Without Lifting A Finger

 Monet's Water Lilies @ L'Orangerie (2019). #rlswihart13 @rl_swihart #poetry #art #painting #readmorepoetry #monet #waterlilies #L'Orangerie #paris

The  Musée de l'Orangerie  is an art gallery of  impressionist  and  post-impressionist  paintings located in the west corner of the  Tuileries Gardens  next to the  Place de la Concorde  in  Paris . The museum is most famous as the permanent home of eight large  Water Lilies  murals by  Claude Monet , and also contains works by  Paul Cézanne ,  Henri Matisse ,  Amedeo Modigliani ,  Pablo Picasso ,  Pierre-Auguste Renoir ,  Henri Rousseau ,  Alfred Sisley ,  Chaim Soutine ,  Maurice Utrillo , and others. [Wikipedia]

They were much more liberal with pic-taking in Paris. Flash off, of course. We'd been to most of the "biggies" in Paris, but never the Orangerie. We passed our favorite Jefferson in Paris statue, tripped up the dusty path in the Tuileries, escaped Gollum with his ring, felt compassion for the owner of the pink phone leaning on its PopSocket, entered the oval fish bowls (Infinitiy has two rooms) and swam with the lilies along with everyone else. Wonderful! *

                                                                                            

I also include here a few photos I took the morning we left Vernon (i.e., the day after the bike ride). That morning I walked over the bridge on the Seine and shot a few more pics, covering some of the same ground we had on the bike ride to Giverny. The only major differences were: I had no bike and it was raining. Anyway . . .