More lovely birds whilst in the Versailles gift shop At the tail end of my trip, a visit to the magnificent and often overlooked Musee de Sevres- just a short trip on ligne #9 to the end and then a quick walk over the bridge - et voila - a fantastic historic collection of china from everywhere and all time periods. At Sevres this plate commemorating American bird species -the crow? Birds as decorative elements stalked me. Here on a tapestry chair at...? Ah at musee Nissim de Camondo and it was a folding screen not a chair! These lovebirds were busy cooing at Versailles on another screen...
I went to Rick's place again and spotted this old alphabet bird postcard lying around... Just a bit of old embroidered tapestry at the Bastille brocante. Note a bird is present amidst the flowers and bunnies...
Tons of birds symmetrically arranged on the fabrics at theMusee de la Toile de Jouy. I guess birds add a touch of life to these static repetitive designs..qui sait? Here at Chateau Chantilly, a Roman mosaic of lowly pigeons!
Much more life like than just purely decorative, these unidentifiable everyday birds in the elegant chambers of La Grande Singerie at Chantilly..
Passing by on rue de St. Peres - a great street for window gazing into very fine antique shops - these amusing birds perched on top of a gazebo in a print byAntoine Watteau
Oddly you do not see many birds and pastry together. Except here at Gerard Mulot's grand piece montee... These birds look like they escaped from a hat to me... BON JEUDI!
Yesterday I lost my favorite Parisian "drugstore" glasses.
Yesterday I left the apartment at 10 AM and got back at 11 PM and didn't get to post. Yesterday I was going to go to the Marche d'Aligre and the Salon du Chocolat.Instead I went to Musee Nissim de Camondo and Versailles
Musee Nissim de Camondo is a treasure house of fabulous antiques and not crowded. I loved the illustrated guide
Truly wonderful objets
Reflections in a car window
I'm enthralled with decorative door mantles/cartouches in the 8th enroute to the Metro to Versailles
I didn't get to Versailles till 3 PM when the crowds are supposed to be considerable less
The wait to buy a ticket was only 15 minutes. The guichet at the RER was ferme/closed. The machine would not take my credit card-no chip
The famed Hall of Mirrors
The contrast of Jeff Koon's shiny metalic sculptures in this environment is spectacular
The views out the windows - entrancing
I took the RER back and got off at Pont d'Alma to go to my sister's for dinner. After crossing the bridge and taking the obligatory photo of the Eiffel Tower I dropped my fav Fr drugstore glasses. I bought them in Paris 4 years ago
1st stop Patisserie Carette at Trocadero to get revived. Then I realized the glasses were gone - total blur like this shot
My chocolat chaud was terrific. I couldn't read the menu or the bill. Maybe a good thing
An extraordinary fleurist near my sister's. I crossed the street and bought new glasses in the pharmacie, so I could see and take pictures. My sister suggested we go to a different restaurant than planned. We would take the Metro to Pont d'Alma We got out and guess what? I saw something shiny on the ground where I'd taken the earlier photo. My lost GLASSES! Now I have 2 pair of drugstore glasses.
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