Friday, April 26, 2013

Growing in Paris

Here is another very typical thing of the Paris scenery: tree grids! We Parisians tend to think they've always been there, but in reality they were designed by architect Jean-Gabriel Antoine Davioud during the last century, under Haussmann's "reign". Now things change and the authorities are more concerned about what we call "bio diversity" and the Paris town hall is experimenting new kinds of tree bases. I don't think tree grids will disappear anytime soon though ;-)

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  1. Last century? Really?
    Don't you mean the one before last?
    ;-)

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    1. Yeah yeah... To me the last century is stil the 19th!!

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  2. You won't believe this! I looked at the photo and thought I saw an interesting modern sculpture in the background. The joke is on me. Upon closer examination it is a bench!

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  3. Somehow, an improbable photo ....
    Growing against the city means a lot of proudness !
    Good to know about the tree grids.
    For those who would be interested, the Paris temperatures are going down today and the rain may come in the end of the day but it is still sunny at the moment :)

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    1. Shame I didn't look up into a dictionary before writing... Proudness does not exist... I meant Pride ... sorry ...
      I'm not proud at all.... !

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    2. The way I figure it, Cn, you made your meaning clear either way.

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    3. Thank you Petrea ! Your words are encouraging :) I feel a little better !...

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    4. You're welcome, Cn. Your English is very good. I speak only a bit of French and I can barely write it at all.

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    5. Proudness, pride... it's all the same CN!

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  4. How very appropriate, it's Arbor Day!

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    1. Really?? Where? In the whole world?

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    2. I found a link for you, Eric. I don't know about the rest of the world, but apparently each state in the U.S. has its own Arbor Day.
      http://www.arborday.org/arborday/arborDayDates.cfm

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  5. I love these. They're part of the Paris "look." I don't suppose the trees love them, though.

    France is beautiful in general these days, I'm so proud of her.

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  6. Eric, have you seen this book? "Five Hundred Buildings of Paris"?
    http://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Buildings-Paris-Kathy-Borrus/dp/1579128580

    I think a lot of your posts are similar to the format of this book in that you have a nice image, the location and brief commentary or history on the photo.

    Do you think you could ever curate your entries into a book?

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    1. Hey Stacey,

      Yes I still hvae this idea in the back of my mind, but making a book requires a lot of time. But I'm definitely working on it. Thanks for the encouragement anyway (Well I suppose it is LOL!)

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  7. Je suis a Paris. I am in Paris. The weather is like Minnesota! Rain and cold. Actually, it's warm in Minnesota now. But, I am in Paris, so I am in love with Paris.

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    1. Hi Jeff
      Bienvenue a Paris! Weather was nice until lunchtime.
      You must be tired, will catch up with you tomorrow.

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    2. Sorry for that... You came a little too early in the season!

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  8. Re tree grids, my wife tripped over one of them on our first trip to Paris - which isn't funny but it was at the time. :-)

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    1. As long as she did not get heurt! I heard terrible stories bout people tripping on such grids actually...

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  9. They'd better put a little fence around that patch of grass—lots and lots of pooping and peeing puppies in Paris!

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    1. Not anymore! People pick up after their dog now (yeah... right!)

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    2. Do they really?!! Wow!! I suppose a TOTAL no-smoking ban is next? ;)

      Tomate Farcie

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  10. I love this photo. Tree grids are like a childhood memory to me. I can't imagine Paris without them. (Although Paris did remove the traditional benches which was something I couldn't imagine they would ever do, but hopefully the tree grids fare better.)

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