paris pride 2013

spent my saturday at pride - had a wonderful time, as always, and took way too many photos.  right now is a great time to celebrate as same sex marriage has recently passed in france!

this year, i watched at the beginning and then watched at the end... 

you can check out the all the photos {here}

and if that is not enough for you, take a look at {2011} & {2012} posts!

fyi: for your post soundtrack needs, besides {daft punk}, {this song} was pretty popular!

when not in paris, normandie.

these photos are just from that iphone these kids are playin' with these days.

check out real photos {here}

paris pride 2012

pride, as always, was filled with: 

rainbows and free condoms!

 lots of sexy 'sailors'!

this guy!

dancin' and drums!

this by far was the best float EVER.

but i'm not going to lie, i had much more fun last year.... 

it was still great though; so much positive feelings of acceptance and happiness.

you can see more photos of the day {here} and last years post {here}. 

mother mother

last saturday i had the opportunity to see my favorite band, mother mother,  play live for the second time.  only this time it seems they are getting a bit more popular (after 3 cds, i guess thats what happens) so i wasn't able to get a photo with them.

(like i did last time)

...and just incase you weren't there to share the experience, i found some youtube videos of the concert.

all and all it was a great night, {here} is a link to the other photos i took (the other bands put on great sets too).
ps. i want the base players bangs!

paris pride 2011

i am so lucky that where i live in paris, many parades (and protests) start right down the block from me.  husband and i got up a bit early to head to a {vide grenier} and that is when i noticed the beginning of the parade lining up.  of course right after lunch, i ran out the street to take pictures and join in on the fun!

when i saw the super heros, i got excited and asked to take their picture... just as they started posing, the guy in the white pushed them out and told them they had to get somewhere.  'batman' surprised, laughed and gave me this sweet 'sorry but can't help it' smile.  

different ways to wear the flag.

throughout the whole parade, everyone just joined in on floats they liked.  after it was over, the crowd just disappeared down the street.  so this was left.  so much colorful trash.  the paris street cleaners followed close behind and it was clean within a half hour.  almost like the parade was never there. wow.

please check out more photos {here}

vacation overload

{alright, this should be the last post about my recent normandy adventure}

there is nothing more exhilarating than to 'look up' and notice how small we all really are...

check out the ol' flickr here.  most of those photos of that guy i'm sometimes seen with and refer to as my husband were taken by my mother.

{gotta to give her credit!}

père lachaise cemetery

the weather here has been really depressing and rainy for about two weeks.  the perfect weather walk to around the cemetery.  i'll have to go back though because half way through my good camera ran out of batteries and i didn't see as much as i would have liked to...

yes, those are my initials.

for more cemetery photos click here.