How You Know You're in Paris

This may look like a painting but it's actually a photo I took of a small wooden staircase that I saw in the window of an antique shop in the Rive Gauche area in Paris. I just think it's so cool, it could be a motif from a Dali painting (if he had been obsessed with staircases instead of, uh, other things).

Speaking of the Surrealists, I saw this on a wall between some shops on my way to the zoo at the Museum of Natural History yesterday and it reminded me of a page out of the Andre Breton's Surrealist Manifesto: 

This is why I freaking love Paris.