Late Spring in Paris

It's now June and while Paris is a bit rainier and cooler than usual, it's still lovely.  Flowers are in bloom in the Jardin du Luxembourg and on people's balconies.

Most of the chestnut trees (which you find everywhere in Paris) are past bloom, but this one above seems to not have gotten the message!

I took my sister up in the Tour Montparnasse.  This is me looking down on the Eiffel Tower.  As I am afraid of heights, this is rather daring of me.

Birds can be found in parks.  Paris has pigeons, like every other large city, but this fellow is the wild cousin of the normal city pigeons.  He's bigger, has different markings, stays in trees more and is much less willing to get close to you.

In the Jardin du Luxembourg, the fruit trees have fruited. They are grown in a special manner called espalier to produce a lot of fruit on trees that have branches only in one plane. The fruit is also covered with paper to protect it from various insects (a nice alternative to pesticides!).

There are concerts in the park:

And it doesn't get dark until almost 10 pm right now.  I think the long days are pretty wonderful!