Velo !
Monday, August 11, 2008 Posted by Eric
I waited some time to take this one! The red sign says "Vélo", which is short for Vélocipède, the first name given to bicycles in French. Of course, when I saw this sign, I immediately thought to myself "It would be cool if a bike would go by when I take the photo..." So I waited! And here you go!
August 11, 2008 12:13:00 AM GMT+02:00
hehehe
Your patience was rewarded!
August 11, 2008 12:15:00 AM GMT+02:00
Of course a bike would go by on cue Eric!!! You have the power!!
August 11, 2008 12:27:00 AM GMT+02:00
Eric, your patience paid off. Bravo! If you look carefully, you can even see two kids walking on the other side of the cyclist.
VE LOve it! :-)
August 11, 2008 12:33:00 AM GMT+02:00
Coltrane, I see you and Michael vying for the punniest guy award!
The man riding the bike is on one of those you can rent from the city( one way you can tell is from the handlebar area for those who haven't seen one).
August 11, 2008 12:38:00 AM GMT+02:00
PHX - If you're correct, and the city rents out nice looking young men, I'm going to have to accelerate my savings plan for my first trip over. Do many of them speak English?
August 11, 2008 12:41:00 AM GMT+02:00
Just great!! :))
August 11, 2008 12:43:00 AM GMT+02:00
Your patience paid off, Eric, but mine did not. . .I refreshed and refreshed waiting for your post, went and grabbed a cup of coffee and came back to find today's GF honors go to Louis LV. Congrats Louis!
I ditto Coltrane's comment and love the shot! I hope to make good use of those public bikes the next time I get to visit. Hope you enjoy a good beginning to the week!
-Kim
Seattle Daily Photo
August 11, 2008 12:45:00 AM GMT+02:00
Ah! I get it now. Missed the word "on". But I'll still work on my savings plan.
August 11, 2008 12:46:00 AM GMT+02:00
Good grief, 3 people posted in the time it took me to write my comments!
LOL!!!! US Elaine, I hope you and I can travel there together sometime. Even if he doesn't speak English, I'm sure it would be fun! ;^)
-Kim
Seattle Daily Photo
August 11, 2008 12:50:00 AM GMT+02:00
He looks so casual riding his bike, minding his own business, not realizing he is about to become the subject of much discussion. Fun!!!
August 11, 2008 12:52:00 AM GMT+02:00
Kim is right Uselaine, language won't be a barrier. So I've heard. ;-)
August 11, 2008 1:28:00 AM GMT+02:00
uselaine considers her assets and liabilities more carefully... decides a diet and exercise plan is in order as well...
August 11, 2008 2:05:00 AM GMT+02:00
Kim, Although Louis LV is first, he is required to write at least "two sentences about the photo" in order to have the honors of wearing the GF Crown.
August 11, 2008 2:19:00 AM GMT+02:00
Yes, but Lois, consider how difficult it must be for Louis to tap out a comment. We should at least have a GH (golden hoof/hooves?)award. What say you, Madame Phx?
Congrats to GF Coltrane. Will you add drumsticks to the crown?
Uselaine: LOL. It's been quite some time since my assets and liabilities have been considered . . . by anyone!
August 11, 2008 2:21:00 AM GMT+02:00
I wish I knew who said, "All good things come to those who wait."
very nice work Eric!
August 11, 2008 2:38:00 AM GMT+02:00
How can I take the GF crown away from that cute face? That snoot gets me everytime. Louis la Vache, "your patience was rewarded" too. I bow to the GF cow! [...and just for the record, I don't play on calfskin drumheads, either];-)
August 11, 2008 2:40:00 AM GMT+02:00
Cali...a GH award works too! LOL
August 11, 2008 2:45:00 AM GMT+02:00
Cali, "golden hoof/hooves" That's beautiful. I'd like to see that.
Coltrane, You the man! I realize many feminine touches have been added to the Crown. I don't think you will have a problem adjusting to that. Since you live in a house full of girls.
So I guess the word "bicyclette" came after "Velo". I have a friend in Paris and when I say "bicyclette"; he says, "bike" is fine. He has never been to the US; he just likes the word "bike" better.
Eric, Catching the children in the background is a nice touch. Children are all over Paris. That is one of the things that makes Paris so special to me.
August 11, 2008 2:51:00 AM GMT+02:00
A true photographer, Eric. Some pro shooters will wait hours for a shot; for the light to be right, for a person to move just the right way, for animal behavior, you name it. I love (anagram of velo) that you planned this one and waited for it.
August 11, 2008 2:55:00 AM GMT+02:00
Lois...I do look forward to the day when I can take my two little girls to France. Though they will certainly love Paris, I'm thinking a Normandy beach would be magical. Children and sailboats in the jardins, eh? That is also magical.
August 11, 2008 3:19:00 AM GMT+02:00
I don't know if I laughed harder at USelaine, misreading my comment and making it better, or Cali's logic in giving a golden hoof(!!!!!!) to my favorite bovine, Louis la vache.
August 11, 2008 4:09:00 AM GMT+02:00
Well done, Eric - I hope you didn't have to wait long for him to ride by!
August 11, 2008 4:24:00 AM GMT+02:00
"Louis" thanks you, Cali! It is a bit difficult hammering out letters and words on the keyboard with hooves and lacking opposable thumbs....
August 11, 2008 4:33:00 AM GMT+02:00
Well done, it definetly adds to the photo!
August 11, 2008 5:21:00 AM GMT+02:00
How clever! You always take such care with your photos :)
August 11, 2008 5:37:00 AM GMT+02:00
Hi there!
I am here to introduce myself. I am new to the Blog community and would like to meet new people. Your blog attracts me, so I posted a link on my site. Stop by and say hi sometime~
August 11, 2008 6:22:00 AM GMT+02:00
Eric -- your timing is impeccable, comme toujours! It looks like you're out in the country, though, not in Paris proper.
Louis -- pretty good w/o fingers. GH it is! Guess your crown should be the requisite daisy chain.
August 11, 2008 6:28:00 AM GMT+02:00
Great shot!
August 11, 2008 7:09:00 AM GMT+02:00
What a great idea for a photo Eric and such a good way to get exercise Uselaine if you want to. I think that Coltraine would prefer this method as opposed to the one that soul singer Isaac Hayes chose. He was found dead next to his treadmill yesterday, at 65.
August 11, 2008 7:19:00 AM GMT+02:00
Wow, it's tough when you're upstaged by a...a cow. Now I know why actors really don't like working with animals. "La Vache, I've got a cowbell that would look good on you! Hey,what's that over there, Louis? I think I see an alfalfa field in Stromsjo's Swedish blog! Mooove over you rover." ;-)
August 11, 2008 7:22:00 AM GMT+02:00
Kim - I wonder if you interpreted the visual the same way I did at first, being a Pacific coast type. I thought that white background was a foggy field with some sort of wire framework in the near ground. But Paris isn't next to the ocean, so wouldn't get that summertime marine layer moving in like a cool blanket. So I enlarged it, and realized it's a big white building!
I need to get more blood pumping to my brain. Where's my treadmill...
August 11, 2008 7:23:00 AM GMT+02:00
Michael...the "Soul Man" indeed was found dead as you put it by his treadmill. It is a "life check" to read of his passing. Perhaps Lois or Alexa knew him. I can hear the music to "Shaft" entering the scene.
August 11, 2008 7:25:00 AM GMT+02:00
Oh, geez! I meant Alexa, and she's an Atlantic coast girl! I need yesterday's rounds of drinks again...
August 11, 2008 7:28:00 AM GMT+02:00
Alexa - Just so you know how very screwed up my head is, for the longest time I thought your picture showed you sitting on the ground, legs straight out to the right, arms propping you up in back on the left. Sort of like one of those mudflap girls, without the knees up. Everything else the same.
August 11, 2008 8:10:00 AM GMT+02:00
Funny photo, and you planned it this time, Eric.
Why does it say VELO on the fence ? Is it a bike rental place or a shop ?
Welcome Ana Carini :) I will look over at your site. See You !
August 11, 2008 8:20:00 AM GMT+02:00
Great catch!
If the price of gas keeps creeping up, we'll all be riding our bikes.
August 11, 2008 9:18:00 AM GMT+02:00
Coltrane, Coltrane,
Give us your answer do!
You're half crazy,
Upstaged by a cow are you!
No one can replace your humour,
'cept la Vache with a chic new groomer
But you've pizazz with all that jazz
And Louis can only moo!
August 11, 2008 9:18:00 AM GMT+02:00
(I crack me up!)
August 11, 2008 12:01:00 PM GMT+02:00
exellent done .. right moment as when you.. go
August 11, 2008 1:25:00 PM GMT+02:00
An English phrase: All comes to he who waits...!
Glad it paid off, Eric. Why is the sign there anyway? Is it where bikes are parked? In which case, why not plural. Sorry...being pedantic today...!?
August 11, 2008 1:27:00 PM GMT+02:00
Oh Michael how great
That Eric would wait
To capture for us a great view
The velo came by
In the blink of an eye
Even making Louis make a 'moo'.
August 11, 2008 3:30:00 PM GMT+02:00
Lynn and Michael...you both are full of all that jazz today! Bravo!
August 11, 2008 4:33:00 PM GMT+02:00
[...dedicated to La Vache]
Isn't it rich?
Aren't we a pair?
You here at last got the crown
Put me in my chair
Don't send in the cows
Isn't it bliss?
Though I don't really approve
Your constant roving around
You're the one who can moo
Where are the cows?
No, don't send in the cows
Just when I stopped, I stopped trying for GF
Finally knowin' the one that I had in my grasp was yours
Making my entrance again and again with my usual flair
Though not sure of my lines, no one is there [except you]
Don't you love the PDP crown? Eric's fault I fear
I thought that you'd want what I want
Sorry my dear
But where are the cows?
No, don't send in more cows?
Don't bother they're here
Isn't it rich, is it a steer?
Losing my timing this late in my PDP career
And where are the cows?
They are all to be cows?
Well may be next year, isn't it rich?
Please I say, "no more cows!"
I've had enough of the cows!
August 11, 2008 4:54:00 PM GMT+02:00
You are KILLING me with cleverness and laughter...Michael, Coltrane and Lynn(and as always, Louis, but you knew that).
Now, if I ever meet Sondheim or Glynis Johns in my travels, Coltrain,.........boy, have I got a song for them!
August 11, 2008 5:15:00 PM GMT+02:00
P.S, Coltrane, Your song is on par with Michael's reworking of "A Night before Christmas".
Hmmm, since I am in the award business on PDP, I now have to think of the name of the award to give to both of you for these academy award winning moments.
Don't forget, Michael's was captured not only on the blog but on tape(because I FORCED him to read it at the picnic!).
Any help for me out there , guys? How about the Pure Darn Pleasure award? Am open to other suggestions.
August 11, 2008 5:52:00 PM GMT+02:00
Michael, Coltrane: brilliant.
PHX: how about the Louis? Or the Golden Hoof? In tribute to the tributes to Louis, of course.
August 11, 2008 5:57:00 PM GMT+02:00
Like usual, you make a big effort to please us... and you always succeed!!!
Great shot! Thanks Eric!!
August 11, 2008 5:57:00 PM GMT+02:00
I think that everybody here is CRAZY. That's why I love this blog and all the PDPers...
I want to meet you again. An other picnic,? Eric, do you think that you can do it for me? ;)
' tout vient à point à qui sait attendre', that the French sentence for this picture (note it down Alexa!). Well done Eric...
US elaine, LOOOL your idea to rent a guy (cute and English speaker of course) is such a great idea!! We could call this system CELIB' ('single')!
August 11, 2008 5:58:00 PM GMT+02:00
Monica! You here! ;) What about your meeting with Rose?
August 11, 2008 6:07:00 PM GMT+02:00
Celib! Guille, you're brilliant and funny. I love it.
Yes Monica, Rose, has it happened?
Lynn, it's good to see you.
August 11, 2008 7:44:00 PM GMT+02:00
Coltrane & Lynn, you take whatever award PHX comes up with. Far more clever!
Guille - "Celib" is awesome. Quick! Patent the term before the city of Paris finds out and takes all the credit.
PHX - you are so creative. I still can't wait to take one of your flights. My travels would never be the same.
August 11, 2008 8:02:00 PM GMT+02:00
It's done Michael, if you want to use the word (no, the brand!) Célib'® , you have to inform me of it from now. You got it?
August 11, 2008 8:27:00 PM GMT+02:00
LOL!
I think YOU should have your own brand Guille:
Bratlib®
August 11, 2008 8:35:00 PM GMT+02:00
Célib'®!!! LOL!!!
It's so democratic, if you think about it. In a country that celebrates love, life, liberty, and the inherent human dignity of an attractive companion for any who need one, I see the numbers going way up for tourist dollars in Paris. They have their marketing job cut out for them, however. As most of you know, "celibate" now means something quite different in English. We want to hold on to our illusions, in any case!
August 11, 2008 8:38:00 PM GMT+02:00
Welcome Ana Carini!
Guille -- Celib! Excellent!! Now we do know what they'll come up with next!!! Sign (sigh-n) me right up.
Michael and Coltrane -- I'm doubled up laughing. (But...and I hate saying this after all the hoopla...but, I don't want to see an injustice....so, what about Sue? Is the second sentence a disqualifier?)
No matter who our sovereign is today, the songs are moooo-ti-full! :)))))
August 11, 2008 9:42:00 PM GMT+02:00
You guys are so punny.
Excellent shot, Eric! Your dedication to PDP is always very apparent.
August 11, 2008 9:47:00 PM GMT+02:00
Hi Ana and welcome to the Cadlib society. I see by your blog that you and Petrea are in the same hood. Look her up. VE LOve her, too! ;-)
August 11, 2008 11:04:00 PM GMT+02:00
Altho the Golden Hoof award mentioned by Cali and Petra makes me laugh, there is something I also like about twisting Guille's French celib(single)into the American celeb(rity), and using both for the special blogger.After all, this is a French blogspot dominated by English speakers.
Unless someone comes up with something else,YOU all DECIDE by the end of tomorrow. My only DEMAND is that Michael has won for the year 2007, and so far this year, Coltrane is up for the gold, followed close behind by Lynn.We shall have a Gold Silver and Bronze winner for the year 2008 because....I said so!LOL. Make sure you remember the blogger who went beyond the the call of cleverness and say something when it happens so we can be aware when it culminates in December 2008. The official ceremony will take place at next yrs. picnic where we will honor the 3 winners. Sa va?
August 12, 2008 12:09:00 AM GMT+02:00
Yikes! You're all funny (punny) and brilliant!
August 12, 2008 12:11:00 AM GMT+02:00
If PHX-CDG says so, then I will listen!
August 12, 2008 12:13:00 AM GMT+02:00
Quick answer to one of your questions - Well sort of, because I don't really have the answer!
Why was there a sign Vélo there? I have no idea, I suppose it's because they rent bicycles ;).
August 12, 2008 2:38:00 AM GMT+02:00
Wonderful!! What a great reward for your patience. What a great shot!!
August 12, 2008 3:19:00 AM GMT+02:00
PHX, you're brilliant. I bow to you.
August 12, 2008 1:36:00 PM GMT+02:00
That is an amazing photo. I am sure it took much patience. You should post some of your pictures to baraaza.com it is a travel site where people can review destiantions, upload pictures and other cool stuff. It is still in private beta but anyone can join. It would be cool to showcase all your amazing photos. By the way I'm going to Paris in a few days hopefully I can get some cool pictures too.
Melissa
August 12, 2008 2:00:00 PM GMT+02:00
à Coltrane - "Louis" is touched by your having dedicated a song to him!
(Editor to "Louis:" You're 'touched,' allright!
"Louis" to Editor: Why do you think that disease is called Vache folle? )
August 12, 2008 5:46:00 PM GMT+02:00
LLV...We really do love cows! Glad you enjoyed it!
August 12, 2008 5:55:00 PM GMT+02:00
Love it!
August 13, 2008 5:47:00 AM GMT+02:00
That was good idea to wait because the photo came out great. Hey, that rhymes!
August 16, 2008 1:17:00 AM GMT+02:00
Perfect timing! I love it.
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