THIS BEAR WAS MADE FOR WALKING

Il reste toujours toujours quelque chose de l'enfance, toujours...

Something always remains from childhood, always....

A universal sentiment and extract from Marguerite Duras' novel, Des Journées Entières dans les Arbres.  Above, a pedestrian traffic light "revisited" at la Place Colette, Paris.

Vocabulary
revisiter:  to visit again; to reconsider, to rethink; in the figurative sense revisiter means to give a new interpretation to a text, a work of art, etc. Of late it has been frequently used to describe new twists given to classic recipes; e.g. un Paris-Brest revisité


©2012 P.B. Lecron

A PATCH OF BLUE

It's so good to see some blue sky after three months of gray, rainy weather. Looking up here, giant murano glass beads on aluminum strands form two bird-cage like cupolas over the much photographed Parisian metro entrance at the Palais Royal station. Designed by Jean-Michel Othoniel and installed in 2000, le Kiosque des Noctambules, gives a baroque feel to the Place Colette. 

Vocabulary
une bouche de métro:  a metro (subway) entrance
un(e) noctambule:  a nightbird

©2012 P.B. Lecron