Marché aux Fleurs et aux Oiseaux

The Flower Market

(and sometimes a bird market)

The Flower Market is open daily 

but they only bring out the birds on Sunday.

As you can see from this rainy day photo, 

the birds had all flown away (kidding).

People come from all over Paris and surrounding areas to buy

all imaginable types of birds from canaries and finches 

to roosters and chickens.

Marché aux Fleurs

Place Louis-Lépine

75004, Paris

(Merci beaucoup, BC, for the reminder) 

Île de la Cité - les serveurs

Les Serveurs

Dressed perfectly for the job, 

waiters are perhaps one of my favorite subjects in Paris

I did not exactly ask for permission 

but I pointed to my camera 

and tilted my head posing the unspoken question.  

With a slight nod, permission was given.

Île de la Cité

75004, Paris

Marché aux Oiseaux - Place Louis Lépine

Marché aux Fleurs

(Marché aux Oiseaux)

On Sundays the Marché aux Fleurs becomes the Marché aux Oiseaux (Bird Market) 

with a chatty selection of birds, from the ordinary to the rare.   You may find hens, chickens, roosters, rabbits, fish, Guinea pigs.  

If you are looking for color, the birds will oblige your request.

 

Marché aux Fleurs
Place Louis Lépine
Île de la Cité
75004, Paris

Les lanternes

In the Marché aux Fleurs I found this collection of lanterns

suspended from the greenhouse roof. 

I dreamed that I had the two in front for large candles on my Paris terrace. 

Un aperitif?

Marché aux Fleurs
Place Louis Lepine
Île de la Cité
75004, Paris