A corner terrace

A tranquil corner café with a terrace in the sun.

La Source

49 Boulevard de la Tour Maubourg 75006

Shakespirit

Shakespeare and Company. bookstore and café, has re-opened.

Be sure and check out Aussie Oliver Gee's book, "Paris On Air," as breezy as biking through Paris on a crisp June morning.

Amélie

In a now classic French film (2001) a young woman decides to discreetly help the unhappy, the infirm, the elderly living alone in Montmartre, and change their lives for the better.

 From Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

 Above: Amélie's métro station

Fêting les mères

Above: the most beautiful bouquet; a light apéro before a more filling main course, below, that was dubbed, "confit-ment de canard" (aux olives) accompanied by frites cooked in (what else) duck fat

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Yesterday, just before lunchtime, it seemed that almost everyone was wielding a bouquet. Stopping for an after-market coffee at our usual spot before heading home we must have counted at least a dozen from our terrace table and couldn't help but notice that roses, reserved mostly for Valentine's Day, were few and far between. However blooms of almost every sort imaginable were everywhere, imparting a sense of hope and renewal, as Paris gets back to its old self. - BPJ

La fleur du bonheur

...c'est la beauté. Anonyme
- The flower of happiness ...is beauty -

Tomorrow is La fête des mères, Mothers Day, in France, celebrated the last Sunday in May.

Above: florist at a covered market on the Left Bank

Cobbled steps

An enchanting stairway off rue des Abbesses.

A sunny terrace

 

A relaxing afternoon in the Marais district.