French la Vie

 

Heavenly soles at the Louvre.

 

After all these years of living in France, the Louvre never ceases to amaze me. If I lived in the Louvre I would feel the same way it is a feast for the eyes.

 

 

 

 

Whenever I go to the Lourve I like to focus on one thing and take photos of just that one thing for example;

One time I took photos of frames,

another time signatures,

yet another time people taking photos of the Mona Lisa.

This time I took photos of feet in sandals: Heavenly Soles.

 

 

 

 

 

You might say I am what you call a self-entertained person.

Easy to please.

Happy wherever I am.

Well, most of the time that is.

 

 

 

Is your closet stuffed with shoes?

Are you a shoe horse kind of person?

My Husband could wear the same pair of shoes every day for the rest of his life. Matter of fact he could be happy in jeans, a sweatshirt, or tee-shirt and his faithful dogs as I call them, brown shoes, for eternity.

 

 

 

 

It would have been rather smart of me to note the artists of these paintings, the period, and the theme– or at least what room in the Louvre these snippets of paintings were from.

But no.

All I can say is that they are in the Louvre. I could there are plenty of sandaled feet in the Louvre.

But I can tell you this,

It is not every day you see a painting of a baby on the floor happily admiring a heavenly sole or a sandal.

 

 

 

 

There is nothing new under the sun.

Or is there?

Everything is new at least once.

And in the end…

 

 

 

You can take it with you.

At least this person did.

Red to boot, or sandals that is.

 

 

 

 

As they laced up their sandals to go for a run, they noticed something unusual, something hip, something that made them say,

"Why didn't I think of that?"

Such as blue suede shoes.

 

 

 

 

The dance of Spring, I feel it in the air.

The air in Provence has changed Spring is the scent.

It doesn't mean it won't be cold or that we will have blue skies here on out, but the air has shifted.

Buds form, the soil is waking up…

 

 

 

The next time I go to the Louvre maybe I'll focus on the ceiling.

The medallion above the crown, that appears upside down, has a woman dancing. She has sandals. well, let's just say she does because after zooming in on the ceiling to see if she had sandals, I realized so what if she doesn't.

I like to break my own rules.

 

 

 

Clever painting.

You have to be into the painting to imagine that sort of detail.

It isn't like there was a model, or that the painter took some photos, or had any more than his imagination to recall this sort of detail: Toes pointing down, heel up.

Brilliant way to show movement.

Brilliant masterpieces.

 

 

 

Mona Lisa,

The Winged Victory,

The Three Graces,

The Kiss of Eros and Psyche,

and Sandals, Heavenly Soles on the go.