Dreaming of France: Kicking back in the Sun at the Tuileries

Le Jardins de Tuileries (from my instagram) I took this photograph last Spring on our trip to France. I love how most everyone is simply relaxing in the sun, sleeping even, in the middle of the work week. Every week for the last few years, I've tried to create a French themed blogpost like this one, here or at Chapter1-take1 to connect with my friend Paulita's Dreaming of France meme . I call her my friend but we've never met. You know how that weird internet thing can be, connecting you with strangers from around the globe in oddly intimate ways. Now Paulita, who has been dreaming and fantasizing about living in France for years, sharing her photos, her memories from her trips, is actually doing it. After taking oodles of journeys to France, waiting for their kids to reach adulthood, scouting out locations, she and her husband put their house on the market. The house is in escrow and in the next couple of months, escrow will close and they'll be gone. ...