I still like black. Dress mostly in black. (White hair, of course.) But I just got tired, this week, of how dark my blog theme was. So I put a nice photo from Paris behind the blog’s business area and I think it looks spiffier now. Also, this gave me a chance to customize the theme, which I do like, but eventually I had to “make it my own.”

The photo is of the Palais des Thermes de Cluny, (a Roman tepidarium and frigidarium) originally Roman baths, whose ruins are visible from the Rue St. Michel in the Latin Quarter of Paris. These baths were contained in perhaps the oldest brick building in Paris, built in the 2nd or 3rd century BCE and restored by Napoleon III. [Read more…]