Saturday Photo Hunt: sweet

Children in a Filipino village

I took this photo some thirty years ago during a summer trip to the Philippines.
More photos of that year’s trip through HongKong, the Philippines and Thailand here

I also considered the following photos for the theme

 

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Re-direction

Just to let you know that whatever link you use to get back here at Blogging in Paris, it’ll bring you to http://blogginginparis.com.
I am indeed on WordPress.com as I said before, but I asked for a re-direction to my domain name.
The only problem you may have is if you use an RSS Reader like BlogLines or GoogleReader, because you subscribed to an RSS where my blog was hosted before. In which case you’ll have to delete the previous subscription and use a new one, or simply add http://blogginginparis.com to your favorites.
Thanks to Judy from Imagine what I am leaving out for alerting me about the problem.

If you have no idea what I am talking about, just ignore this post, it just means you haven’t encountered any problems getting here.

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An unusual monument

Our day at Cimetière du Père-Lachaise last week afforded quite unusual views.

I found this grave particularly moving

Nursing her child

Here are some details
 

 

>> On a totally different note, if you want to get a good laugh, go to my French blog where you’ll find a video of Bill Maher about France and the French.
I put it on the French blog because it has French subtitles.

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Wednesday Window: Oscar Wilde at Père Lachaise Cemetery

I haven’t been able to put my banner up on WordPress.com, and I am not a patient woman so I’ll try again another day.

Exceptionally, I am opening my Wednesday Window on Thursday. A little longer and it was Friday!
And exceptionally, it’ll open on several photos.
Last week, I visited Père Lachaise cemetery with Elly and Leo.
Leo was keen on seeing the monument erected to the memory of Oscar Wilde there. I had never seen it. You could believe that the cemetery of Père Lachaise is down under, instead of just being on the other side of Paris. It doesn’t take all that long to go, but there it is! I’m lazy.
With friends, it’s always easier.
Anyway, it took us quite a while to get to Oscar Wilde’s monument, but we finally made it. Here it is.

The monument is covered with graffiti of all kinds, some in lipstick, and the graffitti grow faster than the cemetery people can clean them.
As Elly put it:

If Oscar Wilde could see this, he’d just be delighted!

Here’s some of the stuff that can be seen on the monument.

From Wikipedia

Wilde was buried in the Cimetière de Bagneux outside Paris but was later moved to Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. His tomb in Père Lachaise was designed by sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, at the request of Robert Ross, who also asked for a small compartment to be made for his own ashes. Ross’s ashes were transferred to the tomb in 1950. The numerous spots on it are lipstick traces from admirers.
The modernist angel depicted as a relief on the tomb was originally complete with male genitals. They were broken off as obscene and kept as a paperweight by a succession of Père Lachaise Cemetery keepers. Their current whereabouts are unknown. In the summer of 2000, intermedia artist Leon Johnson performed a 40 minute ceremony entitled Re-membering Wilde in which a commissioned silver prosthesis was installed to replace the vandalised genitals.

and finally a more classical homage with those two roses.

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One year today…

… that Michelle from MandarinDesign left us.
I often think of her and miss her.

Meg, I wish you were still here with your love of birds, flowers and the way you had to help people along.

Remembering Meg

In Memory.
This Blog was
touched by
Mandarin meg

Thanks, Diane, for the box.

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