I must be in a food mood, winter coming and all that…
So instead of a video, I thought you might like a peek at things that I or people I was with have eaten and that I thought looked good at the time.

To have a closer look at the photos, all you have to do is either to click on the one you’d like to see or go to the flickr set here

Sorry to have upset a number of commenters with my gigantic spider photo.
I am not all that fond of spiders myself, to say the least.
But one thing I didn’t mention and that you may not know if you’ve never been to Paris and to the Tuileries gardens, is that these gardens are the gardens outside the Louvre. So the buildings you can see in the background are on rue de Rivoli and if you could look beyond the spider, you would see the buildings of Le Louvre, with the Caroussel in the foreground.

Taken in summer, the Tuileries, the Carrousel and Le Louvre

I have no idea if that spider is here to stay or if it’s a temporary exhibition, but believe me it is quite an incongruous sight in those surroundings.

As for the bird poop, years ago, I was walking in Cannes with my husband and suddenly felt something fall on my head, namely bird poop. I had rather longish hair at the time and it took a lot of shampoo to get rid of the horrid stuff. I can still remember my husband’s uncharitable snicker
For those of you who might not understand why a lot of Parisians are not so fond of birds, in spite of their charming songs, here is an example of what they do

This door ornament is practically covered with poop

On April 1st in France, people play tricks on their friends, teachers, etc… one of children’s favourite tricks being to hang paper fish onto people’s backs. You can also tell them an unlikely story and shout “Poisson d’avril” at the end, to acknowledge it’s a prank.

A year ago I made this mosaic, composed of fish photos, real or made of stone, taken in Paris or elsewhere, and posted it on flickr on April 1st

Poisson d’avril ! One man’s fish is another man’s poisson!

The mosaic was created thanks to fd’s Flickr Toys
Thanks to Kay, from Kay’s Thinking Cap who provided me with this great line!

I took this photo at Pont Alexandre III. It was absolutely freezing as you can see from the photographer’s clothes.
No wonder those models are so skinny, just working in this kind of weather makes you lose calories!

Today’s theme was hot, so several ideas came to my mind

On a hot summer day

hot poop strictly forbidden

Nothing like steaming hot food on a chilly day

Pink for October

like this pink flower

like a hand begging for help

like this yummy pastry

like my daughter’s scarf

Practical if you have a bottle of wine to open

Practical when you are cooking

Practical to light a candle or the stove

Practical to measure a piece of material

This week’s theme, paper, allows for all sorts of interpretations. Here are some possibilities.

As I am pretty lazy, I mostly use paper napkins, including at Christmas

Reading the paper

Someone copied one of Baudelaire’s poems on this paper, and put it on his tomb.

On Charles Baudelaire’s tomb