Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat...


It's only early November, but some stores (department stores mostly for now) have started displaying their Christmas windows. I took this one at Le Printemps where the theme is "Nordic fairytale, a world of ice and magical Christmas lights"! Beautiful I must say, and a big hit with the tourists - and locals! Christmas weather is here too, beleive me. Cold and wet. I hate it!

21 comments:

  1. Love the photo and feeling it gives Eric. Let's hope the striking workers in Paris get a little more holiday spirit going though...

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  2. Er... Something tells me they don't Michael!

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  3. Cold and wet? Oh, that's no good at all!!! Oh, well.

    What, Michael, another strike? Hopefully Air France luggage handlers won't follow this time. Pfffff...

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  4. Wow!! this window looks like a dream, so beautiful! Someday I will spend Xmas or New Year's eve in Paris... despite the cold I know it must be a magical time to be there. All the shops here are displaying Christmas decoration too.
    If it's any consolation, it's been wet and cold here for the past weeks, it doesn't even seem that summer is near.

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  5. Beautiful - I love the tree trunk legs of the table, and the whole wintry feel. It's 80 degrees in Los Angeles today, but I'd still rather be freezing in Paris!!

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  6. BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE IT! Happy almost Thanksgiving!

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  7. Holiday decorations are pretty. This is a nice window display. I do wish they wouldn't start so early in November. I get really sick of Christmas carols by the time Christmas arrives. Who can build to a climax for two months? I make it a two-week season so it's still fun and exciting. Then you can relax in bed for a couple days.

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  8. Tomate, hold on to yourself for the strikes. It's gonna be a biggie this time. Starting with today and no end announced as of yet.

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  9. This window certainly is gorgeous... however, I must agree that Christmas is getting earlier and earlier each year... I hate to think what it will be like 10 years from now -- Christmas decorations in August?! I just don't know!! The decorations are up here in Boston, too! Glad this isn't happening just in the US!

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  10. Is this the official opening of Christmas season at Paris Daily Photo or you just couldn't resist the magic of Christmas

    Écoutez les clochettes
    Du joyeux temps des fêtes
    Annonçant la joie
    De chaque coeur qui bat
    Au royaume du bonhomme hiver.
    Sous la neige qui tombe
    Le traîneau vagabonde
    Semant tout autour
    Une chanson d'amour
    Au royaume du bonhomme hiver.
    Le voilà qui sourit sur la place
    Son chapeau, sa canne et son foulard
    Il semble nous dire d'un ton bonasse
    Ne voyez-vous donc pas qu'il est tard ?
    Il dit vrai tout de même
    Près du feu, je t'emmène
    Allons nous chauffer dans l'intimité
    Au royaume du bonhomme hiver.

    Another gread picture Eric!

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  11. Eric,

    Je viens de trouver une des choses que j'aime le plus dans PDP : c'est "l'art de vivre" que tu communiques à travers les photos et tes propres commentaires.

    Cet art de vivre qu'on perd parfois de vue en raison des contraintes du quotidien (job, etc).

    Par le regard que tu portes sur ce qui nous entoure, tu donnes envie de profiter de toutes ces richesses ! Merci :)

    Et pardon de ne pas prendre la peine d'écrire cela en anglais !

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  12. I like how this display has no green and red, no Santa Claus with gifts, something different.

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  13. Ohh, I love the feeling of Christmas, and this 'Nordic fairytale...' you captured warms my soul. I do agree Christmas at the stores seems to be arriving earlier and earlier each year. Here in the Panhandle of Florida, Christmas displays went up just two days after Halloween displays came down. I think next year the displays will mesh and we will see witches on Santa’s laps and elves and little goblins playing together!
    Eric, I’ll make you a proposition, if you ship over a Buche de Noel, I will pack up some warm white sand and loads of sunrays to help you weather the cold and wet. Deal? ;)

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  14. What a fabulous picture...makes me long for snow (which we don't get much of here in the Dallas, TX area). I'm so glad I found your blog...I will visit again soon!
    Julie

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  15. That's really pretty. I prefer the fake snow to the real thing any day. It's been somewhat chilly here lately, but today is gorgeous it almost feels like summer instead of late fall, but alas I am stuck inside almost all day either in class or at work. And even though the weather may not be the best there I'd rather be in Paris anyway...

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  16. Great comment, Anon 11:40. Mais comment dit on L'Art de Vivre en Anglais de toute façon? C'est dommage car il me semble que c'est ce qui nous manque le plus dans notre beau continent Nord-Americain. On court, on court, et on ne voit plus rien, simplement qu'il faut courir sans arrêt, comme des rats de labos!

    I just came back to see if anyone noticed Eric's little comment on the "fattening goose..." Nope, I guess Eric, looks like you're skating this time. ;)

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  17. tomate...je suis vachement d'accord!! Sometimes I just cringe having to deal with my "fellow american" cretins on a daily basis. I have to slam the phone down and take a break after talking to some late twenties, early thirties "drone" that says "YEP" maybe thirty times during a "conversation" and speaks in a monotone that is barely understandable. Art de Vivre in American English?? Ce n'existe pas!! Beurkkkk!!!

    I'll take a nice fat goose and a foie gras entier any time...especially for Noel! ;-)

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  18. I looove the Christmas windows but why do they have to stat so early?

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  19. Simply gorgeous, puts me in the holiday mood already.

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