we'll always have paris

i came across this beautiful flickr photostream; april in paris, filled with lovely photos of their april spent in paris today whilst trying to avoid buckling down and learning about cleopatra. these photos are mesmerising and enthralling, they are so calm and filled with such mundane beauty. Who was it, one of the romantics, who said that in everyday activities one can see beautiful things. That's the feeling i get from these photos. Some of them are of icons in paris, like the eiffel tower and the arc de triomphe, but most of them are just of everyday, ordinary things, flowers, cheese, pastries... but they are beautiful in their ordinariness i think. 

those who like fashion and art and history are often spoiled for beauty, with whimsical and fantastical couture dresses tempting the eyes, antique furniture and old buildings, statues, paintings, watercolours, all dominating of our attention. Sometimes it's easy to forget the ordinary when we think about beauty. But these photos reminded me that in the everyday things there is an undeniable and radiating beauty that is humble, but no less present.  What ordinary things do you see beauty in? I see beauty in white flowers, the crumbs of a cake left over after it has been devoured, bookshelves, silk scarves... 

So, enough of me rambling about beauty, and more of the pictures! Here are some of them, but really check out the photostream, it is lovely. they are a quiet poem to Paris, and how they make me long to be there right now! These photos are probably not the best thing to be looking at when you're trying to focus on study... If only i had a time machine that could take me straight to january 2009. Until then, pictures it is. Feast your eyes! (because paris is an immoveable feast, right hemmingway?) 

 

[flickr april in paris]

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