Field of wild flowers

Peacock butterflies

Tilia - linden - lime tree blossom

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There are several huge lime trees around Allexton Church - a sweet scented flower, that I remember drinking in an infusion - tilleul.  Proust dipped his memory-stimulating madeleine in a tisane of lime flowers, and the tree is celebrated in Wilhelm Müller's Winterreise poem "Der Lindenbaum" set to music by Franz Schubert.

Plants and cobwebs

Paris Day 6 - 15 June 2013

Paris Day 5 - 14 June 2013

88 of these Art Nouveau Metro entrances, designed by Hector Guimard,  survive in Paris.  When they first appeared in the early 1900s some people thought they looked liked red-eyed insects

traffic in the rue de Rivoli

Notre Dame de Paris