Late Spring Evening, near Lindsborg

It was a very pleasant evening and after being cooped up in a hospital since Thursday Sheryl took full advantage of the opportunity to enjoy a nice sunset from Coronado Heights. There was a cloud that looked big enough to eat Lindsborg, but by sunset it had mostly dissipated….

The Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, is also one of the world’s largest, housing over 35,000 objects over an area greater than 1/2 million square feet.

We visited in the middle of May this year and barely scratched the surface in terms of seeing the available exhibits. The Louvre is definitely …

On Sunday evening we took the short (one stop) ride down the block to visit one of the most interesting fountains in Paris, the Carpeaux Fountain. As I mentioned, we really, really like the area where we’re staying, and while we’ve ridden the buses all over the city, we’ve also spent a fair …

Here are a few photos from each of the past 3 days. I was doing great in terms of keeping up with the photos each day, but then we visited the Louvre on Friday. Between the two of us we took over 250 pictures!

Eventually I’ll post more photos from the …

On Thursday we took the 38 the other direction, away from the Seine. Our destination was Montparnasse Avenue, and eventually Montparnasse Tower, the tallest building in Paris.

Our plan was to take the 91 down the length of the avenue on the way to the tower. After exiting the 38 we didn’t see the …

I love paintings by Monet, and our trip to (the French-named city of) St. Louis awoke my interest in water lilies, so a trip to the Musée de l’Orangerie, was definitely in order. This building was specially built to display some of …

We began our first full day in Paris with a short ride on the 38 bus up to Luxembourg Gardens. Here’s a photo of the bus as it’s stopping right in front of our hotel.

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After picking up …