little cherubs are to be found in the cimeteries of Paris?</span></div>

Lonesome cherub

How many hundreds of little cherubs are to be found in the cimeteries of Paris?

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