A golden moment at lunch

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When I choose not to eat, I like to wander around during my lunch time.

Today, I was walking around the lower Champs Elysées when a golden glint caught my eye.

As I approached, I saw more and more gold.

For some reason, the Monet exhibition at the Grand Palais had been evacuated. Clearly there was not a fire that had destroyed all of the paintings, or the whole world would know by now. Probably just one of the usual bomb threats.

It was chilly, and you can't really stop off at the cloakroom to collect your stuff when you are being evacuated, so clearly the firemen had handed out a 'couverture de survie' to anybody who felt they needed one. This is sure to be a treasured souvenir for a lot of the tourists.

[bixaorellana]

!!!

I thought you were referring to the magnificent golden trees in the first picture. What an oddly magical moment in the middle of a regular day. I'm glad you went for that walk.

[tod2]

Kerouac, what a 'golden' photo opportunity indeed! I notice that the clipped 'box' trees on the Champs Elysees still look quite green as opposed to the red-brown leaves of the other trees?

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The horse-chestnuts lining the Champs Elysées are about the last trees in Paris to lose their leaves and/or change colour. In fact, the leaves don't even fall spontaneously -- it takes lots of rain and wind to yank them loose all through the winter, and even in February you can see some leaves still clinging to the branches.

On the other hand, they are about the last trees in Paris to sprout in the spring.

[lola]

We're lucky K, a true photojournalist, takes his camera when he goes to lunch.