Paris in 5 1/2 Weeks : Photos # 9 – To the Tuileries (Day 9, 2 of 2)

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Paris in 5 1/2 Weeks : Photos – # 9

To the Tuileries

(Day 9, 2 of 2)

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Intro

We started Day 9 with the question, where’s Day 8?

In the previous post, I wrote :

I can’t say for sure, I do have a few days missing in the sequence of images saved, but I do know we were still there, and “probably” didn’t go out, expect for maybe a bite or groceries, that day.

And, we were either very tired, or the weather got really yuk. ;-)

But here we are, the beginning of Day 9.

After an already long day of walking, we begin the finishing of the daylight day near the Place de Concorde.

Sunset is before 5 p.m.!

Eiffel Tower, Late Fall Sunset, Place de Concorde

So ;-) Post 1 of 2 of Day 9 left off at the wooded spaced of the Tuileries at the back of the Musee de l’Orangerie.

And now we begin to see the front area around this smaller museum, filled with Monet’s huge panels of waterlilies, plus a nice array of selected impressionist work.

To the left is the Tuileries Palace road, one way heading east. The Place de Concorde is to the right.

Visible above the tree line, like a needle, is the Eiffel Tower.

Eiffel Tower at Dusk, From Southwest Corner of the Musee de l’Orangerie

More of both the Eiffel Tower and the Place de Concorde is visible with a slight shift to the right.

Sheila and I would be returning to this spot many times in the next month, and I’ll have more photos then, especially of the giant carrousel to the right of this image, and fronting the Champ Elysees, with the Arc de Triomphe at the other end of the grand boulevard.

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Jets Over the Eiffel Tower

The Pont de la Concorde‘s northern side is seen here.

Traffic is heavy, and the evening is arriving.

There was a palpable sense of peace.

Even with all the traffic, there was a sense of quiet. For a moment anyways. ;-)

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Eiffel Tower, View from Pont de la Concorde

The view from the Pont de la Concorde is stunning. Though the Eiffel Tower isn’t lit for the night yet, it presents a great silhouette against the sunset sky. ;-)

Clicking on the image gives a nice look at some of the objects in the distance, like the light on the four golden statues on the ends of the Pont Alexandre III straight ahead on the Seine.

Evening Traffic along the Quai des Tuileries

This is actually an image I took just after the last picture in Day 9′s 1 of 2 post, came upon it after setting up these posts, so was able to insert it here.

It does give a nice contrast to how quickly the day darkened into evening a very short time later.

The tree line to the right is where the two dogs were playing in that last photo from post 1 of Day 9, and the road here is the Qaui des Tuileries. This link is to a short video on YouTube (not mine.) But shows a little more, at a different time of year.

Sheila and I had walked almost the whole route from our apartment to these views of the Eiffel Tower and Paris sunset. As mentioned in Part One, we had had to get off our bus due to a manifestation (protest.) ;-)

Below is pretty near to where we our apartment was as we walked back.

It was a welcome sight, knowing we were close to being home. ;-)

Metro Entrance, Dusk

One of my favorite images, the lights glowing in the evening.

Originally, the image was much darker, but working the shadow settings in Photoshop, I was able to bring it closer to what it looked like to us as we walked by back home.

The figure to the left was visible in the photo til I’d made the adjustments!

The Wikipedia article on this metro stop, Solferino, includes a very similar image as mine, but in the spring, in the day. ;-)

The article has a short history of the station, and concludes :

“Solférino is one of the last stations in which the original Nord-Sud Company style of décor has been maintained, with its characteristic large ceramic tablets indicating the name of the station. This is the result of extensive renovation.”

Maintaining a living usable remembrance of one’s history in a place, is one of the things I love about Paris.

It is an important element I try to show, and have discovered, in my fictional work set in Paris.