Spring green

A month or so ago I was looking for spring, and then a few weeks later I found blooms galore. It occurred to me that I shouldn't only be taking photos of spring flowers, but I should also be gathering some 'spring green'. The intense, bright, fresh, yellow-green that we are being treated to so much of at the moment.

We went to the Parc André-Citroën in the 15th the other day and they have coloured themed gardens. One of the colours was green, le jardin vert.






There was plenty of green at the Porte de Montmartre food market the other morning. I bought some of this coriander.


Parc Monceau is a riot of intense colours at the moment with signs of new growth everywhere.


This tree looked fabulous with the bright green against the silvery tree trunk.


The leaves on this tree in the Marais were just opening out, I love the contrast of green against blue.


At Parc de Bercy it was hard to tell which were the greenest, the trees or the pond.


A mallard duck waddles in green in the Square des Batignolles.


Here are some green grass glasses at the Parc Floral.


In Donegal in Ireland you find this intense green in the middle of summer.




Some people take this spring green business so seriously they like to match their bicycle lock, with their bike, with spring green.


Some animals like to be spring green too...with a touch of red, not to overkill.

Please...take a seat

Parisian park chairs and benches are an important and enduring symbol of the City of Lights. 

Perhaps most notable are the green chairs to be found in the Jardin Luxembourg or the Jardin des Tuilleries. They sometimes gather together in clusters...

...or on their own.

I saw these in the Merci Concept Store, the Parisian park chair has become a sought after trendy icon.

Here is a bench in the Parc de Bercy, the very pale mint green is unusual for a Paris park bench.

More benches in the park below the Sacré Cœur.

Periodically a park bench will disappear and return a week later, freshly painted. I think this may happen to these quite soon.

Here are two chairs in the Tando Ando Meditation Space at UNESCO. 

Artists' chairs on the Place de Tertre.

Shiny chairs at Parc de la Villette.

And then of course there are the infamous Parisian café chairs. 

Red ones. With snow

Without snow.

Red and black.

Light brown.

Middle brown.

Dark brown.

Turquoise.

And of course, rainbow chairs as seen stacked outside the L'Eté en Pente Douce cafe just to the east of the Sacré Cœur.