The 2011 Vintage Roadside Sign Challenge
via vintagesignchallenge.posterous.com Mary and I will be cataloging vintage roadsigns from across the US in competition with my dad and Mary’s cousin. We’re posting our findings on vintagesignchallenge.posterous.com. Follow the blog if you want to see what we find. Here are the rules: Signs must be photographed by Christmas Eve, 2011. You must take the photograph yourself and upload it to this blog. Once a sign is photographed and posted by someone, no one else can submit it as an entry. You must get out of the car to take the picture. It must be functioning as a sign. No Read more…
The snow is really falling here in Plain, WA!
And the river is beautiful.
The City of Falling Angels
John Berendt, who wrote the wildly popular and very funny Midnight in the Garden of Evil about Savannah, Georgia, wrote another book called "The City of Falling Angels" about Venice. Like Midnight, the book is funny, interesting, and filled with a colorful cast of characters. Also like Midnight, it starts much better than it ends. Midnight was ostensibly about a murder, but it was hard to get into the details of it by the end when what you really wanted to do was just keep meeting interesting people. The same is true about Falling Angels, which focuses around the fire Read more…
This is what I’m craving most right now.
Mary and I actually did a pretty good panino at home yesterday. Prosciutto, fresh mozzarella, roma tomatoes, basil from the deck, and a good ciabatta from the store and then grilled. It really was 99% as good as what we had in Italy. But man, it's an expensive lunch.
Question for the day
Something I was thinking about in Italy … we translate Venezia as Venice; Firenze as Florence; Roma as Rome. And yet the non-major cities we don't translate. Siena is Siene, Volterra is Volterra, Vernazza is Vernazza. This holds true across most foreign countries it seems. Moscow is a rough translation of Muskva, for example, but Vladivostok is Vladivostok. Why translate large city names but not others? Why didn't we just call Firenze Firenze?
Opened our bottle of wine from Tuscany. Fun to think that just last week we stayed on the farm the grapes are from.
A simple bottle. The owners only make 1000 a year. We made gnocchi with a bolognese sauce and a Caprese salad to go with it. A nice night in.
The Colosseum at night … 9 iPhone photos autostitched together
I still intend to post a lot more pictures of our trip. But until then, here's a cool view of the Colosseum. The autostitching gives it a bit of a fish-eye look, so it looks a little small. But still, it's a beautiful building at night. I love the lighting.
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