Tag: Florence

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern

  While climbing Giotto’s Bell Tower (Campanile di Giotto) in Florence, Italy, I could appreciate the patterns covering the Duomo as I peeked through the windows of the winding stone stairwell. Climbing the 414 steps of the Tower provides such an incredible overview of Florence’s many patterns — from the red-tiled rooftops to the colorful marble […]

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  05/11/2013

  Travel

  Campanile di Giotto, Duomo, Florence, Giotto’s Tower, Italy, pattern, postaday, red-tile roofs, stairs, weekly photo challenge

• It’s All About the Little Things

  Which parent hasn’t searched the world over and then paid through the nose for the elusive toy that darling Jimmy whispered into Santa’s ear was the “one” special present he wanted this year?  (I confess, for me, it was a hard-to-get Lego kit that I ended up ordering online and paying almost as much in […]

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  12/06/2012

  Gratitude, Life, Quotes, Travel

  Albert Einstein, Christmas, experiences, family, Florence, gelato, gift-giving, gypsy, holidays, Italy, Jackalope, little things, memories, moments, presents, Robert Brault, Santa, Susan B. Anthony, vacations, Wyoming

• 20 Years of Food and Friendship

  The header photo on the home page of my blog is a scene of the Chianti countryside from the drive back to Siena from Panzano.  To me, it embodies a classic Tuscan view — the rolling hills, the grapevines, the olive trees, the cluster of old buildings comprising a little hill town.  It also reminds me […]

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  09/09/2012

  Eat, Travel

  dinner club, Florence, food, friendship, Italy, Panzano, Siena, Tuscany, villa, wine