Friday, November 25, 2005
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Remembering the Cafe de Flore
Love your shiny shoe (an elegant signature touch to use often?) in the MESSIEURS, where we go to grab ze lemon (referring to the soap at the sink.) And the green table with the orange awning of Lipp's beyond the beautiful woman on a scooter in that autumn light...fantastic! It used to be easier and safer jaywalking the boule when it had painted lanes and you made your way from line to line; without them now it's like bullfighting in a stampede. When the Flore is not busy you can hear the rain on the glass roof; one February night I watched snow fall on it. And do you remember that great summer night we so rowdily watched the girl in a short skirt mount a moto, avid for a glimpse of her knickers, and a girl behind us asked, "Did you see them?" (And am I making it up that we said, "No. What color are yours?" And she answered,'" Pink."...?) The Solferino is a cool new bridge; I crossed it before it was finished, which is hard to say about most things in our old love Paris. -- Michael A.
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Technical Note
Unless otherwise specified, all pictures on this blog were taken with a Philips Key019, a USB key/ still camera / video camera / MP3 player that retails for about $100 if you can find it. Some of the pictures are digitally enhanced using Google's Picasa2 program. 
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