The male counterpart of the caryatid is called a telamon. I thought they were called atlantes, but just found out that atlante is in fact the French word for telamon
Anyway, I find them quite impressive.

Introducing a new weekly feature, one that will not require a lot of writing, to show you what I am doing with my new Flip Video, or older clips that were filmed with my normal camera.
And the winner of this week was taken at the market on a Sunday morning, five minutes away from my flat. Just appreciate the atmosphere

For a better view, let the clip load completely before watching.

If oysters make you feel squeamish, please look away!

This is one of the oysters I had when at Mont-Saint-Michel at the beginning of June. I stayed overnight and had a dinner of oysters with a waffle for my dessert. Not really your classic dinner, but just what I felt like having.

Just noticed that my blogiversary had taken place and gone and that I didn’t even notice!
Well, it’s been four years, four years since I started this blog, right at the time when I discovered that I had breast cancer.
I was still working then, and was expecting retirement on September 30th 2004. Given surgery and radiation therapy, I didn’t even notice that I had retired until it was all over.
It was quite a change in my life, one that I thoroughly enjoyed, once radiation therapy was over and done with.

Since then, I have started photography, and using several different cameras, become a flickr addict, opened and dropped other blogs, and of late taken up exercising for health, which is taking up a lot of my time.
These days I find it difficult to post regularly. I just try to stick to my Wednesday Window routine, since that is one that is not time consuming.
Sometimes I feel tempted to give up blogging, but you see, I have made quite a lot of friends while blogging, some I’ve actually met for real, and others that I only correspond with through our blogs or through email. So blogging has become part of my life, a part of my social life that I really appreciate.

I am taking a break with my French blog for the summer. Will I start again, come September? We’ll see. I think that two blogs, not counting ElderExercise, which is more like an exercise log, is too much work. And I don’t want blogging to become a chore for me. I want it to go on being fun.

So will Blogging in Paris still be around next year? Who knows?

I took this photo while visiting a friend in Normandy, not very far from Bénerville, where I go on holiday.
I like the green in it.

Just to keep you posted on the things I do and that keep me away from my blogs..
As I’ve mentioned before, my friend Fazou is a great quilter and has been part of a quilters’ association for some years now. I started taking photos at the meetings and last Thursday, I filmed a few clips with my darling Flip Video. stitched them together with iMovie and here’s the result.

Sonata No. 10 In C Major, K. 330 - III. Allegretto by W. A. Mozart, performed by Vadim Chaimovich

For better viewing, let the clip completely load first, and then watch it.
And no worry, flickr doesn’t allow more than 90 seconds’ videos, which I find perfect.
Not time to get bored

I took this photo while visiting Abney Park Cemetery back in March 2008. Abney Park Cemetery is one of London’s Magnificent Seven. I must admit that it was not my favourite cemetery, but still, it was quite interesting.

Thanks to Leo Reynolds, for the visit of that cemetery and for suggesting this photo for Wednesday Window.

I am definitely not in a blogging mood these days!

Naomi from A Little Red Hen and myself have joined our efforts in a cooperative blog, ElderExercise. Each of us has different aims and practises exercise in quite a different way, but we try to support one another.
We both feel that we are ready to welcome new members, and after a call on Naomi’s blog, we have been joined by Kay from Kay’s Thinking Cap
Naomi suggested me to post this feeble attempt to join my exercise efforts to my newly acquired taste for video clips
So here goes

Walking in my neighbourhood *

* Music: Square1 by Derrius Dean
Attribution alike, some rights reserved
I took this clip on my first time out with my Flip Video camera

If you are 55 or over, are willing to exercise some and to post at a cooperative blog at least once a week and to support co-bloggers through positive and encouraging comments, you can write us at elderexerciseATgmailDOTcom
replace AT by @ and DOT by .

I’m afraid you’re probably not going to like this photo, but I like it so here goes.
I took this on the Right Bank of the river Seine, looking at the left bank.

Strangely enough, I don’t have a photo of a bouquiniste stall, open, and selling old books, prints or postcards, but other people on flickr do, like Cyrille Breton, or bocàngel

It can’t be the first time I entitle a post ‘Time flies’. Well, the older I get, the more I feel it. Is it because I am slower, or because I like taking up new things with new toys?
Is it the (almost) daily exercise? It might be a bit of all these things put together.
I just realised that I still have photographs that I took last summer in Manchester, and that I haven’t processed, sorted out or uploaded yet.
And there’s this new toy I got that takes up a lot of my time.

My brand new Flip Ultra Video

and the time it takes to process the video clips I take with it
So of course, I try to combine everything together,

All set to do Word Time 6 and bike at the same time

Or I walk and use my Flip while walking.

Because of flickr video feature, I have gone through the photos I have accumulated through the years and fished out a few clips that I took with my video camera and am trying to tame iMovie to edit them and upload them.
Like this one I took last September with my Lumix FZ8, when I went to Chaumont sur Loire with my friend Sarah.

In a hammock with Sarah*

I have no idea where my second foot had disappeared, but I swear it was there.
So between one thing and another, I just don’t have much time for blogging, although I am also posting once a week at ElderExercise.
I do try to read blogs as much as I can, but that’s still not much! Sorry about this.

* The music is an extract of Franz Schubert’s Sonata in B flat performed by David H. Porter, copyright free music (public domain music).