Focus On Paris

2 December 2015

Montmartre can astonish with quiet passageways, artists' studios and single family houses.

Fall foliage illuminates this street even on an overcast day.

This stairway leads to the street where Vincent Van Gogh lived with his brother Theo.

Walkway to a hidden hotel, once a private home.

Scattered leaves and a parked bicycle.

Above: it's early and below, in the distance, a boulangerie and a café open for business

Suddenly leaf-covered sidewalks and squares seem to be everywhere.

Above: walking their dogs where just a week before there were tables and chairs

Fall colors seem to be more intense in Montmartre, the hilltop village of tree-lined streets that abruptly rises out of the city.