"Remembering Paris"

What a trip! Kathy & Celeste and I visited Paris in 1993. The Musee D'Orsay, was my favorite place in the entire city. An old train station, converted to a modern, light-filled home for the works that I have always loved and I got to see in person. How lucky can a person be! After a day of looking through the place and after having a wonderful lunch in a chandelliered filled room painted with clouds and cherubs, we started to leave and then...we wondered, where were the VanGogh's? We must have missed them. They were housed upstairs and we had neglected to see an entire floor. We made our way upstairs, passing a Monet along the way, and walked into a room filled with such COLOR. It took my breath away. Now I know that no reproduction could contain such lush, striking color and this had been the great gift of VanGogh to the world. On my way out of the building I had to buy the catalog to remind me of all the sights there. My sister sent me the Notre Dame paperweight later and I included the photo of Kathy on the stairway as she passed the Monet friends/family seated in the garden. The rich satiny woven table cover is my all time favorite color.