Sacre Cœur, Saucisson & Sunshine

I went to the Sacre Cœur the other Sunday, as it was a beautiful clear sunny day:

There are NO problems that I can see with the sparrow population here in Paris and I love that:

This was the queue for Monet when I came out the other night:

I read the day after that Jodie Foster went that night!

Saturday Mathilde and I went to St Michel and found a Basque country shop that sold AWARD winning produce! We walked in and the man started slicing up saucisson for us to try and then handed us some kind of grenadine before going off to find another saucisson for us to try... I was in love. We ended up getting a cornet of the stuff! I love their style.

Sunday was once again sunny and glorious and so I took myself back off to the Bois de Boulogne (where I went in the summer when it was bakingly hot - what a difference!) As I came out I looked one way up the road and could see La Defense...

And the other, L'Arc de Triomphe!
I loved the low wintry sun:

I found the jardin d'acclimatation and within it, a farm!

Sheep and baby goats!

Grandad/other horticulturally knowledgable person, what are these?

They are pinky-purple and I like them very much! Growing in a veg/herb patch

At first I looked in this cage and only saw sparrows until this chap popped out from behind his hiding post - how did I miss him?!!

And this lovely couple: (the rooster posed for ages for me!)

A white peacock was just casually strolling about!

This bird was also incredible:

I liked how soft these ducks looked:

These ones are clearly highly fashionable young Parisian ducks, hot off the catwalk from fashion week, complete with stylish sideways fluffy hats:

Iced over boating lake: (truly it is FREEZING here!!)

Lovely fresh green colour in amidst all the dull wintry browns:

I liked the pictures on the side of the boating house:

Right next to the deer enclosure!! Poor deer :(

Llama and DONKEY DONKEY DONKEY!!! :D :D :D

I love Donkey.

RABBITS!! (But not for strokesies)

Oh Mummy look!!!

Fish blocked in an icy pond at the bottom, cows on a muddy hill and blue sky!

Further on into the woods and I found my lake again:

Then I went in search of the huuuuge lake on the map but only found muddy paths with bare trees and eerily bright blue stream (I think it was chalk at the bottom or something - again someone more knowledgeable can educate me!)

The most sky I've seen in SO long!!!

After a couple of hours of muddy woods I just turned to go home and suddenly came out on the lake!!

There was a tree with a long branch at elbow/shoulder height stretching across the path with lots of names carved into it:

Ah! I felt so much better after this!