Jardin du Luxembourg - une tortue verte

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgkZupDd8ldXZD8rtTmPTPuKxfuBEJmBXw346izM3BEYWgcwZl8J9C-4hpsv5Oat1syjv5kEuJ_ebBLyEIG9Qbme86noZDy3eLN-Qe8zt27md2iSKA4APnqHO9q6P4X6cGXlQgTchxZ3c/s1600/2012+Jan+15+2nd_0508.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgkZupDd8ldXZD8rtTmPTPuKxfuBEJmBXw346izM3BEYWgcwZl8J9C-4hpsv5Oat1syjv5kEuJ_ebBLyEIG9Qbme86noZDy3eLN-Qe8zt27md2iSKA4APnqHO9q6P4X6cGXlQgTchxZ3c/s640/2012+Jan+15+2nd_0508.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;">A green turtle in</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jardin du Luxembourg</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;">This young fellow with a jacket and mittens</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> to match his green turtle seems in a daze.</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;">Is he wishing that he had jumped on the <span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://parisandbeyond-genie.blogspot.com/2013/03/yah-yah-plus-vite-cheval.html" target="_blank">cart led by a stallion</a></b> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">which would surely be faster than <i>une tortue</i>? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></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;">Jardin du Luxembourg</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75006, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></div>

Jardin du Luxembourg - une tortue verte

A green turtle in Jardin du Luxembourg This young fellow with a jacket and mittens  to match his green turtle seems in a daze. Is he wishing...

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Bassin principal - Jardin du Luxembourg

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk75t1KvzotXCqCEU22KAeCZGlYR9KpCPMuVBtmvR_XD8kMVDNFHgEO0YMff1bvQLWe4Ux2wjfwy2eA6tbt8yshIMKWOiHcmQRjxwwcMTHWlLzE5Bweg1d_sD3lGbvyQiugKdNO6-yIuw/s1600/2004+July++066.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk75t1KvzotXCqCEU22KAeCZGlYR9KpCPMuVBtmvR_XD8kMVDNFHgEO0YMff1bvQLWe4Ux2wjfwy2eA6tbt8yshIMKWOiHcmQRjxwwcMTHWlLzE5Bweg1d_sD3lGbvyQiugKdNO6-yIuw/s640/2004+July++066.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;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">If ever you are in Paris alone, Jardin du Luxembourg will provide your entertainment.  </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;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sailing boats in the octagonal basin</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Watching a lively game of pétanque</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Taking a ride on a very simple carrousel</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Checking on the bees at the apiary</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Enjoying a performance in the theatre of marionnettes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Playing a sport: tennis or basketball</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Strolling through the shaded gardens</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;">or</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;">Reading a book in a familiar green chair</span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Jardin du Luxembourg</em></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>75006, Paris</em></span>

Bassin principal - Jardin du Luxembourg

If ever you are in Paris alone, Jardin du Luxembourg will provide your entertainment.  Sailing boats in the octagonal basin Watching a livel...

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Jardin du Luxembourg - bateau à voile

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPElMWcX0_kCqrEchHkQRq-Er05SL9Inom2jK1UkB0zGWCCkBm8QeolaK5UQ75zcgimXWJBrL_PLNsZkkxaS21jvCVSVETOSUgucG8E-4g695buHGedSpVxt0AGGw3MOtUUrJ0r9v-j1s/s1600/2012+april+1++5667DSC_5751.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" pca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPElMWcX0_kCqrEchHkQRq-Er05SL9Inom2jK1UkB0zGWCCkBm8QeolaK5UQ75zcgimXWJBrL_PLNsZkkxaS21jvCVSVETOSUgucG8E-4g695buHGedSpVxt0AGGw3MOtUUrJ0r9v-j1s/s640/2012+april+1++5667DSC_5751.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;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Please disregard my earlier comments on "Paris colors" as apparently <em>rose foncé</em>, or bright pink as I would call it <strong><u>is</u></strong> quite popular in the city as seen here on this little boat in the center of the hexagon basin of Jardin du Luxembourg.</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;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">May your sails be full as you head into the weekend </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">with a nice reflection on the previous week.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span></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>Hexagon basin</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Jardin du Luxembourg</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>75006, Paris</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>(For more reflections come to <a href="http://weekendreflection.blogspot.com/2012/06/day-at-beach-weekend-reflections-142.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>James' Weekend Reflections</strong></span></a>!)</em></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Jardin du Luxembourg - bateau à voile

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Zoom-zoom - Jardin du Luxembourg

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe8cQUKPdVZOtIW90i0teZd-BRMsYAPWI_zhVtIkSHpnARSMb-O5oSSNSqnDwMofkmUCJJvqAFK0XCgOYVh-3MGWwg3M_KmhVWg3eJi04k-IotJZmkE7r7ZD1DrSNo9XBylY3xGj1Wy74/s1600/2012+jan+15++2nd_0478.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe8cQUKPdVZOtIW90i0teZd-BRMsYAPWI_zhVtIkSHpnARSMb-O5oSSNSqnDwMofkmUCJJvqAFK0XCgOYVh-3MGWwg3M_KmhVWg3eJi04k-IotJZmkE7r7ZD1DrSNo9XBylY3xGj1Wy74/s640/2012+jan+15++2nd_0478.jpg" uda="true" 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;">Unless you have seen Jardin du Luxembourg on a weekend afternoon you cannot imagine the number of activities, families, children, singles...</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;">Yes, you can even have a pony ride, a real one.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You can ride a carrousel with brass rings.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You can play a game of Pétanque.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You can sail a boat.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You can read a book while seated in a green chair with your feet propped on a fountain.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You can frolic on a playground that would never be allowed in our litigious country.</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;">You can even get pulled around in a little green roadster... zoom-zoom!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Jardin du Luxembourg</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>75006 Paris</em></span></div>

Zoom-zoom - Jardin du Luxembourg

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Les fleurs rose

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-aLDUH65RVFVwEpKhYjwdhwjhvV34n-Ld844IQoW1rY-gFiuKtKyHY6gyRGfofB5ouzXIF_T5ADr8L_J6MfLXbcEZ2nV6Cl1y8qvlNpjtl5XrFU49F8-ylRfGfdDeQ-qPzZMwqfVhzhk/s1600/DSC_0800straighten-b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508314115370814162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-aLDUH65RVFVwEpKhYjwdhwjhvV34n-Ld844IQoW1rY-gFiuKtKyHY6gyRGfofB5ouzXIF_T5ADr8L_J6MfLXbcEZ2nV6Cl1y8qvlNpjtl5XrFU49F8-ylRfGfdDeQ-qPzZMwqfVhzhk/s640/DSC_0800straighten-b.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><div>Before summer is totally behind us, I thought the beautiful blue Paris skies in the Jardin du Luxembourg would bring you another glimpse of l'été à Paris.</div><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div> </div><div align="center"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">I'm off on an adventure with Nanette to find some castanets -- I will still be posting daily but with fewer comments until I return.</span></em></div><div></div>

Les fleurs rose

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La fontaine Médicis -- A quiet place

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicS2vaBozFm23qA8h3ldJbjzh-JJYQnc5v6dLbw4m4NHTmMa5EgiA8iArNlzOSAl6U2H97AuqOhyphenhyphenQIzY9votLWYsXV9TSsrCacB_s4y0E3uB4jlW8ZI0cQznTf-PSSX58o134bbNZyK7w/s1600/DSC_0783saturated.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496950793182525730" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicS2vaBozFm23qA8h3ldJbjzh-JJYQnc5v6dLbw4m4NHTmMa5EgiA8iArNlzOSAl6U2H97AuqOhyphenhyphenQIzY9votLWYsXV9TSsrCacB_s4y0E3uB4jlW8ZI0cQznTf-PSSX58o134bbNZyK7w/s640/DSC_0783saturated.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><div>After<span style="color:#000000;"> <strong>Starman's</strong></span> request to feature Catherine de Médicis' fountain in Jardin du Luxembourg, I wondered if I would risk saying that it is my favorite "quiet place" in Paris. A risk, because with each trip to Paris comes the discovery of new favorites and wondering if at some point in the future I would have to toss this special place aside for un nouveau endroit. Certainly someone will remind me if/when that time comes. Hummm, a dilemma.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>This is not a secret place but mostly a quiet, shaded, cool space in the enormous, multi-faceted Jardin du Luxembourg. The fountain is found just east of the Sénat with the closest entrance at Place P. Claudel. The long basin of water is shaded by a canopy of plane trees, inviting a contemplative atmosphere. The familiar green chairs line the two sides of the basin backed by a screen of draped green garlands, shielding the scene from the less serene areas of the park seen <span style="color:#ffcc00;"><a href="http://parisandbeyond-genie.blogspot.com/2010/07/jardin-du-luxembourg-un-repit-petit.html">here</a></span>. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I will bring you back here again, but will leave you with this thought. <span style="font-size:180%;">This is my favorite quiet place in Paris.</span> There now-- I've said it. </div><br /><div></div>

La fontaine Médicis -- A quiet place

After Starman's request to feature Catherine de Médicis' fountain in Jardin du Luxembourg, I wondered if I would risk saying that ...

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Jardin du Luxembourg -- un répit petit

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9g8U2HTgV3ImP2AdsaNHrNkg9lRX8JtIUBRK8dw57FOoi3bCBu2wTv7d_mL2Rqzbi68uKepkdMciFswOvbvoDSLMqW4bpiUZgu_NWlis4iUEagQMCfMMrCO2WK4o-Fxam4h8g_kxCz4A/s1600/DSC_0190cropped2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496543898239679586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9g8U2HTgV3ImP2AdsaNHrNkg9lRX8JtIUBRK8dw57FOoi3bCBu2wTv7d_mL2Rqzbi68uKepkdMciFswOvbvoDSLMqW4bpiUZgu_NWlis4iUEagQMCfMMrCO2WK4o-Fxam4h8g_kxCz4A/s640/DSC_0190cropped2.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><br /><div>You could spend at least a week in le Jardin du Luxembourg and not grow weary of the scene. It can be a quiet place to read, even on the busiest weekends. It affords little corners for reflecting and musing -- True to the expectations of une étrangère I hear the tender words of lovers on one side of the gravel path and the playful squeals of children on the other. In certain areas, there are people on the grass but not on this lawn! </div><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div>Arrive early to find a coveted green chair, and once "installed" in a prime location there is no rush to leave. In warm weather the hexagon-shaped basin will be full of activity as young children maneuver sailboats across its surface and the resident ducks seem to enjoy the action. From my observation, there are as well some full-grown fish (perhaps bass?) </div><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div>You may be surprised at day's end that your book has not even been opened -- too much else to enjoy. </div><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaSQIyj6yIEzKmcR_Lyjmqkw8S-4rqhEFwoEGXx96BLMkHPIA_xSsRsaGTuodOuYIjJ0Vtu7EEvsY6bsYr6ZQo_f7wJgYdCz1HFOyVIvF7or8fzok0YfR9ivJJ0Aj3mI2DvxYn5PQZCgs/s1600/DSC_0194saturated.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496542530155717586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaSQIyj6yIEzKmcR_Lyjmqkw8S-4rqhEFwoEGXx96BLMkHPIA_xSsRsaGTuodOuYIjJ0Vtu7EEvsY6bsYr6ZQo_f7wJgYdCz1HFOyVIvF7or8fzok0YfR9ivJJ0Aj3mI2DvxYn5PQZCgs/s320/DSC_0194saturated.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 213px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><div></div>

Jardin du Luxembourg -- un répit petit

You could spend at least a week in le Jardin du Luxembourg and not grow weary of the scene. It can be a quiet place to read, even on the bus...

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