in the cafe at the VandA, a young man is playing bach without looking at the keyboard

you can SEE that she's annoying him !

a "D", two corners, and a spot ... signifiers anticipating a mid-morning narrative

night must fall on paris

if you ever run out of ideas when you are redecorating ...

cat

the old ballroom in the gare d'orsay

metalwork

signage

a few bits of old stained glass

blue stuff

what's the french for wurzel gummidge ?

red stuff, green stuff

what should a discerning librarianette nibble whilst watching all four episodes of lost in austen for the third time ?

some of the astonishing rubens series commissioned by marie de medici to celebrate and legitimize her regency of the french throne

... after her husband's unfortunate assassination

http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/detail_notice.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673225634&CURRENT_LLV_NOTICE%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673225634&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=9852723696500812&bmLocale=en

in the louvre ... the big (next?) version of the national gallery's picture by the anonymous master of the saint bartholomew altarpiece