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Approaching the Contrescarpe from the rear of the Pantheon (see yesterday's submission) one cannot escape seeing this decoration of the otherwise blank gable-end of the building.
Is blue an apt colour for a tree? Maybe not, but it is certainly an arresting image. The poem alongside is not accessible to me in all its subtlety but I think I recognise that it enjoins the passer-by to value the trees that he may have in his street and rejoice in the life-force they engender and support.
'Hear! hear!' I cry.
I do wish, however, that the trees were not pollarded, as is the blue tree and as are many in the avenues of Paris, but allowed to flourish in their natural form.

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