Guarding le shop

 

It used to be almost impossible to enter a Paris tabac or café without having to sidestep a large German Shepherd blocking the entrance. Now, small dogs like this one, peer from many a shop doorway.

Bike tied to tree

 Bicycles are one of my favorite subjects.

Get your goat

French cheeses have their own season, and now is the time to look for raw milk farm fromages de chèvre (goat's milk cheeses) in cheese shops and markets.

Ze cocktail hour

In Paris, dressing up never went out of style.

Dress-ing up: July sales

Summer soirées are here and so are the July soldes, with bargains to be found until August 4.
 

Above: a small dress shop in the Haut Marais

What heat?

As Paris temperatures soar icy cocktails are de rigueur come evening.

Medici Fountain #2: Green-eyed monster

 

The one-eyed hulk Polyphemus, who's been stalking the nymph Galatea, sneaks up to find her in the arms of Acis, her lover, and flies into a rage.