Vendôme en fête

Place Vendôme from rue de Castiglione decked out for les fêtes.

Still life with apples

Apples and crushed hazelnuts will make a delicious tarte aux pommes on a rainy afternoon.

Street lights

Christmas lights on streets off Place du Tertre in the morning's wee hours.

Private pleasure

 

A generous Saint Honoré at La Grande Épicerie Bon Marché Rive Gauche

Tower in winter

Everyone and everything en silhouette, Place du Trocadéro.

First coffee

Cafés serrés and an escargot crème de marrons on the way to morning market.

Advent

Over a hundred people packed into the tiny 12th century church atop Montmartre for Mass at dawn.

Above: 300 candles lit the way