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January 17, 2013 The walls here are spattered and dripping with great splotches of color. Canvases of abstract expressionism. I’ll tell you something: studying these walls is as much fun for me as visiting a museum-ful of Rothkos, Motherwells, and Pollocks. Che ne pensi? Whaddaya think? Are these walls in urgent need of repair? Or are they A-OK just the way they are?
October 21, 2012 When I throw open the shutters in the morning, the cupola is there, like a gift. The color of sweet latte. It is moody, changeable, capriciosa.
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Note: Slides of the Cathedral of San Giorgio in Ragusa Ibla. October 11, 2012 A pride of lions and lionesses populate the village. Sometimes it seems there are more of you than us… What’s your story, Leo? Are you a leftover symbol of the Ancient Greek colonies on Sicily? (Hercules slew a lion, didn’t he?) Or do you come from Sicily’s Norman period, when your lion’s head was the symbol of the Hauteville’s?
Have you seen the majestic lions and lionesses of Sicily? Do you know anything about them? Please educate me, dear Reader. *** P.S. One of my readers, an Irishman (I love the Irish!!!!) sent me this photo of a lion door in Palermo. It’s not just any door! It’s the door of a fabulous-looking palazzo, a B&B he recommends called Butera 28. It seems reasonably priced, is owned by a duke and duchess, and is listed in 1000 Places to See Before You Die. Thank you, dear Reader, for this great tip.
September 18, 2012 Some sweet Sicilian ways to display the address of your casa:
February 25, 2012 I love peeping into windows in Sicily, a tendency some might call nosy, prying, voyeuristic.
Bay windows, picture windows, French windows, jalousie windows. They all set me to dreaming.
Of other lives. Secret lives.
I wonder: What sort of people are behind that window? What are they craving, creating, suffering?
I’d like to try on their story, if only for a little while. *** |
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