Talking about Teal

Not just Easter bunnies are fond of Teal blue this season. For the past year I've been bumping into Teal all over Paris.

The name of the color comes from the Common Teal duck

With it's patch of true blue placed uniquely by it's eye.

The French are following suit with patches of blue.

Let the blue stay on the parrot says AirFrance...and patch your eyes with a dash of red shadow...

RIO 2 is about to open. Plenty of Teal blues on show.

Teal blue must be good for selling movies. Granted Noah is about the deep blue sea..

French banks love blue - the color of stability.

Teal Bleu is taking years off Johnny Hallyday in this movie poster...

Metro Miromesnil has a thing for Teal bleu chaise

Nothing to do with blue but FYI, when you check these maps for the correct exit to take, DO notice which way the little arrow of the stairway is pointing. I can't count how many times I've taken the right exit but walked the wrong direction down the wrong street.

Confisier Boissier has had an ongoing love affair with Teal even though they say blue food is a no-no.

Looks fine to me.

Bunny in a blue chemise/shirt dressed to deliver those oeufs/eggs.

My favorite chocolate shop in Paris A La Mere du Famille has teal tiles on the floor-miam

My last sublet was so full of Teal blue I was spinning. Surely R. loved blue or so I thought...

Blue bed spread, blue flower, blue towels, blue phone, you name it. The blue trash bag was my contribution.

When the time came for the handover of the keys, I thought it would be amusing to give her a little bottle of Teal blue nail polish to use wherever.

Evidently she did not think so...

She told me, "Blue is not my color".

 

More blue food - crocs(jelly candy from Haribo) across the street at the bus station.

Blue pools at the gardens of Versailles with AirFrance wheels taking off just above in the other bus station. 

Monday was the BIG day for my visa appointment at the Prefecture. I first chose Teal blue folders for my papers. Then decided it would be safer to use the staid, numbered divders from last year's visa presentation. I've been going through all kinds of self-inflicted Medieval tortures here while gathering these official documents. I am not good with lots of pieces of paper covered with numbers and in a foreign language. Who is? 

But I had a stroke of luck at the appointment. The first person was checking my papers to see if all was in order before she could send me on to the next checker, all the while conversing with my lawyer totally in French, I happened to hear the word 'marriée?'

For some unknown reason I piped up, 

"JAMAIS!" (NEVER!)

The officials thought this was hysterical and immediately gave me a new appointment two weeks later with a 'Prioritée' classification at an earlier time (9:30 am so I might not have to wait 5 hours to be seen.)

Go figure.