Just stuff (again)

Yesterday I went out of my way to go to a shop (which, by the way, was closed, wasting my time) and I crossed this:

(didn't notice that my finger was blocking the lens a little...)

In Angoulême there are a lot of painted walls (or murs peints as they call it, it means exactly the same thing but somehow it sounds better lol) and we see them quite often. I found out pretty early that Lyon had a lot of them as well, but somehow we don't come across them so often. Maybe it's because Lyon's too big... Anyway, I don't come along this road often so I've seen it before but forgotten about it :P

Here's another photo without the shrubbery blocking it:

Please note that there is a part of the wall jutting out, and it is painted as a pile of boxes/crates being pushed by a man!

I'm not sure which photo is nicer, or gives a better optical illusion... I think I should have taken a photo from further away, so that the building on which it's painted isn't seen so clearly. But I thought that it would turn out too small on the photo...too bad, I'll have to remember to try it next time.

Along another road, I passed a florist and noticed that there was "hibiscus" on its "flowers of the day" chalkboard outside its door. So I looked around for the hibiscus, but didn't see any (I didn't want to go into the shop since I wasn't going to buy anything) But what I did see was this:

and this:

(Anyone know the name of this flower?)

I wonder whether they're considered seasonal flowers around here...maybe they're sold just to put in a house as decoration and thrown away in winter when they droop? (I'm supposing that they will droop...but then I don't really know!)

Anyway...today I made pain perdu (French French toast, so to speak :P) Whenever I buy a baguette (the famous French loaf) I will surely have some left over because it's so long, and that it loses it's fluffiness very quickly (before the next day) So instead of forcing myself to eat half-stale bread the next day, I freeze it to make French toast another day. (I've learnt that you should either freeze it or cut it up before it gets too hard, 'cos once it's rock-hard there is no way you can cut it into nice slices) When there's too much for breakfast, I'll usually heat the rest up in the microwave for lunch (or just do brunch :P), but today somehow I didn't feel like eating plain French toast again, so I did a little "improvising" (if you can call it that)...and ta-dah!

(For the curious: I added a prawn, a bit of olive oil and parsley on each toast.)

It wasn't bad...but it was a little weird... maybe plain bread would be better :P