Up until yesterday, I was spending most of my time in this building. It looks kind of like a spaceship or a futuristic prison, but it's the Archive de Paris, the municipal archive, where all sorts of documents related to city government and administration are held. Despite its very modernist appearance, on the walkway leading up to the building, there are lots of herbs and flowers (I've harvested rosemary there on the sly). My work there is done, and I don't plan to go back to this archive. But as I was leaving, I noticed these fruit trees which I hadn't seen before. I thought it was a striking contrast to have beautiful fruit growing outside a building which looks so stark and forbidding.
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