Wintry Wednesday

 

 

Place Dauphine in rare winter white in early January.  

 

Snowful Saturday

 

 

Snow in Paris is a rare and fleeting treat. As soon as we heard more was due Wednesday morning (it had snowed the night before), we were up and out early. 

 

Photos: along the quais of the Seine

 

 

 

White Wednesday

 

Paris wakes up to an Impressionist dreamscape.

Treeful Tuesday

 

 

Treefuls of fresh snow and a café's warm glow make a perfect winter postcard.

Snowfall Sunday

 

Light snowfall with more to come forecast.

 

Snow

 

 

A light snowfall.

 

Window Wednesday

 

POV fresh snow from the Café Renoir.

 

Musée de Montmartre

Renoir Gardens

 

Flashback Friday

 

Early yesterday Montmartre awoke to a blanket of fresh snow.

 

Light snow #2

 

 

The Basilica of Sacré Coeur shimmers after Wednesday's light snowfall.

Light snow

 Yesterday Paris awoke under a light blanket of snow. 

Snowed in

Beautiful Place Dauphine, practically deserted.

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Above all, my dear child, do not come to Paris!

No one leaves for fear of seeing this plague fall on us, it spreads like a dry wood fire. The king and Mazarin confine us all to our apartments. - Attributed to a letter from Mme de Sévigné to her daughter, Thursday April 30, 1687

 

Snow bird

A seagull stands perfectly still on just fallen snow.

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"Snowbirds" migrate from cold climates to warmer and in Arizona, their caravans fill national park campgrounds. Usually retired couples, they make new friends as they go, comfortably installed for the winter months on folding chairs and around campfires - knitting, cooking, making coffee, chatting, exchanging stories and travel advice. - BPJ

First snow

Snowflakes fell in Montmartre on Saturday as another curfew began at 6 p.m.

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 Stay warm

❤️

 

Morning snowfall #3

Another photo of this week's ephemeral blanket of snow.

Morning snowfall #2

By afternoon all traces of snow had disappeared.

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

Slush fun

 

 

Snow on the butte Montmartre takes longer to melt than in the rest of the city.