Winter Benches, Paris
There’s a special atmosphere to the gardens and parks of Paris in winter, before the leaves appear on the trees and block the view.
Brandon...
Eisenhower, de Gaulle and the Wild Rabbits at the Invalides
Late on a drizzly afternoon, having learned nothing and felt little from reading about and watching videos of the 75th anniversary of D-Day commemorations in Normandy, I went to visit the wild rabbits that inhabit the lawn of the Invalides.
You know you live in Paris when … Gazelle Horns
He arrives bearing gifts. There’s a box of camembert since he knows that you like cheese. He’s also brought a plastic container of eight cornes de gazelle (gazelle horns).
A Mother’s Worry (cartoon included)
On Wednesday, January 7, 2015, the day of the terrorist attack against Charlie Hebdo, my mother called to see if I was alright and if I lived anywhere near where the attack had taken place. Two days later, when the kosher grocer Hypercacher was attacked she didn't call.
Alternative viewing: France in HDR photography
Joe Wilkins tries out techniques in HDR photography in Paris, at Chambord and at Vincennes.
Poetry: If I could live here
By H. T. Wald
When will you come
visit me in hills
where Paleolithic hands painted
where Cathars became Perfect
where men still speak of the earth
When’s the best time…
Several times each week someone asks me “When is the best time of year to visit France?”
I usually answer "Whenever you can make it."...
No one has friends at times like this
I helped an acquaintance move the other day. Not sure that I'd call him a friend, but he's someone from the neighborhood whom I know well enough that I responded "Sure" to his call for help him move some boxes and furniture.
Nazi Talk Provides Moral Clarity on Veterans Day—Not
France's national train company SNCF acknowledges with "profound pain" in Florida its wartime role in the deportation of Jews from 1942 to 1944.