Stairway to (art) heaven

The Picasso museum.  As it turned out, only half of the permanent collection is available to the public..the other half..something about remodeling/restorating, I forgot.  I think it has something to do with the building being "cut in half" by this mirroresque wall.  Oh, and about a week ago, someone stole a booklet of some of Picasso's designs..it's estimated at 8 million euros, according to my art history professor. Good luck selling that (and Picasso staff, you are worthless if you let that escape the museum, tsk tsk tsk). 

The never ending stairs of Sacre Coeur. Kids these days. 

Keeping abreast

He's looking for her baguette. Wait, shouldn't it be the other way around? The French and their humor. Oh and you can see Sacre Coeur in the distance...

Next to the inappropriate boulangerie these fashionable tots ran by, and it seems like they're chasing a pigeon...or maybe that stand/display scared them off?

Rain or shine.

A garden with a view .Monet's water lily pond at his house in Giverny.  This is where he painted his famous "Pont Japonais.." 

I don't know, I like the reflection of "la Grande Dame." Rainy day in Paris, can you tell? 

In-seine-ly in Louvre

Lovers of the Louvre. Cupid (Amor) and Psyche, by Antonio Canova.

Lovers of the Seine.  Anonymous and Anonymous, by God. 

Odd positions...Firenze 2

To me, this angle just does not look appropriate. What do you think?

There ARNO bad pictures of Florence. 

All the small things..Firenze 1

I'm VERY small, and this car came up to my shoulderish.  The owner might as well give it to me. 

"Il Duomo," of the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore,  from the inside. The Sistine Chapel has met its match, NOT. 

Love, angel, music..

There was a protest( the Europeans ADORE their rights, like protesting)  in Piazza Navona and this man, I believe, set the mood for the scene. You had the police standing on one side, the protesters on the the other, helicopter hovering above,and this man was right in the middle of the chaos, and yet he cared about nothing else but making beautiful music. 

The Ponte Sant' Angelo seemed to be the "it" place for wedding photography. This couple kept its cool, despite the crowd, and as they were about to finish, another couple strolled the now famous bridge (it's the final bridge in Angels & Demons where Tom Hanks is guided by the angels..Sant' Angelo...make sense now?)

I dedicate this post to Pau, my true (and only) fan.