Tis the season

Mushroom season that is, still in full force at Paris markets...with as many ways to prepare them as there are varieties.

Turn a corner

The Eiffel Tower towers in full view near Pont de l'Alma.

Night portrait

High above the city a portrait artist on Place du Tertre works into the night.

French onion soup

A simple workers' after-market soup that utilizes throwaways (stale bread, cheese, onions) and meat stock, soupe à l'oignon traveled outside the French border to become a gourmet sensation.

Bar of sighs

It was from this terrace crooner Jacques Brel would sit every day looking with longing at a certain window across the street.

Au Rêve

89 rue Caulaincourt 75018

Klimt cups

Gold-lined demi-tasse cups of artworks by Gustav Klimt in a Montmartre shop window.

Cemetery path

Soon this small cemetery will be filled with relatives of the deceased bearing flowers in observance of All Souls Day.