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Passegiata 28 Jun 2013 | 09:19 pm
One special pleasure in traveling in Italy is taking a stroll in the evening ("passegiata") with the rest of the populus. And among the many pleasures of passegiata is seeing things you don't see duri...
Alive, Dead, or Fake 1 Jun 2013 | 10:27 am
Orvieto Siena Urbino Arezzo Borgo Grappa
Playground 18 May 2013 | 08:43 am
Here's my playful take on this week's Sepia Saturday "upside down, the wrong way up, and all over the place" theme. Brighton, 2005 Citta della Domenica, Tuscany,2007 Anghiari, Tuscany, 2007 Eye, N...
Cats of Orvieto 4 May 2013 | 09:26 pm
Busy getting our house ready to sell, just time enough for a quick post: A small sampling of the feline multitudes in Orvieto, Italy.
Swanning about 19 Apr 2013 | 09:43 am
This week's Sepia Saturday features a rather ferocious swan encountered while puttering up the canal at Skipton, Yorkshire (2005). Out for a swim We were fine until we got within hailing distance of...
Parade 12 Apr 2013 | 09:13 pm
Another triple meme entry this week! The splendor of parades for me is just as much, if not more, about the spectators as the participants. I'm always thinking about, say, the crowd scenes and charac...
Dabbling in the Past 4 Apr 2013 | 10:38 pm
Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire 2005 The Ruin An fragment of an Old English poem from the Exeter Book - this transcription taken from the Labyrinth. For a stab at a translation, see the page of Siân Echard, ...
Coffee 28 Mar 2013 | 03:53 am
Café life — or in this case, caffè life. Here's the corner bar in San Giustino (Valtiberina), Umbria, where we lived for three months a few winters ago. Valtiberina indicates that it's in the valley ...
Monumental 22 Mar 2013 | 10:43 pm
Here's a selection of sticky-uppy things to fit with this week's Sepia Saturday theme. In the summer of 2005 I escorted my son and a friend to England for a few weeks. We were staying in Oakworth - a...
Black and White Baltics 2 Feb 2013 | 10:11 am
For Weekend in Black and White, I offer a shy handful of shots from the Baltics last summer. Surreal hallway at Jaunmokupils, Latvia On Harmony Street, Tukums, Latvia From the train, near Vilnius, ...
