Just pretend...
Here I am, starving, and waiting for my shot at Paris Breakfast!
Well pretend, Merisi, this is your cup of cafe creme...
Why oh why do New York cafes think they can "pretend" to be Parisian? Give it up New York cafes Pls.!Look on any New York cafe tabletop. Do you see reflections like these? Malheureusement (unhappily) you do not.
Pretend your great novel is not going so well...
So what!
You're in Paris
The sun is shining
You can happily nurse your on cup of espresso till the cows come home. No one will care one way or the other...
Well pretend, Merisi, this is your cup of cafe creme...
Why oh why do New York cafes think they can "pretend" to be Parisian? Give it up New York cafes Pls.!Look on any New York cafe tabletop. Do you see reflections like these? Malheureusement (unhappily) you do not.
Pretend your great novel is not going so well...So what!
You're in Paris
The sun is shining
You can happily nurse your on cup of espresso till the cows come home. No one will care one way or the other...
Only in Paris.
Just pretend you're passing this perfect cafe table on your way to Gawd knows where... imagine coming back for dinner with an exciting stranger...
Hmmm...the l'addition (bill) has arrived...
Hmmm...the dregs in your cup are talking to you...
Time to get on your bicycle and go off to the real world.Still it's fun to pretend...sigh
BONJOUR WEEK-END!
I love your Blog!! I posted about Angelina's today. And yes NY cafe's do not compare. Thanks for posting fun stuff...grace
ReplyDeleteso worth the wait today....love it...I'm pretending all the way home....have a bonne weekend!
ReplyDeleteI want to thank you for a beautiful blog.
ReplyDeleteEvery picture, every detail takes me to Paris.
I’m already in love with a city I have never been to!
And thank you also for making the blog in English, I’ve been studying French for 2 years now and I'm still very rusty.
merci
G.
Love this watercolor, Carol! So much to enjoy. Are you left-handed, by the way?
ReplyDeleteNO!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm not a south paw like Obama
never are you?
Note the cat is facing left..I can't hardly paint a cat facing to the right
EVER!!!
I love reflection pictures!
ReplyDeleteIs that a tiger in that first picture?????
Love,
Anniw
That's Morris The Cat.
ReplyDeleteCouldn't you tell?
cg
Bastille Day soon?
ReplyDeleteTomorrow morning, I will not just pretend I'm at a Parisian terrace ..I will be there !!! However, it's not very hot to stay outside, we need the New York sun!
ReplyDeleteBonjour Carol!
ReplyDeleteI must tell you how much I enjoy the photo of an empty coffee cup sitting on a Parisian cafe table with a reflection of an eighteenth century building. Surrounding it - those Parsian bent wood chairs with the familiar red checker board pattern cloth.
Have a great summer!
Stef
Yes!! I'm there all the way!
ReplyDeleteno problem and
Thank you.
Constance
i will have to pretend always living where i live...until i steal away on my next trip across the great pond.
ReplyDeleteenjoyed the post today :)
Your illustration's are always exquisite. I so love the last photo with the bike. ♥
ReplyDeleteHi Carol, It is so easy to pretend with you as our guide! Thanks for the trip! Can we meet for coffee at one of those lovely cafes? Are you going to have more cafe watercolors for sale? They are wonderful!
ReplyDeleteBon week-end. Jan
Thank you for a wonderful dream.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! I am soooooo there.
ReplyDeleteI am going to pretend all the way to the supermarket.....xv
ReplyDeleteAm still waiting for my exciting l'Etranger to turn up.... :-(
ReplyDeleteAny Parisian hommes with berets these days, or is that a myth?
Bon weekend ;-)
I really, really wish I could click my ruby slippers together, saying, "There's NO place like Paris, there's NO place like Paris!" and be there.
ReplyDeleteSigh....
Thanks for the trips, by way of blogworld. There's a stay-at-home mom in Montana that has nearly wrecked her keyboard, drooling over your posts.
I just wanted to send you a cup of coffee from Tel Aviv and to tell
ReplyDeleteyou that I very much enjoy your daily input. By the way I am French,
from Lyon
Keep up our pleasure.
Jacquie
But sometimes it is so good to pretend. I had coffee in downtown Trondheim today and pretended I was in Vienna with Merisi. I had such a lovely time with her :-)
ReplyDeleteYour blog always makes me feel so happy to be living in Paris! I loooove it so much too!
ReplyDeleteDo sign up to my daily newsletter about confidential secrets from Paris!
xoxo
www.chicsetera.com
I HATE your blog!!! Every time I peek in I wish I was in Paris. It's been almost 5 years since I wandered the streets and I don't see my next trip happening anytime soon.
ReplyDeleteWell, at least I can live vicariously through PB.
I pretend all the time. I couldn't possibly get enough of this fabulous city, and country! :)
ReplyDeleteI so need a coffee at a Parisian cafe, someone take me NOW!
ReplyDeleteI dont get it! what makes you think the cafes in NY are pretending to be like the parisian ones... they seem different to me
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