Cartier et al.

A corner on Place Vendôme, home to the Hôtel Ritz and some of the world's most prestigious jewelers.

Café terrace

Afternoon leisurely neighborhood café scene.

#Parisweloveyou

A #parisweloveyou sign covered in thousands of tiny photos of faces of...who else?...people who love Paris.

Aloft on the river

Two glass loft apartments on the Seine, as seen from Quai des Orfèvres.

"Two, please"

Iconic Paris: a table ready for two on a sidewalk terrace.

Bibliothèque Richelieu

 

Expansive reading room of this former Royal Library.

 

Petit Zinc

One of the prettiest of Paris' remaining art nouveau restaurants on a Left Bank corner.

Bio breads

A Montmartre boulangerie specializes in grain breads made from organic stone milled flours.

Au Pain Complet de Paris
bis, 59 rue du Mont Cenis 75018

Kid friendly

Window of tea room with organic smoothies, teas and home-made pastries near the Louvre Museum.

Shakespeare and more

Gathering place for English-speaking Paris with events, since 1919.

 

Shakespeare and Company
37 rue de la Bûcherie 75005

Church organ

Organ of l'Église Saint-Germain-des-Prés, once part of an ancient Benedictine abbey.

Man in white

Dressed all in white and with whitened hair this African man is a Left Bank habitué.

Graffiti deco

A cold beer on a warm June evening with graffiti as a backdrop.

Shadowy

 

Headless mannequins in a corridor of a shopping center galerie off the Champs-Élysées.

 

Black and blue

Black bike against blue storefront.

Framed by roses

A view of Nôtre Dame de Paris from a small park across the river.

Soggy Paris

After some welcome sunshine Paris braces itself for more wet weather.

Brush off

Paint brushes fill the window of an artist's atelier on a tiny street behind Place des Abbesses.

Book bags

Books decorate a boutique selling leather bags with chain straps.

Arc du Carrousel

The Arc du Carrousel opens onto the Tuileries Gardens. At the far end is the giant Ferris Wheel on Place de la Concorde.

Curiosities

Marvels from present and past on a Quartier Latin backstreet.

Memory lane

Inner courtyard of my first apartment in Paris.

Paris-Strasbourg

A painting by American artist Albert Herter (1914) dominates the entrance inside Gare de l'Est train station.

Corner boulanger

 

A charming boulangerie-pâtisserie near Les Invalides that's also a coffee shop.

 

House of the rising Seine

A houseboat awaits water levels to come down after heavy rains.

In the background, the Pont Neuf.

Now you see it...

  Stand in the right place and line it up just right, and watch the great Pyramide du Louvre disappear before your eyes.

Temporary installation by JR, Parisian photographer street artist

Big sky

The Eiffel Tower from a Montmartre hilltop.