City Of Light
Still hard at work, and enjoying every minute of it.
–rakkity
View of the Eiffel Tower from Trocadero.
E.T from under
Art Deco Brasserie at Saint Michel
Our meeting location–an observatoire of the 18th c.
April daffodils outside the cafeteria.
I love the underneath shot, but (as we discussed) the Eiffel Tower as a Christmas ornament is bizarre. Besides, how come no leopards hanging from the I-beams?
Comment by michael — April 6, 2006 @ 8:09 pm
These photos are so wonderful! They make me want to get back to Paris now. I love the brasserie shot especially….and all the hanging copper pots.
Comment by BIrdBrain — April 7, 2006 @ 7:50 am
I believe we might’ve eaten at that very brasserie — on the Rive Gauche, just below the Isle de la Cite, no? Afterwards we found a different glacier on the Isle and ambled north …
Very arty shot up the Tour’s skirt, Sir Rakk! The structure looks so delicate from afar, so massive from beneath …
Anything optical left inside that observatoire?
Comment by adam — April 8, 2006 @ 7:52 am
Not much optical left in any place we had access to within that building. Most of the observatory was off limits because of the re-construction. But there might be some historically interesting telescopes gathering cobwebs. We saw some back in Paris at the Observatoire where Cassini discovered 4 of the moons of Saturn in 1671-1672. http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMJ2T57ESD_people_0.html
Actually, most of the real research is done at observatories on high volcanoes in the Canary Islands, Hawaii, and So. America. Or in space. With some exceptions, the work at the home lab is in computer anaysis of data from elsewhere, or in making instruments to be attached to monster telescopes with pristine environments.
Comment by rakkity — April 10, 2006 @ 4:49 pm