Dérive

Top to bottom: Jardin du Luxembourg in the snow, Marie du Ve lit up with Xmas lights, and Rue Clovis. For a while I thought there might be some hidden Frankish history in the central valley of California, but Clovis, CA is not named after Clovis, but after Clovis Cole.

Heine, Truffaut

In Montmarte Cemetary.

French Xmas

Assorted French Xmas goods, from top to bottom: salmon eggs, chestnut creme, chocolate sardines, goose fat.

Paris Snow

It's been lightly and pleasantly snowing here, just enough to give things the proper joyeux Noël feeling.

Fontaine de Médicis

In the Jardin du Luxembourg.

Sapience

Owl and serpent mosaic in the entryway to the Département d'Études Cognitives, ENS.

Le Panthéon

It snowed all day yesterday but today was perfectly clear and sunny. I've worked out my morning commute so that I can check out what's playing at La Filmotheque and then walk by the Panthéon.

Paris Wintertime

Rue Montorgueil

Pergamonmuseum

The Pergamonmuseum is Berlin's massive museum of ancient art and architecture. The only thing that would make it more impressive would be if it itself was taken apart, shipped to some distant country and, like the Pergamon Altar, enclosed in an even more enormous museum.