Saturday, April 12, 2025

QUACK-QUACK, COIN-COIN

Speaking of ducks. . .

 A nasal coin-coin is the French onomatopoeic sound for the anglophone quack-quack.
Bucolique window dressing in this Versailles boulangerie-pâtisserie sets the 
tone for April weather.

Aux Pains de la Ferme, 9 rue Royale, Versailles

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Tuesday, April 8, 2025

HEAVEN SCENT


 Très parfumé...
Heaven Scent is the name of this pink magnolia blooming today in a local park.
How would its name translate to French? Senteur de paradis,  senteur du ciel
or even parfum du ciel?

Vocabulary
le paradis:  heaven
le ciel:  sky, also heaven


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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

LIKE A FLEETING THOUGHT


Comme une pensée fugace . . .
Photo taken at the Parc Bagatelle in the Bois de Bologne, Paris

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