Postscript: For more on the beautiful statuary at Montmartre's cemetery, visit Peter's great post HERE.
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Monday, January 27, 2014
Dreaming of Paris and Remembering Montmartre
Postscript: For more on the beautiful statuary at Montmartre's cemetery, visit Peter's great post HERE.
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I'm sorry to hear you have been down in the dumps lately. I hope it is mostly weather related and not something more serious. Thinking back to your Paris trip is a good way to take your mind to a happier place. I hope a little kitty love will bring at least a bit of cheer to your day.
ReplyDeleteSuch a sweet and thoughtful post! I'm sorry you've been feeling down in the dumps, and I hope time and kitty love will help you feel better. Your photos are lovely. The French cat reminds me of our Waddles, who died two years ago. She was a black and white, half-Persian beauty and a sweet doll. I'll always miss her.
ReplyDeleteI hope you are cheering up, though it looks like this weather is going to stay around for a while. I hope you'll post a Paris memory that's cheerier than the cemetery! How about some Paris music?
ReplyDeleteSuch a lovely remembrance of Gypsy and of your visit to a special time in Paris. I would have loved walking there with you and now I feel that I have. Your sweet girl is such a cutie too.
ReplyDeleteBoth kitties are wonderful and beautiful! I'm so happy you adopted the Mom cat. So many people like kittens better, but older cats are just so magnificent and full of personality, which of course, you know.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry you've been feeling down. I send hugs across the miles. And btw, i love your photos of Paris. :)
An interesting post that I enjoyed reading. Some nice images.
ReplyDeleteThank you. Love love, Andrew. Bye.
They say travel opens our minds to options we wouldn't have considered, if we'd stayed home.........
ReplyDeleteMaybe your Montmartre cat is an example of exactly that.
Love the pic of Lizzie with the tulips! She's a beauty.
My best friend just took in a cat whose "human mom" died. His days of adjustment are behind him and he seems content in his new home.
ReplyDeleteThis statement reminds me of how optimistic you are, Jeanie: The rain made the stones deeper, richer in color. The flowers just "popped."
I'm so sad to read that you are down. Long cold winters can't help and this newly initiated to cold CaliGirl shares a bit of that slump. Give Miss Cossette an extra cuddled and she'll purr right back, I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to hear about your doldrums. I've been thinking about Paris a lot lately myself, so coming here today is a treat. (and I love your background art, just gorgeous) I love seeing Peter and hope to meet him one day. It's been 8 years since my last trip, and I feel that the time to return is getting closer.
ReplyDeleteYour photos are superb, and that cemetery is a world of fascination.
Be well, be better.
Sorry you're feeling low, it's been a depressingly cold and snowy winter. It's good you have such good memories and photos of Paris to help. And visits from old friends are always good. Take care of yourself.
ReplyDeleteI have been feeling down lately, too, and we share a reason for our down feelings. I do live in a much warmer climate where the sun comes out more so that does help, but not as much as I would like. I'm homesick and sad about difficult things friends are feeling with and I pine for easier times... but life moves on, I suppose.
ReplyDeleteI love the cemetery shots. I meant to get there on my last trip but then it didn't happen... guess that means I need to go back to Paris. :)
This post really warmed my heart, bringing also to me the memories of some very nice moments I spent with you and Rick! I also noted that your pictures are of some of my favourtie graves, including the one of the woman, actually made by a mother, on the tomb of her 20 year old son. It was possibly the only statue she ever made.
ReplyDeleteYou must be back for a new visit, on a sunny day ... when all the cats will be more easily visible!
Jeannie, Sorry this never-ending winter is bringing you down. Thinking of Paris often improves my mood. These pictures are so interesting and I love the cat. Thanks for playing along today.
ReplyDeleteSending you some blazingly hot summer weather vibes, Jeanie (it was 40C today). I love that you took on the mother cat (even if she wasn't ginger; and I do love ginger cats surpassing all others) - that was such a kind thing to do.
ReplyDeleteBonjour Jeanie,
ReplyDeleteI got notice of your new post rather late this morning, but here I am dear one.
I just cannot even begin to understand this sort of grief with a friend. I have lost parents, and that was wrenching, for when they leave, they take a part of you with them. I have lost other relatives, and that is surreal. I have never however, lost a pet; all of my pets either ran away or were given away! But to lose a friend? I can't bear this. To lose a friend as such would be like losing your own daily rhythm, like loosing a step in your walk...
Paris is a perfect place to mourn, to make joyful, to reflect, to grow. I hope that this trip will last a lifetime in your memory and know that one day.....we will all be reunited.
Anita
Big Hugs coming your way my friend. I know a lot of friends who are feeling this way too. Maybe the weather, hope it gets better soon.
ReplyDeleteStay warm and enjoy those Paris memories - love d seeing the photos!!
xo
Leann
Those special pets that will hold a place in our hearts forever...I am sorry you are sad but it looks like your kitty with the beautiful tulips will give you lots of nudges....
ReplyDeleteOh good - now we're FB friends (again!) I took a leave of absence for a while....
ReplyDeletewhat a lovely post pouring out and sharing some of your sorrow...
ReplyDeleteI hope that doing so will lighten your load a bit (stumbling to find the words)...here is a quote of what I am trying to express...
"Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow”...
thank you for sharing
a trip to Paris and especially the cemetery there is wow!
warm (((hugs))) from frigid Virginia
oxo
I'm unsure of the reason for your feeling low - it seems perfectly reasonable to me that weather alone would be enough. I hope it's only that, for it will change, and in not such a long time.
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering about something. I went looking in your Paris posts for the photo of the bridge with the padlocks, and couldn't find it. Can you lay your hands on it? I need to refer to it in a post I'm going to write. Don't go to too much effort - I may be able to surfact it using Google, but I thought I'd ask in case you can find it easily.
Our freezing rain has stopped, and the little sparrows and my ONE goldfinch are flying again and eating. Tonight we may get into the upper 20s - so cold for us! - and then some warming comes. Sending much warmth your way, Jeanie!
Oh! Of course I know why else you might be feeling despondent - indeed, I do. Here's an extra hug, and hopes that the sorrow eases away soon.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you have a new soft sweetie to cheer you! We enjoyed haunting the cemetery's of Paris looking for famous writers. Fascinating places. Thanks for the good word on my shop!
ReplyDeleteJeanie, I think we all need to have some 'Walter Mitty ' daydreaming in the depth of a cold winter. I remember your trip to Paris and the wonderful photos you'd posted. Thanks for the revisit. Hope your weather will improve soon. We're having nasty snow and wind today. Great time to go blog hopping.
ReplyDeleteNow how can you be feeling gloomy with that little love of a cat sitting next to you. It think your needing a few more cats! Oh yes, a lot more cats. I have lets count... um... seven.... and I am the happiest person you'd ever want to meet! lol... now get busy and get some fur babies missy!
ReplyDeletebig hugs,
Cheryl
lovely post. Sending you warm Aussie thoughts. Remembering Paris is a beautiful way of taking care of yourself. Lovely photo's mean we can all remember our time there too. Take care :)
ReplyDeleteIt is always sad to remember those we loved. I hope thinking of Paris has given you something to smile about.
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