Let all who enter

A stone mascaron, a decorative touch that's long disappeared from modern architecture, keeps watch over an open doorway.

To market to market

Sunday morning finds locals heading for bustling street markets like this one, leaving it to the season's offerings to do the meal planning.

Jazz apéro

A Montmartre café readies to serve up cocktails, nibbles, and jazz on the side.

Un coin des arts

A graffiti-covered wall in the heart of a funky Left Bank gallery district.

 

Wine down

Bottles of table wines and champagnes, most from small regional producers, many not exported, displayed on a bed of corks.

Gluten rules

No shortage of gluten in Paris, where there seems to be a boulangerie on almost every block.

Above: freshly baked plump brioches are the day's special offer

Walk, don't fly

A lone pigeon carefully makes its way to the top of this steep staircase, step by step, then flies away.