Another Quiet Saturday 11-28-15

Deb is still really tired today and wanted to stay in, but I was getting a bit stir crazy so I decided to go to another brocante down in the 14th arr. near Place d'Italie.  It lies down in the southeast part of the city.  The brocante was located at the base of Rue de Mouffetard, a very popular tourist street during the summer filled with small merchants of every sort, clothing, shoes, cheese, wine, small cafes, etc. It is still popular with the residents as well because there are always interesting things to see.
The brocante was the same way, lots of interesting things to see, always a variety of offerings.  This market was larger than the ones I've been going to lately so that was nice.  I found a cute watercolor that had it all, barges on the Seine, a steam powered loading crane, the Parisian quai, but unfortunately it was quite water-stained and I'm sure it would have cost a multiple of the painting itself to have it cleaned, so no sale.  I've gotten quite focused on finding something "barge" related ever since my trip to the barge museum at Conflans-St. Honorine last weekend.  We have a small half-bath in Denver which contains a virtual gallery of small works that represent locations where we have visited in the past and an artwork on barges would be perfect.
In 1977 on our first visit to London, literally on our first night in the city I helped push a car out of traffic along the Thames embankment near Chelsea.  The man with whom I worked was living on a houseboat in the Thames that had been converted from an old barge, The Mallard.  So my attachment to them goes back a number of years, it was a magical evening as an introduction to England.
So really no luck, but as ever with this street market habit the hunting is at least as much fun as the actual finding.  And nothing is, as yet, so serious that a person would question their sanity for buying. Another note, those large paintings I referred to last week as having been purchased at Drouot and then being offered two days later, were at this temporary market this week.
Christmas decorations are going up all around town now.