We are Home!

We arrived home safetly at the Detroit Airport at 4pm on September 1st. Our friend Rob drove us home from the airport. We discovered a beautiful garden and a house full of giftsl food and flowers. What a wonderful welcome home.

The Orangerie

The Orangerie was literally a glass house built to grow Orange trees during the cold months indoors. There are many in France - amoung the areas of Royalty. In the early 1900's Monet painted his famous waterlilies which were created to be in two special rooms to be built within the old Orangerie. The affect is calm, lovely and fabulous! I encourage you to look at the website and enjoy their photos to music!

In the lower level of the Orangerie, a collection of famous paintings once owned by the art dealer Paul Guillaume are displayed. The combination of these lovely paintings and the water lilies, allowed this to be our favorite muesum of famous paintings. And it's much calmer than the Louvre!

Here are a few Renoir paintings, a favorite of Allegra and Emily.....

And a few of Dan's favorites.....(sorry painter's name forgotten in this moment)

Saint Severin

Saint Severin


is between the Cluny Museum and Notre-Dame. We stopped inside to listen to the organ concert and enjoy the lovely and different architecture and windows. Later we returned for part of a mass. We visited 3 churches with organ concerts on Sunday, it was a very full day!

Notre-Dame Cathedral

After our picnic in the Gardens, we walked to the Cluny Muesum and then on to the Notre-Dame Catherdral where an organ mass was to be held in the late afternoon. We enjoyed our 2nd organ concert of the day, and then wondered about this huge church which took 200 years to build.

Jardin du Luxembourg

The Luxenbourg Garden is a lovely 60 acre garden with fountains, ponds with toy sailboat rental, pony rides, marionette shows, game areas and many benches and chairs to sit and rest and chat.

We enjoyed the Parisian art of people watching and picnic in the garden on Sunday afternoon.

Saint Sulpice

Saint Sulpice is famous for it's Sunday after mass organ concerts. We attended the concert, and then went upstairs with the organist to view the organ and see the church from above. We had hoped also to see the pipes, but that was not part of the tour! We were having so much fun, we forgot to take photos of the organ. You can find them on the website!

The Church prides itself on housing photo copy of the Shroud of Turin. Theis burial cloth is believed to be the one Jesus was wrapped in. A mysterious, holy stain of his image is on the cloth. The original cloth is in Turin, Italy.

Saint Sulpice is famous for it's Sunday after mass organ concerts. We attended the concert, and then went upstairs with the organist to view the organ and see the church from above. We had hoped also to see the pipes, but that was not part of the tour!

Rabbits at the Metro Exit

We were pleasantly surprised to exit the Subway in Paris near our flat to find a little park in which it's main purpose seems to be to house the Parisian Rabbits. The park completely sour rounded by busy streets, with no way to enter or exit but to/through the subway. At first we were so surprised by seeing a few rabbits. Then the more we looked we saw that they were ever where in the grass and in the bushes. They were living similar to the squirrels and chipmunks in our neighborhood at home. In the moment we were tired and in a hurry to get home, so we did not stay, nor did we return...here are the few photos we took in the moment!

Cluny Museum

We are sure we lived many live times during the medieval times. We feel so at home in the art and items of this time period.

The Cluny Museum has a wonderful collection of medieval art. The most famous item is the collection of the Lady and Unicorn Tapestries. Enjoy and let us know if you too feel cozy and comfortable with this art!

Art at the Louvre

We spent several morning/afternoons at the Louvre . It is huge and very crowded. We'll share a few of our favorite paintings with you here on our blog.
We spent several morning/afternoons at the Louvre . It is huge and very crowded. We'll share a few of our favorite paintings with you here on our blog.