LE BATEAU LAVOIR

For art connoisseurs Le Bateau Lavoir (the laundry boat) is a famous building in the Montmartre area of Paris. Jokingly named by poet Max Jacob who thought the shape and color of the building looked like the laundry boats docked along the Seine. Located on charming Place Emile Goudeau, the building was made up of small painting studios occupied in the very beginning of the 20th century by some of the most famous French painters such as Juan Gris, Amadeo Modigliani, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, André Derain, Maurice Utrillo and of course, Pablo Picasso. It is in the building that Picasso painted one of his most famous paintings, Les Demoiseles d'Avignon, considered by art historians as the beginning of his Cubist period.

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Photo taken by me during my visit to Paris in May, 2006.
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RAINY DAY IN PARIS

Any day in Paris, regardless of the weather, is wonderful. This photo was taken on a rainy day in Rue Xavier Privas, one of the narrow streets in the Latin Quarter. I love the Latin Quarter area with its narrow alley-like, pedestrian-only streets. Street-level has restaurants of every nationality, but look up to see the wrought-iron balconies covered with the red-geranium-filled flowers boxes.

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Photo taken by me during my visit to Paris in May, 2006.
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WELCOME! COME IN.

For this Travels in Watercolor I'm cheating...the only traveling I did was to board my daily suburban commuter train into downtown Chicago. However, the photo is one of my favorites that I've snapped during my walk to the office, and I think it makes a beautiful watercolor. It is the beautifully-ornate entrance gate to the Driehaus Museum which welcomes visitors to experience a Gilded Age era home just steps from the Magnificent Mile (aka Michigan Avenue).

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Photo taken by me in downtown Chicago during my walk to work in July, 2015.
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FOUNTAIN GARDEN

In the Enid A. Haupt Garden near the entrance to the National Museum of African Art in Washington D.C. is the Fountain Garden. Modeled after the Court of the Lions at Alhambra, the 13th-century Moorish palace and fortress in Granada, Spain, it is geometrically symmetrical and as with most Islamic gardens, includes a central fountain. A veil of cascading water streams down the back stone wall.

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Photo taken by me during my visit to Washington, DC in September, 2013.
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BRUGGE FLOWER SHOP

Why is it that Europe has the most enchanting shops with the most photographic store fronts? I came across this flower shop during my visit to Brugge. I just love all the colorful hanging baskets and the wrought-iron flowers stands.

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Photo taken by me during my visit to Brugge in May, 2010.
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BRUGGE CANAL REFLECTIONS

If you love the oldness of Europe (that's my word), then you have to visit Bruges, or Brugge as I like to call it. Brugge is the Flemish form of Bruges. Needless to say, Brugge is everything that the guidebooks tell you it is: beer, chocolate, unique architecture and postcard-pretty canals. This is one of my favorite photos from my visit: a picturesque canal, the water so still it reflected like a mirror, the houses with their burnt-orange tiled roofs reflecting on the water.

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Photo taken by me during my visit to Brugge in May, 2010.
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