Sunday, June 20, 2010

Paris Pictures

It seems so long ago that were were there so Ill just send you on a trip to the famous painter Claude Monet web site. http://www.intermonet.com/ We visited his gardens and we enjoyed walking along the rows of flower gardens. He loved to paint flowers. He has a famous painting of blue Irises. A lake is in the middle of his garden where he loved to go every day with a pile of painting canvasas and as the sun moved off his subject he picked out another canvas and worked on another piece.We walked accross the bridge over the water lillies. The subject of many of his paintings.
http://www.interagir.com/?entryID=36
The beautiful Iris photo from Monets garden
During the rest of our stay we visited the famous Louve Gallery which houses a famous painting called the Mona Lisa. It was difficult to see as so many people were looking at it.
I think the highlight of our visit in Paris was the trip to the Castle of Versailles. http://en.chateauversailles.fr/homepage The day we were there they were playing the fountains as a Movie crew was filming. My little video gives a tiny glimps into the enormous gardens the Kings had. These are turned on at 12 .30 pm each day for half an hour only. When King Louis walked his garden apparently they were on a sensor and truned on and off as he approached.

A Fountain Playing

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