Les Photographs

Of course I took loads of pictures during those three weekend adventures, but I did not have the energy to add them to last night's post. Here they are:

Nuit Blanche Weekend:

Parc Monceau, where I spent a gray afternoon and got to see an absolute army of French schoolchildren at recess:

A visit to the Montmartre Cemetery:

A cemetery cat:

Musee d'Art Moderne:

This composition is made of millions of overlapping passages from religious and philosophical texts. It took years.

I thought this looked like a three-dimensional Miro painting:

Matisse, of course:

I went back to the David Lynch window displays on Saturday night (they looked much better in the dark):

Amsterdam:

The most futuristic bathroom I have ever seen:

Belgian waffles! (and kaffie)

Welcome to Amsterdam!

Seriously, Dutch is not a real language.

Sunrise over Oosterdok:

We found the Avanti!

The lovely cafe where we had breakfast:

Inside of Cafe de Kloonprins:

A map elephant!

An antique-shop cat:

A lovely old house:

The canals were just too picturesque:

A very artistic elephant:

So, I guess they sell crack in Amsterdam. And I guess hedgehogs like it.

Canal tour:

"Crazy Jack" clock tower:

Our wee little cabin on the Avanti:

An exotic (and actually quite delicious) little drink:

The obligatory highway-sign photo:

Saturday morning in Amsterdam:

Swans actually do this in real life!

Old volkswagen!

Yes, Amsterdam is a Utopia:

Prins Hendrik:

Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder:

A box-bed in the "Our Lord in the Attic" museum:

The view from the "kerk" in the attic:

The pleasure bus:

They put mayonnaise on their fries in Holland. WEIRD.

The rare parrot elephant:

"The Birds of the City" elephant:

A giraphant:
A park sign that I found amusing:

An adorable old-fashioned swing-set:

A friendly little Buddha hiding in a flowerpot:

A bridge leading to the Botanical Garden:

Lovely narrow houses along the canals:

A flowering building!

The Botanic Garden in Amsterdam:

A primordial pool, complete with trilobites:

A primordial flower?

A primordial tree?

I thought these looked just like the tree stars from "The Land Before Time:

A path through the rainforest:

Some marvelous pink flowers in the rainforest:

Agave!

A shop called "Conscious Dreams"

Normandie:
The Jardin des Simples, where the monks grew healing plants:

Just thought this would make a cool picture:

Just a nice autumn view of Caen:

A former Medieval dungeon at Caen:

Omaha Beach:

Stars of David alongside crosses in the American Cemetery:

The thousands of crosses that represent only a fraction of the soldiers who actually died in the Normandy battles:

The monument to the missing soldiers:
The statue at the monument to the missing soldiers:

Mea and I by the ocean:

The battlefield as it looks today:

I just thought this was an interesting tree:

View of Mont St. Michel from a distance:

View from the bus window:

Looking up the mountain:

The door of a house owned by a ninety-something woman, one of the five families who completely own Mont St. Michel:

Looking up at the church:

The walls of the Mont St. Michel fortress:

The island between Brittany and Mont St. Michel, which is surrounded by quicksand:

A lovely silhouette of St. Michel:

The room where the monks used to eat (in complete silence, no less):

Mea and I out the window of the abbey:

Saint Michael:

C'est tout pour maintenant!