April in Paris...

I'm not a big fan of flower photos, but when I saw these ones in the Luxembourg gardens this evening, I could not help but taking a photo. I also thought of the unforgettable song April in Paris (click here to listen to the Ella Fitzgerald version). As a matter of fact April in Paris can be pretty cold (10° C or 50° F on average) and rainy (14 days of rain on average!). So I don't know really why Paris is supposed to be so wonderful in April! More about Paris Climate on Wikipedia.

Close encounter of a weird type!

Did I happen to witness an astronauts convention by coincidence? Did France suffer a Nuclear accident that only I was aware of?! All wrong, these weird little white men are simply harvesting honey from the Luxembourg gardens beehives... For yes, as some of you already know, we still have beehives in the middle of Paris (there and in the Georges Brassens park) that are used by the members of a society that was founded in 1856. By the way, if you're around the area on September 20 and 21, you'll have the opportunity of buying this honey ;)

Sun bathing

If you come to Paris and are looking for a nice - and quite original - walk, I suggest you go up the "Coulée verte" along the Avenue Daumesnil (12th arrondissement), a former train track that they turned into a green lane. Very clever. At the end of this walk today, I found gardens in which a lot of people were laying in the sun. I took this photo from a suspension bridge that goes over these gardens. Really cool place.