Saints Etc
Paris is replete with street markets featuring pretty much everything, at low prices and often displayed lusciously: Heaps of roses, dozens of scissors fanned out in graduated sizes, a table of belts in the colors of the rainbow, huge boxes of varied mushrooms, tables of cheeses, scarves, seafood shrinkwrapped into little squares and a mountain of crabs still twitching.... if is stunning and overwhelming. And crowded... this is where the Parisians shop. It feels almost like a religious experience..... and this is why I started identifying the various saints, virgins and their offspring, and clergy of the markets.