Summer time means lengthy days and heat climate. Good hanging-in-the-park season. We did a lot of that, from picnicking open air effectively previous 10 pm as a result of it was nonetheless mild, to all the time having a ebook in our backpacks so we may lounge in a park and browse anytime within the day.

Listed here are some park sketches from Paris with very glad reminiscences hooked up.

Sketched from an limitless inexperienced strip that goes all the best way to Dôme des Invalides. The youngsters and I, and a field of pastries, spent a day there. And you’ll see we weren’t the one ones who thought it a good suggestion.

There’s something so pretty about the truth that the wood sailboats you lease to sail on the duck pond at Luxembourg Gardens don’t have any batteries or distant management and all you get is an extended keep on with redirect them after they attain the pond’s edge.

Apparently, Sq. du Temple – Elie Wiesel is particular as a result of it’s modeled after an English backyard. I didn’t discover that. Actually, I used to be struck by how classically Parisian this scene seemed: individuals studying within the park with Haussmannian rooftops (extra on these in a future put up) peeking out above the treeline.

Not a park, however the Père Lachaise Cemetery was a beautiful, serene place to spend a day. I noticed at the least three different individuals sketching there (in addition to my niece, my daughter, and me!)

Maison Buffon isn’t a park both, however it’s contained in the Jardin des Plantes and has a beautiful instructional backyard beside it. I sketched it whereas my children visited the Pure Historical past Museum, Anthropology Museum, and Gem and Mineral Museums close by.

I’ve so many extra park sketches that I’ll simply have to separate them up into two posts. Extra park sketches coming quickly.

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That is the second put up in my “Summer time Travels” sequence.
The primary one, a flip by of considered one of my sketchbooks, is right here.