Floral Friday

Potatoes and flowers share an outdoor market stall.

 

Market Monday

 

Seasonal fruit and tomatoes star at busy Marché d'Aligre.

 

Market Monday

 

From organic wines, honey, salts and foie gras tastings to crêpe stands, flower stalls and ready-made traiteur dishes (above), the sprawling Bastille market caters to every taste.

 

Flee market Friday

A whimsical sculpture inside the magnificent L'Église Saint-Eustache commemorates the departure of the legendary "Belly of Paris" market in old Les Halles.

 

Floral Friday

 

A flower stall near Notre Dame Cathedral.

 

Wine Wednesday

 

A market stall stocked with Medovina, a sweet mead, Czech in origin, made from honey and apple cider.

 

Fête des Mères

 A VERY JOYOUS FÊTE DES MÈRES

 Mother's Day France 2024

🌹

 

Market Monday

 

 

Carrot corner at the Bastille market on rue Richard-Lenoir.

 

Table Tuesday

 A table set for wine, oyster, and seafood sharing in the middle of a market in the 18th arrondissement.

 

Floral Friday

A flower stall at the marché Oberkampf.

Easter eggs

 

Fresh eggs are displayed in nests made of straw at the Bastille market.

 

***

 

 Joyeuses Pâques / Happy Easter 2021

 

💐

 

A pineapple in winter

Market stall brims with pineapples from Costa Rica.

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If you bought me diamonds
If you bought me pearls
If you bought me roses
Like some other gents
Might bring to other girls
It couldn't please me more
Than the gift I see -
A pineapple for me.

From It Couldn't Please Me More (The Pineapple song)

Musical, "Cabaret"

 

 

Chestnut season

'Tis the season... of roasted chestnuts.

Above: hand-warming marrons a.k.a. châtaignes at an outdoor market on the Left Bank

Monday: more marrons

Festive feasting

 

 

Despite lockdowns and curfews right now Paris' street markets are overflowing with head-spinning choices for a holiday spread.

Mushroom season

Exotic edible mushrooms at a Paris market.

 

 

Loaves...

Thick-crusted large loaves in a boulangerie window.

 

(and tomorrow, Fishes)

...And fishes

Fresh fish supplies at an outdoor market will be depleted by mid-morning.

Lobster eve

With visitors in Paris and much going on I will be returning next week.

As always, here's sending warmest wishes for a Joyeux everything! - BPJ

Bastille column

The "July Column" at Place de la Bastille towers over a crowded outdoor market.