It’s a
beautiful Sunday in Houston and it’s sunny… Makes me want to walk out the door and go to the flower market on the
Ile de la Cite. Right between the
Palais de Justice and Notre-Dame. And the birds would be chirping because there’s also a bird market there every Sunday. Alas, I’ll have to be happy with a walk around Houston Memorial Park’s three-mile track…
PS – The
Ile de la Cite is the birthplace of
Paris, where the Parisii tribe lived and where the Romans camped out when they conquered them in 52 AD. The city was first named
Lutecia from the Latin word meaning “mud,” probably because it was a mound of dirt soaked with waters from the Seine. Three medieval buildings still remain on the
Ile de la Cite: The
Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris (built from 1163); King Louis IX’s
Sainte-Chapelle (1245), built as a reliquary to house the relics of the Crown of Thorns and a piece of the True Cross, enclosed within the
Palais de Justice; and the
Conciergerie prison (2/27/07 post), where Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette awaited execution in 1793.
It’s a beautiful Sunday in Houston and it’s sunny… Makes me want to walk out the door and go to the flower market on the Ile de la Cite. Right between the Palais de Justice and Notre-Dame. And the birds would be chirping because there’s also a bird market there every Sunday. Alas, I’ll have to be happy with a walk around Houston Memorial Park’s three-mile track…
