See what's just around the corner (or up the hill).

Here's a look at some places that are within a 10 to 20 minute walk from our apartment. (Or about as far as from our condo in Kenmore to the cement plant and Lake Forest Park, as Kevin points out. Hmm. Not quite the same.)  You may recognize some of the sites from films.

Although you can't really see the sign in the photo, the pink building with the yellow-topped fence, made famous by Picasso when he paintedit in 1905, became known as Le Lapin Agile after Andre Gill painted the sign for the proprietor that showed a rabbit leaping out of a saucepan. Thanks to locals calling the place "Le Lapin à Gill" (Gill's Rabbit), it eventually became Le Lapin Agile (The Agile Rabbit.)

The vineyard pictured is the first vineyard planted in Montmartre. It's still in operation today.

We had a pique-nique in the shadow of Sacre Coeur.  (If you ever visit, go all the way around to the back and down a side street to a charming little park. The basilica may be crowded, but you'll find peace there.)

La Moulin de la Galette. Toulouse-Laturec, Van Gogh, and Renoir all painted scenes of this site.

Many artists and writers lived at Le Bateau-Lavoir. Most of the building burned down in 1970, but the facade was saved, and it has been rebuilt. 

Abbesses metro station is one of only two of the original glass-covered metro entrances 

left in Paris.

The Love Wall in Montmartre has "I love you," written in 250 languages.

Montmartre also features a sculpture called "The Man Who Could Walk Through Walls," based on a charming story of  a man who discovered he could easily pass through walls without trouble. Originally, he sought a doctor's help, and the doctor gave him some pills for the conditon. But the man did not take them, and a year went by. He turned to a life of crime, using his talent to burgle and rob. But then, he fell in love with a married woman.  He passed un-noticed through her bedroom wall. One night he had a headache and found some pills he had with him. He took them, and his headache disappeared, but as he was leaving his lover, he suddenly became trapped in the wall. The pills, of course, were the ones  he had been given by his doctor the year before.

In my neighborhood at home, there are posters of lost dogs and cats. In Montmartre, there is a poster for a lost unicorn. The poster says she is a large female unicorn, white with a large horn, last seen at the Concorde entrance of the Garden of the Tuileries.  I will have to look for her there! There is a reward.