The penguins and the sealions are quite content in the rain. The audience, as you saw yesterday, wasn't.
'Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.' ~ John Betjeman
Do you remember the 'Funny Mirrors' when you were a child? These are in the Jardin Biovès.
Subtle Christmas lights on Rue Longue in the Old Town.
A light from the Christmas Market seems to hover above the campanile.
These kids were having the best fun and their parents were able to sit in comfort and watch.
Christmas decorations appear to float over the port of Menton, but as you see in the smaller photo they actually hang over the street above.
Here's how it works. Place child in deflated bubble, fill with air - and she's off and floating...
It's Christmas which means all sorts of fun for children. In the Jardin Bioves you'll find these large inflatable balls that float and move on water. This adorable child looks somewhat bemused.
I'm not sure I'd want to see my dear departed's death mask. Would you?
Looks good enough to eat, doesn't it? But it's not... These cakes are for sale in a flower shop!
After a lot of rain, the seafront in the area where Menton joins Roquebrune-Cap-Martin is often closed.
How could one not be inspired in a place like this?
'Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe' ~ Philip Guston
About six weeks ago I enrolled in a photography class at L'Ecole Municipale des Arts Plastiques de Menton and the other day we were given the chance to attend a sculpture life class and photograph the model. Of course I'm not going to show you photos of a nude lady. Sorry! She was all woman and beautiful but it was just as fascinating to photograph the sculpture students as they re-created her out of clay.
