Street Scene--Paris

Late this afternoon we had just left our small local supermarket (the Carrefour symbol is visible on the right) and crossed the street when a police siren sounded; they stopped behind a small car and three officers got out. They were searching the driver when I quickly took this one shot with my point-and-shoot (I wasn't carrying the bigger one).

The image is not wonderful but it has grown on me. Lots of details: the green container on the right where we recycle our glass bottles--with a political poster for the Front Gauche (a leftist splinter party in the current presidential election campaign). In that vein: François Hollande (the Socialist candidate) is being interviewed on France 2 as I write this comment.

Behind the police there's a mobile telephone store with the initials SFR, which provides our internet service. I captured both a bicycle and a motorcycle in front of the police--both omnipresent in Paris. And, not least, there are reflections from the car's windshield in the left foreground :)

More important: Today we went to the Musee Marmottan, for the Berthe Morisot exhibition (I had mixed reactions). She was the leading French impressionist painter (not forgetting the American Mary Cassatt). Notably: We've now attended exhibitions two days in a row by major women artists Yesterday was Artemisia Gentileschi at the Musée Maillol.

A very minor note. In reading French we have been fascinated by the word guéridon , denoting a small piece of furniture that I blipped in our apartment on Valentine's Day. The exhibition included Berthe Morisot's guéridon--very different from ours, with a single leg like this.