May 29, 2013
Spotted on the Streets of Southeast Sicily:
Mama’s Pride and Joy,
Mama’s Glamour Boy.
Is there a mammone (mama’s boy) in your life?
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September 5, 2012 L’onuri è fattu a li robbi. Sicilian proverb: Honor is determined by your dress. *** Summer is running out of steam. Before nostalgia sets in, here is a quick glimpse at what they were wearing this season. And speaking of clothing, Debora Lo Magno from a few posts ago was very touched by your comments. She sends you a note: Sono Debora. Grazie per tutti i vostri commenti sul mio abito.
(To speed up the 10-image slideshow, click on the photo to make the next one appear. Hope it works this time!) August 25, 2011 I was stalking photos in Palazzolo Acreide, a sweet town in the hinterlands of Southeast Sicily, when I spotted a pink coppola in the distance. I needed a picture of that cap. I ran after it. “Scusi, Signore!” I caught up to it as the owner was putting a key in his car door. “Can I take your photo? Put it on my blog?” He smiled and nodded good-naturedly. Odd that he seemed to know what a blog was–many Sicilians don’t. I shepherded him away from his car and posed him in front of a blank wall. Snap, snap, snap. Bella figura! A fine specimen, indeed.
Note the jewel-studded lizard crawling out of the pocket. The bling around his neck? Greek masks, he said. (Just above Palazzolo lies the ancient Greek city of Akrai.)
The man in the pink cap sped away, and I continued stalking photos. Thirty minutes later, something a little odd happened, and I discovered what this man does for a living. Can you guess his job? *** July 24, 2010 Everyone’s doin’ it. Wearing viola, that is. Someone up North in Milano must have recently decreed that the masses wear purple. Or perhaps they issued the edict last year and the news took a while to filter down to Sicily. Whatever. The color is everywhere and stepping into the piazza on a warm summer night feels like stepping into a fieldful of blooming violets.
Are you wearing it, too? *** Here’s Lucy (below right). She’s a reader from Toronto (see her comment on this post) and wanted to be included as a Sicilian in purple. Happy to oblige!
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