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You can always tell when a picture was taken in 2010.  My Sony NEX 5 had that little triangle as an unwanted bonus feature.  Neither I nor anyone at Sony could figure out how to get rid of it.  I took a few of the little pointy problems out of special images with Photoshop; these several years later I am glad I left most of them; they are sort of a time stamp;  by the time I got back to Paris in 2012 I had upgraded to a NEX 7, sans triangle.

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The spiral staircase of the apartment I sometimes occupy on Isle de la Cité…

Parc Monceau

Over by l’Arsenal de Paris and La Bastille on January 2 of some year.

This is as close as I have ever gotten to getting the lights on La Seine captured in an image.  The real thing is the real thing; this is a pale reproduction.

The Screen Saver served up this cropped image I shot with telephoto from the fourth floor of my apartment on Quai aux Fleurs; that apartment allowed me to be flaneur and voyeur both at once.

There is a bird dead center of this image.

And there is a bird in this sack. This bird is great for dinner and the leftovers, and a half baguette ordinaire, makes a great sandwich to eat by the little lake at Parc Montsourris.

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A Walk On A Sunny Day In Seattle

Every now and then I post pictures I have taken on a walk.

Usually the walk has been in Paris.

Sometimes it has been on the boardwalk at Anacortes while I am waiting for a ferry.

It has never been in Seattle.

And there is a reason for that: in my neighborhood there isn’t much worth taking pictures of; but yesterday it was different.

It was really nice, sunny, no clouds and 80 degrees.

And everything that can bloom is blooming; and all the birds that live around here were out in the bushes just begging to have their pictures taken.

I took a surprising number of images.

Here are a few of them.

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The lavender in the bed in front of the house is as beautiful as it ever gets.

But there are alarmingly few bees; this guy had the whole plant to himself.

In front of the house a robin was still singing the Robin Morning Song; or he was early at singing the Robin Evening Song; my grandmother always called the song calling for rain.

The Tiger Swallow Tail had the whole bush to herself.

As I said, things are blooming.

And some of the fruit trees are beginning to look serious about contributing to the food supply of the local birds.

It looks like an olive tree but it isn’t.

I like to take pictures of dead trees in the water.

I saw this killdeer running around in the plantain flowers; the flowers make getting the bird focused difficult.

This heron really did seem to be posing.

Mount Rainier

Giverny?

I like turtles.

And, finally, this flower seemed to sum up the beauty of the day.