I’m back. Sorry about the absence. Sometimes there are glitches that you can’t do anything about until the week-end is over.
Anyway, here are some photos of a great day I had in Paris.

One of the entrances to the Louvre Museum.

I love this view of the pyramid from the entrance leading into the square.

A view looking down into a courtyard which was covered when the pyramid was contstructed. The four figures were once around a fountain.

The fountains haven’t been working for over a year. Some of them still aren’t. I think the pyramid looks best when there is water is the ponds. The duck likes it too.

This is the view towards the Tuleries gardens with the pyramid at my back. The little hedge surrounds the top of the inverted pyramid of The Da Vinci Code fame.

Some more photos from my first sunny day in Paris.

A row of pots filled with lavender running down my favorite line of columns at Palais Royal.

They also had pots of various plants, mainly rose bushes, with close up photos of the flower.

Conceptual art in the Palais Royal. When I first saw it I didn’t like it, much like the pyramid at the Louvre, but I like it now, especially the way people interact with it.

One of the typical metro entrances seen in Paris.

It was finally sunny this morning in Paris-I’m here for a short visit-so I got out to take some photos.

Near the Louvre Museum is this view of the Garnier Opera House at the end of a boulevard-the kind that Hausmann, that great urban designer, was so fond of.

This is a metro entrance in Place Colette near the Palais Royal made of hand blown glass from Murano, Italy.

Close-up of the glass.

A restaurant on Place Colette that is a great place to sit in the sun.

They are celebrating flowers and gardens in Paris right now and my favorite fountains in Palais Royal are surrounded by flowers and lavender.