Cite Photos

stairs up to the cite walls

Sunny and beautiful again here today.  It's a little colder than it was last week, but certainly not hat and glove weather. After much chore-doing here in the apartment, which included a big chunk of time writing, I took myself down the stairs for the newspaper and a walk this afternoon.  My kitchen is so spanking clean that I might just go out for dinner this evening, except that I just remembered that it's Monday and so many restaurants are closed on Mondays.  We'll see.

I found a new-to-me route up to the walled cite today.  I cropped out all of the cars, so I can pretend that I am looking at what people saw 800 years ago....

From the square in front of this church, looking up to the walls

 






I don't think this entrance is used any longer.

You just know that there were steps here, and thousands of feet passed over them.  I want nothing so much as a shovel and a trowel to start digging to find what those people left behind.

These severely pruned plane trees are starting to look normal to me.

I now see why they don't use this exit from the cite for the parade of torches, even though it is one of the most dramatic approaches/exits.  There's no pavement.

The flanks of the Cite

Peering around the wall, I could imagine myself a medieval spy, looking for any weakness in the walls of the Cite.

These stones didn't just fall into place of their own accord.  Human hands placed them. I wonder about the people who built this--what were their daily lives all about?  What did they eat? What did they wear?  Who did they love?  What made them happy? 

And notice that there are niches for notes, either from a spy, or for a true love.