Day 7, Monday, September 4, 2023

I am having a tough time recovering from jet lag this trip, so today was a quiet day.  After supper we went for a walk to the Seine River. That is the business district in the distance.

On the way to the river we started to walk through a really pretty park, but a guard started blowing his whistle.  At first we thought it was because people were on the grass, but the park was closing at 7:00, so we had to leave.We walk by a huge Printemps store only to discover that it is a warehouse with a beautiful entrance.We find a little boulevard park to have tea and these sweet older ladies are sitting opposite us. I snuck a couple photos but they were a bit too far away so the resolution isn’t very good. I loved their outfits, that they were both sitting the same way with their canes between their knees, that their feet didn’t touch the ground…and they have such expressive faces.Soon another lady joins them.

And when the middle woman leaves, the third lady sits down and her feet don’t touch the ground either!  If I had more energy I would have gone over and introduced myself and asked if I could draw them.  I think the lady with the pink shoes knows I was photographing them but she didn’t say anything.