Slaughterhouse to Arts and Science
Mairie Du XIX Town Hall
Continuing our tour of the 19th Arrondissement in northeast Paris, on the 19th of July 2018, this set of photos is from outside the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont up to the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, which was the old slaughterhouse and textile district.
The blue area defines the route the photos cover.
NASA car. I don't know if it's electric, gas, peddled or some combination thereof.
Jean Macé was an educator, journalist and politician best known for establishing the Ligue de l'enseignement (League of Education) in 1866.
Buildings along the way.
Small cemetery where we saw the graveyard cats — https://photoofthedayetc.wordpress.com/2018/07/19/graveyard-cats/
Concrete building outside the cemetery gates.
Restaurants along the way.
The Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris is covered in netting because the glued panels are coming loose and falling off. The panels are being replaced.
La Grande Halle De La Villette is an old slaughterhouse turned into a cultural center. The Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris is on the left and the Cité de la Musique and Concert Hall are on the right.
Fountain in front of La Grande Halle.
Cité de la Musique Stone and Glass Concert Hall Complex (Philharmonie 2) behind the cafe, and the Concert Hall (Philharmonie 1) is to the left.
Top of the Galerie de la Villette.
La folie numérique event venue.
One of the many red structures around La Villette urban park with cultural institutions.
Raised walk above Galerie de l'Ourcq.
Looking southwest down the canal.
Play structure in Jardin du dragon.
The Cité des sciences et de l'industrie on the left and La Géode, which is an iMax type cinema inside a mirrored ball.
La Géode
Cité des sciences et de l'industrie.
Water feature in front of the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie.
Reflections in La Géode.
A Whole Lotta Grooming Going On
Swim
Get ready. Get set...
Groom
Lick
Gnaw
Hug
Groom
Wash
Preen
Clean
Finished
!Hasta la vista!
More Smoke From Another Distant Fire
Smokey skies from distant fires turned the sun into a large spot above the trees near the horizon last night.
The pink on the Sandias at sunset was covered by the smoke.
The sun was like a big ball over Sayre's barn.
The moon had a peachy color through the smoke.
Mars on the left under a twig. Saturn barely visible between the branches at left-center. The moon as a starburst in the center. Jupiter all alone on the center-right. Venus hanging on the edge on the far right.
The 19th on The 19th
One of many locks on the canals in northeast Paris.
On July 19, 2018, we met Anne, who I know from blogging, at République, and she took us on a long walking tour of the 10th and 19th Arrondissements. This first series of photos goes up to the highest point at Temple de la Sybille in the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont (under the "A" in "ARR." on the map below). I include a wide-ange view and various telescopic views from the Temple.
Door on the way to République.
République
Footbridge over the canal by a lock.
Hôtel du Nord used in a 1938 film of the same name.
History of Hôtel du Nord
Communist Party Headquarters
The courtyard of a hospital where Anne had been a patient.
Various buildings were in disrepair and had netting to keep pieces of the buildings from falling off.
Neighborhood along the way.
Living buildings with plants growing from roofs and balconies.
The Temple de la Sybille from another hill in the park.
Temple de la Sybille
Wide-ange view of Paris from north-northwest on the left to north-northeast on the right. The park was once a rock quarry.
View looking northwest.
Looking southeast.
Looking north.
Sacré-Cœur looking to the northwest.
Looking north.
Along the Way
Saint-Étienne-du-Mont Catholic Church
Along the way to the New Sorbonne, 5th arrondissement, Paris, France.
Altar area. Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet Catholic Church
Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet Catholic Church
Pipe organ. Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet Catholic Church
Escalier Végétalisé Rue Rollin. View from Rue Monge.
Corner of Rue des Bernardins and Rue des Écoles
The corner of Rue Lagrange and Rue Galande
Corner of Rue Lagrange and Rue de l'Hôtel Colbert
Bagworm Ballet
Bagworms are a real problem. We made a major assault on them last year by picking them off of everything we could reach, tying them in plastic bags and throwing them into the trash. We have fewer bagworms this year, but we still get a few hanging around. This bagworm was very active in its leaf bag dangling from a cottonwood. I photographed its ballet-like performance before I mercilessly disposed of it.
Élevé
Cambré
Épaulement
Cambré à gauche
Cambré à droite
Tours chaînés déboulés (with help from the breeze)
Ode de Toilette
The above style toilette is fairly common on the streets in Paris. But when you are out on the street they are not always as plentiful as we would have liked. More than once when we finally found one, really needing to use it, the darn thing would be out of order. Then we would find a bar, buy coffee and fizzy water, and they would let us use their restrooms.
There are several articles on the Internet right now about the "Uritrottoir", eco-freindly public street urinals that have apparently popped up in Paris recently. If they were on the streets a month ago, we missed them, but I got photos of a few other toilets around Paris. This article from EWN Eyewitness News has a good lead photo that illustrates why the Uritrottoirs are not sitting or standing well with Parisians: https://ewn.co.za/2018/08/14/paris-residents-peeved-at-very-public-eco-friendly-urinals.
We walked up and down both sides of the Seine in the red zone I marked out in the above map. If I had come across a Uritrottoir I would have photographed it. We walked all over NE, east and SE Paris this trip. According to my Fitbit, I logged 208,180 steps for a total of 98.45 miles during the eight days we were in Paris.
I did see these public urinals in several areas in Paris. However, I never saw anyone using them.
This is a fine example of a toilette in a men's room in the New Sorbonne. Note there is no lid to worry about putting up or down, convenient yellow floor, and grab bars that double as toilet paper holders.
This is the abstract version outside the National Conservatory.
Bitten by a Tse-tse Fly
I was lying on the deck, and...
Thinking about things to come, and...
I was minding my own business mind you. And...
I felt something in the air, and...
Something touched my hair, and...
Touching down on my neck, and...
My energy is draining. I'm feeling kind of sleepy now. I was bitten by a Tse-tse fly.
Oh! come on Spunk. That was a mosquito not a tse-tse fly, and it didn't bite you. I think you've been listening to too much Wall of Voodoo.
Peachy Keen
I didn't have time to prune the fruit trees back in February. As it turned out, 2018 is the first year in the past 12 years that we did not get late killer frosts. So guess what? Correct! Our fruit trees have fruit. Lots and lots of fruit. Our 5 in 1 plum tree we planted in 2000 gave us plums for the first time this year, and the peach tree is prolific — between bending branches and all the wind falls it seems like we have peaches everywhere. I spent most of the day peeling peaches, layering them with sugar in containers and freezing them.
Sliced layer of peaches ready for sugar.
Egg cartons work well for holding fruit.
The production area.
Inside the Castle
A lot of photos of the interior with views from the interior of Vincennes Castle on the eastern edge of Paris, France.
Selfie
The Natural History Museum in Paris had a special exhibit with a skeleton of Tyrannosaurus Rex that they were making a big deal about. The complete skeleton was assembled in a running posture in a dark, narrow room, with a "selfie" skull projected on the floor where people were supposed to stand or kneel to take selfies with T-Rex.
View in front of the "selfie" spot.
The room was so narrow that it was difficult to get a side view of T-Rex even doing a panorama with a 17mm super-wide angle lens.
The room was was joined by two corridors on the tail end of T-Rex. This shot shows how narrow the room is.
On the way out from T-Rex, they had games the kids were playing. In this one, dinosaurs imitated whatever motion a person in the circle did.
In this display, the kid on the bike is chasing T-Rex on the screen in front of the bike, while being chased by T-Rex on the screen behind the bike.