This is a seri­ous ice cream store – a land­mark of my youth. They are not daunt­ed by the sea­son; they sell ice cream through the most frigid of months. This shot is from storm footage on CNN.

Some­how when I saw the images in the deep of win­ter it was­n’t the right time to post it. But now, with July rack­ing up anoth­er week of 90+ degree days it seemed right. A wel­come dreamy relief of flakes drift­ing down eat­ting ice cream. That will be the thought I hold onto for the remain­der of these dog days.

I remem­ber many a car trip to the place I ordered a sug­ar cone or maybe a cup with one scoop of but­tered almond and anoth­er of cof­fee ice cream. My dad got me hooked on cof­feee ice cream. We would both order it and sit in the car and savor each spoon­ful as a few oth­er brave souls hoped out of their cars wrapped in scarves and mittens.

This is one of the most inspir­ing foun­tains I’ve had the pleaseure to vis­it. It is out­side the Pom­pi­deu. The organ­ic shapes and col­or­ful spin­ning objects can keep you in a trance for hours. I took this pho­to years ago and redis­cov­ered it while doing some scan­ning of images last week.

I think about this foun­tain often recall­ing the trails of water so flu­id against the geo­met­ric steel of the Beaubourg. I had been look­ing for­ward to expe­ri­ence the cool spray­ing waters the last time I vis­it­ed. But, the foun­tain was under ren­o­va­tion and Paris was too hot. I look for­ward to my next visit.

I’m work­ing on a new draw­ing inspired by the memory.

If you’ve nev­er been there point your brows­er at:

http://www.cnac-gp.fr/Pompidou/Accueil.nsf/tunnel?OpenForm

also check out the web­cams.

Best of all take a trip to Paris.

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