I'd like to walk about the streets of Paris again and enjoy the beauty of the ornate almond-ecru colored buildings. What care they put in to build these buildings in natural shade almost uniform, and yet each one so different in design, one cannot help but make many stops in order to appreciate the infrastructures. And down below are bursts and splashes of colors by the fruit stores as well as pattiseries and boulangeries seemingly in every corner. No wonder French people do not hoard food frozen or chilled in their refrigerators for the next meal because fresh supplies can be had in street corners. Of course the myriad of restaurants with their alfresco dining never lack of customers watching people go by as they converse and eat at leisure.

Is this how the  French clip their baguettes under their arms?

I wonder what the reidents are doing as we walk by their  apartment buildings

one of the many rental bike stations all  over Paris

dining alfresco 

a group of friends using he  bikes

One thing that caught my eye are the bike stations where the public can use the bikes to go places in Paris and return the bikes in the stations of their destinations or in the station where they got them from. Coming from New York, I am amazed that these bikes although for public use look new and are not vandalized. I do not know how the system goes in terms of fees, but using them with care and respect says a lot of Parisians' sense of honor system. Now I am hearing that New York City is launching a bike-sharing program in July. Annual fee that allows members to use the bike free for45 minutes each day is $95, additonal fees are charged after. This program is also open to tourists. Hmmm...I have yet to see how successful this program goes...in New York. (this should be interesting...hmmm...) In New York!!!!