d'Orsay Can You See?

Yesterday's post, unadulterated - is the 110-year-old clock in the Gare d'Orsay, a fabulous Beaux Arts style train station better known, since 1986, as The Musee d'Orsay, home to the world's largest collection of impressionist paintings by such painters as Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin and Van Gogh. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986. This is where you would find Whistler's Mother, along with many other paintings I'd only previously seen in books. Before the Gare was converted to a museum, it was the setting for Orson Welles' The Trial. The Ferris Wheel visible in the background is at the Tuileries, a beautiful garden that extends from The Louvre to the Champs Elysees.

The good stuff:

The 7 Lezards

Bremner Duthie singing Leonard Cohen's Chelsea Hotel

guitar jams

Leprechaun pie

steamed shrimp

cool Fall mornings

Red Box

road trips

chick flicks

Sparkpeople