Picture Perfect ~ Opened or Closed

Picture Perfect: Opened or Closed

(I put a fence around the sky)

Open sky closed by buildings [photo taken in Prague- Aug 2012]

The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky,
No higher than the soul is high.
[Edna St. Vincent Millay]

Images and Words #201 ~ Stairs ~

Images & Words: Stairs

(The Convent)

Photo taken near Bolzano, Italy [Mar 2013]

Picture Perfect ~ ColourSplash!

Picture Perfect: Flower Girl

Photo taken in Milan - Jul 2012

I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
[Edna St. Vincent Millay]

Picture Perfect ~ Six ~ Winter Wonderland

Picture Perfect #6: Winter is White

Photo taken somewhere over the Alps - Jan 2011

Just over there the white of the snow is merging with the white of the moon.

Picture Perfect ~ Five ~ Under Construction

Picture Perfect #5: Under Construction

Photo taken in Bologna- Sep 2012

Bologna had many towers in the past (as many Italian cities in the Middle Age)  but today there are only the two shown in this pictures.

The right one - named Torre degli Asinelli - is under re-construction.
It is 97 meters high and it is leaning on a side though not as much as the celebrated Pisa Tower.

Images & Words #196 - Statues

Images & Words with a Statue

(A walk with James Joyce)

Photo taken in Trieste, Aug 2008

It was in Trieste, in 1915, that James Joyce began to write Ulysses,

the 24-hour epic of Leopold Bloom.

Picture Perfect ~ Four ~ Nostalgic

Picture Perfect #4: Nostalgic

Photo taken in Arezzo - Jan 2013

Pappa col pomodoro (tomato soup) was a poor dish meant to use old bread, now you can find it in many nice and trendy restaurants as the dish of Tuscan tradition.

A nostalgic wish to have such meals like 50 years ago. Nostalgia with taste!