Don’t know how the time goes so quickly, but here we are again feeling as though we’ve just unpacked only to be packing those suitcases again. Knowing that if our health holds up we will be back makes it a bit easier to leave.

I wanted to show you some photos from a super interesting exhibit we went to at the Musée de quai Branley which is a museum of anthropology. It is situated on the Seine with beautiful gardens – simple with tall grasses bordering the pathways. There are few flowers, just tall cooling grasses and other green plants. A couple of years ago I had a photos of the wall of plants on the outside done to demonstrate how plants can be used to make the environment cleaner (i’m not sure it accomplishes that be you get the idea). The photo below was taken about 10 years ago. The grasses are now about 6′ tall. I wish I had taken one this time to show you the comparison.

We came with our friends to see the exhibit entitled: Song Lines, Tracking the Seven Sister. “The exhibit takes us across the Australian desert on the trail of the Seven Sisters, one of Australia’s largest and most important legendary stories.” These stories are how Aboriginal communities passed down their knowledge from generation to generation. The works depict the Seven Sisters moving from one region of Australia to another while they sing to each other escaping an evil sorcorra who is trying to abduct one of them. He doesn’t succeed. While they travel they connect with the land and the Country, spelled with a capital C, as it is what they call their land.

It is hard to pick photos to show you because one is more beautiful than the other. Interspersed between these magnificent works (some woven and other painted) are the figures you see –the Seven Sisters – sometimes sitting around a fire and at other times flying through the sky. We thoroughly enjoyed the exhibit and what was even better we learned something about another culture that we had no idea about. After the exhibit we went to the roof-top bar/restaurant for a drink and a nibble. And what a view!

Yesterday we headed to Notre Dame to see what we’ve been told is a fantastic exhibit about the renovations and inner construction of the church. We were all excited — got an Uber — got over there through the mobs of people,only to find out it was closed. Yes — another French holiday that one doesn’t suspect until it is upon you. Yesterday was Pentecost Monday. And so – most everything was closed and the streets were packed as the weather was fantastic. The exhibit is underground and will be open, free, until the renovations are complete.

Not to be completely done in, we went to a lovely, fun outdoor bistro for a bit to eat.

You get an idea of the throngs of people all around. That’s the Palais de Justice in the background.

That’s the café-bistro. I took that from across the street.

Since I haven’t shown you any delicious pastries on this trip – mostly because we haven’t been walking as we usually do and thus don’t get to peer into the patisserie windows, here is our dessert from lunch yesterday. George had the restaurant’s version of a mille-feuille – translated it means a thousand leaves. The US version is a napoleon. In France it seems every restaurant has its own version of this famous dessert. This one was called, strawberry mille-feuille. I had a gourmand café. You might be familiar with this. I love this dessert — it is a sampling of the restaurant’s desserts with a tiny espresso. One never knows what the offerings will; I’ve never been disappointed.

I had a brownie, a little sweet cake, a créme brulée with a prune in the middle, strawberries with real whipped cream and a little glass of fruits. What could be better to end a lovely lunch on our next to the last day in Paris? Au revoir!!