Tag: Holidays and Celebrations
The Green Traveler: Arbor Day
Celebrating Arbor Day in New Jersey. When I get back to Paris next week I’m sure to find my plants looking dry and forlorn but alive and willing to be nursed back to health through the spring. The secret to raising plants, I’ve found, is to not get too attached to them.
Christmas in Paris is but a memory
It's the rare Paris winter in recent years when Canal Saint Martin freezes over. But abandoning Christmas trees on the street (or in this case the canal) is a post-holiday tradition in Paris.
Armistice Day, November 11
The French aren't big flag wavers, but the blue white and red comes out proudly on Armistice Day (November 11), V-E Day (May 8)...