I made a lot of photographs in 6 weeks. A reasonable amount are pretty good. In editing I came across something I found to be a bit jarring. There are 2 graffiti images which have references to 9/11. I don’t know what true comment it makes. Look at the “Just Do It” and Nike logo… […]

Made Mantova yesterday. Spent some time with our surrogate son, Giorgo Rossini, his wife, Sara, and their two children, and his mom, dad and sister Christina. Went to see Giorgio and Sara’s new house which should be ready to move into in about 2 months. Mantova is an old city. Since everyone was at work […]

At the conclusion of my first visit here in 1985 I realized Florence was likely to become my favorite place on earth. Through the years, though, we never spent the night, never saw the morning sun on the Arno and were always up against the train schedule to get home. This time we stayed 4 […]

The second exit refers to the turn-by-turn directions we get from our phones when we’re traveling from place to place and encounter a round-about. That almost always means, go straight. We’ve seen new places this trip and had some wonderful meals with family and friends. What a great bunch. Went to a Robert Doisneau photography […]

Pescia is a neat little place. I wish it were doing better, being worried that there are so many empty store fronts. We walked around town today, this evening, attended a panel discussion on a movement to make women’s achievements more prominent in urban signage and drove up the road with friends to a really […]