PARIS: Yesterday in Paris and the day before

We were without internet service for the last 48 hours so I am just catching up on my blog. My German friend Chris left yesterday afternoon. We miss her. She was such a fun sport with the kids, bringing a cool soccer ball and playing with Guthrie and chasing them through the streets....Here is Guthrie between galleries, copying the graffiti:

Four swaying trees on Ile St. Louis - saw them before with Tama too:

Three kid boxers striking a pose:

Toy gun from a crazy toy shop:

In the Camper shoe store:

Window display in le Marais:

Chris and David pretending to be intellectuals at a very delicious French-Japanese neighborhood restarurant, Nanashi, where the food you eatmakes you feel healthy and clean and full: edamame, soft spring rolls, salmon sashima on top of perfect rice and greens, duck soba, tofu soba, sake......

The duck soba with leeks that everybody loved:

Bike lane:

Musee D'Orsay - really have never liked Degas and I like him even less after the mediocre and crowded show of his nudes - academic, dry and bad. But seeing Courbet's Origin of the World and the small collection of historical photographs made the Musee D'Orsay worth it. I must admit that knowing that Susan Sontag did not like the museum via Alice Kaplan's amazing book, Dreaming in French, tainted my vision:

The Atget show will probably be one of the best shows I have ever seen in my lifetime. Saw it with Madeleine at the Musee Carnivalet, metro posters for it:

Family portrait by Chris, reminds me of Richter:

Chris delicious focaccia with goat cheese, feta, mozzerrella, basil, olives, sun dried tomatoes, pesto, hot peppers, parmesan, artichoke hearts.....

Tuileries:

Bang bang!

Harper, after Harry Callahan

Harper happy in the rain....

My little Harpie Starlet

Felt window display:

Detail from the famous "lock bridge", behind Notre Dame, where supposedly someone left a padlock in the 1970s for their true love and now everyone leaves one......