July 30 -- The Australian boat party

Quote of the day...
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential." -- Winston Churchill

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8RSEdJAzOQ

July 29 -- St-Gervais-et-St-Protais Church and a pillow of Barry

Quote of the day...
"The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common heroic." -- Ralph Waldo Ermerson

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhApYxZisBI

July 28 -- The Château de Chantilly and the view from a train ride

Quote (or passage, rather) of the day...
"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day." -- "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens (end of chapter 9)

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpL0xVIYbnU

July 27 -- Dancing the dusk away

Quote of the day...
"The same quality which renders him independent of each of his fellow citizens, taken severely, exposes him alone and unprotected to influence of the greater number." -- Alexis de Tocqueville about Americans

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8OL261RT-E&feature=related

July 26 -- Paris Plages (or the beach resort in Paris)

Quote of the day...
"I have a very good friend...cannot remember his name." -- Roger Sterling on "Mad Men"

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2OLBhVua5c

July 25 -- An outdoor screening of "The Graduate" etc.

Quote of the day...
"Mr. Braddock: Ben, this whole idea sounds pretty half-baked.
Benjamin: Oh, it's not. It's completely baked." -- dialogue from "The Graduate"

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atnpanRnmCM&feature=related

July 24 -- A day of picnics

Quote of the day...
"The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong , but to those who see it coming and jump aside." -- Hunter S. Thompson in "The Rum Diary"

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NkBFwGvh2I

July 23 -- An arch, a metro stop and a sunset

Quote of the day...
"I came home and she lifted up her wings/I guess that this must be place." -- David Byrne

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTiFNQBRwwU

July 22 -- Images from a random Thursday in Paris

Quote of the day...
"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon." -- Henry Kissinger as quoted in the Financial Times

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkVGCWJoAXA

July 21 -- An impressionistic sunset and an art gallery

Quote of the day...
"'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough." -- from the film "Chinatown"

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY_NQZyBc3g

July 20 -- View of the Samaritaine

Quote of the day...
"We're gonna need a bigger boat." -- Jaws

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thls_tMuFkc

July 19 -- Plastic flower, old building

Quote of the day...
"Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence." -- Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window"

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XC2mqcMMGQ&feature=channel

July 18 -- Charlemagne and Notre Dame

Quote of the day..
"Dark clouds may hang over me sometimes, but I'll work it out. Well, look up at the sky." -- Dave Matthews

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpJUrt0O7uY

July 17 -- The track and then the club

Quote of the day...
"They will habitually prefer the useful to beautiful, and they will require that the beautiful should be useful." -- Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville writing about Americans.

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubrdIp_3WKQ

July 16 -- St. Paul and then a taxi ride

Quote of the day...
"Just like good times create bad habits, serious crisis leave only battle-hardened survivors." -- "The Emerging Markets Century" by Antoine Van Agtmael

And your song song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl8cDaj1BLU

July 15 -- My nephews could do better than this

Quote of the day...
"The wisdom of the wise man consists herein, that he does not judge (others); he lets them judge themselves and merely reads and records their own verdict." Ralph Waldo Emerson

And your song of the day..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vptfm9D6owo

July 14 -- Happy France Day

Quote of the day...
"There are two kinds of women in the world. Those who take the strength out of a man and those who put it back." -- Rudyard Kipling, writing in "Kim"

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSWZiDodnEY