HABERDASHERY
On Friday we decided to visit the stores near the Louvre that sell yarn and buttons and hats. These were Kathe’s favorite stores when we came to Paris for a week in 2013 on our delayed honeymoon on our 50th wedding anniversary. We stayed in the same Tim hotel where I spent my first three days on this trip and spent much of our time in La Droguerie, the knitting store that we visited yesterday, as well as clothing stores. So this time Susie see walked, took the bus, and walked from Montmartre to Ultramod where there are beautiful exotic hats in the window. It was closed through lack of help, but the sister store across the street, Mercerie, was open. Both stores are magical with all kinds of ribbons and buttons and yarn with Japanese patrons. After a while there, while Susie looked around and I took photographs, we walked on. We happened on an exhibit at a school for architecture and then another one of the paintings of George Fourrier who traveled to Morocco and central Africa. We stopped at a cafe for an hour and then walked on to La Droguerie by way of the Palais Royale gardens. The colors of La Droguerie are so intense. And then walking on we saw a door to a huge church open and inside were the stained glass windows that we couldn’t see at St. Chapelle and then the organ began to play and filled the church. And then exhausted we took the Metro back to our apartment.
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 