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It's been a while since I did a little Paris blogging. This was the view from my walk home last night from a bar in the Marais neighborhood of Paris. Click the image to see a larger version. (I just got an update-upgrade to my panoramic software - I think it's improved significantly. Have tried Photoshop's newest version of photomerge in CS3, don't love it. Side-by-side I think PTGui, my software, does better.)

And this was the view after dinner tonight near the Paris Opera.



Mom arrives tomorrow morning. I get to get up at 6:20am, which, well, let's just say that I don't usually start blogging till 10am, so that should give you some idea of my usual wake-up time. Mom and I are recreating her trip of 23 years ago when she visited me during my junior year abroad in Paris. Should be interesting :-)