Paris D’Amour

Mom and I concluded our 2nd annual Mama-Den Summer Euro trip last week.  We’ve decided to make it a tradition to set aside a week or two each year to spend time together on this side of the world.  After the ridiculousness of last year’s trip, we realize just how good for the soul a raucous, unsupervised mother-daughter escapade can be.

This year, we visited Holland, Belgium and France.  And even though we’ve been to Paris many times before, it was my favourite stop.  The city is just stunningly beautiful.  The afternoon we arrived was warm, sunny and perfect.  I couldn’t get over the fairytale feeling of walking, living, eating in such gorgeous surroundings.  Do people really live in such a fairytale setting?!

The city of love is a hard one to photograph.  After an hour walking the streets, beauty numbs the senses.  It’s like walking into a candy shop of all the best sweets in the world and not being able to decide what to purchase.  Paris is visually overwhelming.

But what I loved about our time there together was just that, it was TIME.  We didn’t run around trying to photograph sites.  We just walked, ate, talked and shopped.  Rinse and repeat.  It was slow, relaxed and lazy, just the kind of time that Mum and I needed with each other.

Between the crepes and jewelry stores, I did manage to snap a few photographs here and there.  It takes little effort to capture beauty in a city like this.  It’s everywhere.