Friday, December 23, 2011

One horse town (hall)!


I'm so behind on my work right now, that I really did not have any minute to horse around today ;-) Except for a short visit to the gym at dawn this morning (yes, people!), I did not go out at all... Therefore I did not have the chance to take my photo du jour. So let me use this one, that I took about a month ago at the Paris Town hall and that I really like. I never posted it because I have no information what's so ever about this stunning sculpture.

13 comments:

  1. I beg your forgiveness for my cutting and pasting my comment, but there was no way on Earth I would be able to make it around the whole globe to wish everybody a Merry Christmas otherwise.

    The magical elves that constitute my staff have demonstrated their lack of respect in either not showing up for work at all, or those that have all seem a little worse for wear (if you catch my drift). All they seem to do is sit around smoking cigarettes that, frankly, smell funny. In addition, they play cards and tell dirty jokes rather than do their jobs! Consequently, the reindeer are all filthy and out of shape.

    Despite my best efforts, the couple of chooks, arthritic wallaby and three peculiar wombats that I’ve drafted in just don’t cut it as replacements.

    Anyway, all the way down here at the bottom of the world (A.K.A. Tasmania), and from myself, Jen, Henry and Ezra, please have a Merry Christmas/ Winter Solstice/ Summer Solstice/ Hanukkah/ Festivus/ Ashura and a happy New Year!

    I hope that all of your holiday photos turn out to be triumphs, your stocking is stuffed full of lots of tasty treats and not coal and that all your pumpkin pies/ prawn cocktails/ currywurst are all as tasty as can be!

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  2. Allow me to be the first to suggest that you should feel free to post any old, archived photos like this whenever you choose. WOW!

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  3. Such a handsome horse in such a beautiful interior. Good on you for going to the gym this morning, Eric - no holiday pounds for you!

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  4. This looks like an Ingres or David painting. Just waiting for Napoleon to descend the stairs.

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  5. You go to the gym at dawn - respect !

    What a grand place you have chosen to show us today. It's really beautiful.
    I have never been inside the Townhall, only passed by it. But it sure looks like it's worth a visit.

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  6. Awesome! It does look as if the horse is waiting for someone to come down the stairs.

    (LOL and Eric, if this is your "I'm too busy to take an amazing photo for you today, so I'll post something old thing I have lying around" picture, you are incredible, because this is beautiful and fun at the same time! Bravo!)

    Merry Christmas to you all from a cold and tiny bit snowy Michigan!

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  7. Superb photo, Eric! No apologies needed. I love the contrast of the horse's curved neck with all the lines of the stairway and columns. Just superb!!

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  8. beautiful colors in this picture.

    Eric, your PDP is a gift every day of the year for those who cannot be there in person. My son moved to Paris for work a few years ago and I so enjoy seeing all the pictures/stories in that fabulous City of Light. This past August we were blessed with a beautiful grandson. My visit to meet him in September was very special and they flew home for the holidays yesterday. Merry Christmas everyone, may the holidays be exactly the way you want them to be!

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  9. @ Eric Tenin, "I'm so behind on my work right now, that I really did not have any minute to horse around today...." That line could work in a "Scrooge" or "Christmas Carol" comedy.

    @ Petrea Burchard, "...you should feel free to post any old, archived photos like this whenever you choose." I so agree with that way of thinking.

    @ monnica, "...you for going to the gym this morning, Eric - no holiday pounds for you!" Eric is definitely into the program.

    @ jeff, There is a beautiful French revolution genre painting, "Attaque de l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris" by Joseph Beaume (1796–1885). Do you know it?

    "Just waiting for Napoleon to descend the stairs." Or, Charles de Gaulle or, Jacques Chirac.

    @ Bettina "You go to the gym at dawn - respect!" I know, doesn't he have tremendous self-control.

    @ Christie, "Merry Christmas to you all from a cold and tiny bit snowy Michigan!" Merci for the snow! We are having a mild Christmas in San Francisco -- 62 degrees and sunny.

    @ Anne, "beautiful colors in this picture." Yeah, where is that purple light coming from? It's beautiful.

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  10. @Kris. Well merci, I never had a merry Chritmas wish from Tasmania! I lov ethe idea. Let us wish you a happy new year - and more luck with your staff, I understand!

    @Petrea. "Allow me to be the first to suggest that you should feel free to post any old" ;-) Yeah, but I don't like to cheat!

    @Monnica "Eric - no holiday pounds for you!" Alas, providing the amount of food I'm going in ingest, I will take these pounds, believe me!

    @Jeff "Just waiting for Napoleon to descend the stairs." I know, too bad, I missed him by 5 minutes they told me...

    @Bettina "t. But it sure looks like it's worth a visit." It does, but they don't open it that often.

    @Trishia "Just superb!!" Merci !

    @PerthDailyPhoto (PDP!) "This whole post made me happy!!" Really?! Why?

    @Anne. "This past August we were blessed with a beautiful grandson" Excellent! Is that a Franco-American one?

    @Lois. LOOOOOOOOOL. Did not you steal my lines! Merry Christmas to you dear Lois.

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  11. @Anne. "This past August we were blessed with a beautiful grandson" Excellent! Is that a Franco-American one?


    mom and dad are both Americans.

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