Would you believe that I’ve been doing this for ten years? It didn’t start as a blog because, I believe, they didn’t exist yet. A few year after I started the website I turned it into a blog and here we are. I have no give aways as I didn’t realize it at the time. In any case, thanks for going through life in France with me. It’s been fun. And there’s lots more to come!

I was in the area of the beautiful church, Saint Sulpice, the other day, now famous because it was written of in the best seller, The Da Vinci Code.

Here’s a look at the front. When I first moved to Paris about ten years ago (!) I attended a French class near here and the tower on the right side was covered in scaffolding for about three years. Then they moved to the left tower and it was covered in scaffolding for years as well.

Here is is all shiny and white. You can tell that the tower on the right has already gotten darker in color. Did you notice that they are different from each other? Plans were made to change them both but the Revolution brought things to a stand still and the work was never finished.

I love the fountain in front. It’s one of my favorites in Paris.

A table set up not too far away. The red rose on the black surface looked great.

A sweet little dog in front of a shop. I saw so many dogs on this day. I’d have a dog, I think, if it didn’t need walking several times a day, rain or shine.

I’ve posted photos from this gallerie before. I think it is one of the most beautiful ones left in Paris.

They discovered in the late 1700′s that people liked shopping under a roof with paving underfoot and many were built. Only a few remain today.

A nice tea room there.

The glass ceiling under a dome.

The gallery of the nearby Palais Royal.

I was in the neighborhood of the Luxembourg Garden and made a quick stop to look at the flowers there. They are always spectacular. I was surprised to find nothing in the big pots that they have there but they had done an outstanding job with tulips in the beds. The money for the landscaping here isn’t from the city but from the Senate itself which meets in the Luxembourg Palace there.

The garden is right down the hill from the Pantheon, burial site for many famous French authors.

Loved the angel with the pink tulips at her feet. I actually stood on the grass to take this photo, a big no no, but there didn’t appear to be any police about and people were sitting or lying everywhere on the lawn there.

A happy Pan dancing above yellow tulips.

The trees now have leaves and, as usual, have been trimmed into a military line.

Another window seen across my courtyard. (All by accident-I never try to pry into the lives of people)

I was looking out my bedroom window this afternoon when I happened to notice an open window with a tray on the bed holding the leftovers of a breakfast for two. I thought it looked sweet so took a photo with my Iphone and my favorite application. A little Rear Window action going on. When I open the window I can hear all sorts of life going on.