Paris in January

"aubergine" 

(from our hotel room window, the corner restaurant where we dined, aubergine)

"red"

(Moulin Rouge) 

"piece of heaven"

(Sacre Coeur, Paris)

"one moment in time"

(view looking down from Sacre Coeur) 

"sacred friendship"

(Sacre Coeur center doorway)  

"our secret ceiling"

(dome inside Sacre Coeur, no pictures allowed--oops)  

"sunny hill"

(looking out from the church, which sits atop a large hill) 

"church art"

(Sacre Coeur railing)

"tourist trap"

(people watching and beer drinking) 

"deal"

 (we talked him down to 20 euro for two portraits in one drawing)

"look up" 

(the city's fine art, he's fake- no worries)

 "streets of Paris"

 "Romantique garden" 

(at Musee de la Vie Romantique, Paris)

"Opera" 

(Opera national de Paris)

 "down to the Metro"

 (in Paris) 

 "small world"

(met Wilmington, Delaware folks at Le Monteverdi Restaurant, Latin Quarter, Paris)

"chills"

(Le Tour Eiffel, Paris - a very cold day, yes, but this picture gives me chills)

"telescope tales"

(atop Le Tour Eiffel, my favorite picture I took in Paris)

 "going up"

(looking out the glass elevator)

 "sunset over the seine"

 (Le Tour Eiffel summit)

"golden city"

(level 1 of Le Tour Eiffel)

"peaceful Arc"

(Arc de Triomphe, Paris, center of a very congested and chaotic traffic system)

"to the top"

(ascending the stairs of Arc de Triomphe) 

"5 minutes"

 (a glistenin tower, which sparkles the fist 5 minutes of every hour, atop Arc de Triomphe)  

"rubies and diamonds"

 (Champs Elysees, at night also known as the ruby and diamond street, atop the Arc)

 "Parisian diamonds"

(atop the Arc)

"a distant tower"

(atop the Arc)

"majestic" 

(Notre Dame in January)

"Good night, Paris"

(Notre Dame along the Seine River)