Jardin des Tuileries with sun and stripes

On Sunday anybody who lives in Paris will know that it was a beautiful day. Blue blue skies, not a cloud, and mild. In order to try and catch as much sun as possible we headed to the Jardin des Tuileries which has large open spaces, and consequently a big sky, thus maximising our chances of catching the rays. It was such good medicine for the soul.

Look at this blue sky.

Gold looks better in the sun too, not to mention galloping horses.

We were treated to a moon as well.

The pigeons were still grumpy, however.

There were still a few puddles, but even they were bright.

I then became preoccupied with stripes. Long looooong winter shadows.

Sometimes the straight lines curled.

If you stand at the right angle the heavily pruned trees have a red fuzz around them.

Which close up looks like this.

We ended up having a tussle with a lion.

For more photos of the Jardin des Tuileries press here (thumbnails) or here (slide show)

Blue, turquoise, green

I saw this beautiful mosaic lettering on the facade of the église Saint-Jean de Montmartre, a brick clad reinforced concrete church, built between 1894 and 1904 on Place des Abbesses. The glass mosaics are tiny, no more than 5mm x 5mm. I had some fun with the photos I took. 

The mosaic tiles are lovely rich blues, turquoises and greens. I browsed though my photo collection looking for blues, turquoises and greens and came up with these.

Blue.

Turquoise.

Turquoise, green.

Green.

A lot more blues, turquoises and greens can be seen on my flickr account

Bleu, blanc et rouge

Yesterday morning up by the Sacré Coeur. Blue, red and white.

Place de Tertre before the crowds have arrived. Red, white and blue.

Moulin Rouge. Red, blue and white.

Brocante, Place des Abbesses. White, red and blue.