Butt out

A rare anti-litter campaign (68-euro fine per mégot), but why so few anti-smoking campaigns?

On sign: "350 tons of cigarette butts per year" cleaned off Paris streets then,
"Let's do the right thing. Let's respect Paris."

Open door

Door of an apartment building attached to L'Église Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis.

Salon de l'Agriculture

For those missing the countryside...

Paris International Agricultural Show

2018

Porte de Versailles

Ends Sunday March 4

Always check the label

A shopper carefully makes sure her choices are GMO and additive-free.

 

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Always check the bill

A customer scrutinizes his bill to make sure everything is on the up and up.

Daisy day

More eye-catching wall art signed Gregos.

Le sandwich

Despite the gluten and the calories (who's counting?) the baguette sandwich still reigns.
 

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Cat in a window

A cat contrasted against white lacy curtains.

Paris where art thou

 

City of Paris on a subway station wall with scribblings added. 

 

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Photos for sale

Black and white photographs set out on a Left Bank square.

Le Saint André

A popular corner café-bar on the Left Bank.

Head chef

From the kitchen chef pops his head out to see what's going on in the dining room.

 

 

Red head

A kiosk poster advertising cosmetics cheers up a dreary day.

Rose rose

- A Very Happy Saint Valentine's Day -

Graffiti and bicycle

Bike locked to a pole.

Blue door

A wonderful door on a side street in the Latin Quarter.

Winter white

Going into the weekend I couldn't resist posting one more photo from this week's fluorescent snowfall.

Sous la neige

Much of the snow had been cleared away or melted. Then a fresh layer fell the next evening.
 

A chance of snow

The day after up on the butte.

Into white

Paris woke up today to freshly fallen snow.

A bench on Place Dalida.

And everything emptying into white....  Cat Stevens

It takes a chef

 

 

Another extraordinary culinary experience, with extraordinary friends.

L'AG Les Halles

Alan Geaam, chef de cuisine

14 rue Mondétour 75001

Bottom photo: yes, that's seared foie gras...

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- Special Menu Saint-Valentin -

Reservations a must

...one of the best new restaurants in Paris in 2017
Alexander Lobrano 

 

Three in a row

Discarded shop mannequins on a sidewalk in the rain.

 

Street of color

A pedestrian only street of candy-colored private houses in the heart of Paris.

Top and bottom photos: trompe-l'oeil

Shopping is always a good idea

Searching an escape from the drizzle? In Paris, rain + winter sales =... shopping.

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Nouveautés

King of cakes

Mad rush for the last galettes des rois on last day of January.