Tag: Italy
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Celebrating 100 Posts! Italy Off the Beaten Path ~ San Galgano and the Sword in the Stone
One hundred posts! How can it be?! Thank you for reading, for visiting, for commenting, for following! One of the motivations for starting the blog was to provide an outlet for reminiscing about and preserving some of my favorite memories of a special trip we had to Italy the previous summer. To celebrate the 100th post,…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond
Hey, come closer! No, closer! That’s it, right up to the door. No, even closer. Yes, bend down and put your eye right up to the keyhole, as if you were looking through a telescope. Can you see what is beyond these imposing doors now? Amazing, isn’t it?! This is the view one sees when looking beyond…
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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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Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette
“Silhouette” is the Weekly Photo Challenge issued by WordPress this week, with the following explanation: The proper definition of a silhouette is “the outline of a body viewed as circumscribing a mass.” In photography, often we achieve that effect by putting light behind the object whose silhouette we want to capture, effectively darkening out the…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitary
The Solitary Cypress This lone cypress tree compelled me to find a spot to stop the car and pull out the camera as we drove through the Val d’Orcia region of Tuscany last summer. A couple of other trees, just skeletal trunks and branches nearby, may have once kept it company, but now only the solitary cypress…
Travel. Garden. Eat. 