Dawn Stroll, Deepest Sicily

May 1, 2013

Tumble out of bed at dawn and meet me for a wander about town.

Street Sweeper in Southeast Sicily, copyright Jann Huizenga

Lion Fountain in Southeast Sicily, copyright Jann Huizenga

Red Door in Southeast Sicily, copyright Jann Huizenga

Clock tower in Ragusa Ibla, Sicily, copyright Jann Huizenga

Fountain in Ragusa Ibla, Sicily, copyright Jann Huizenga

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Let’s Hang Out the Sheets!

March 14, 2013

Yay! It stopped raining for five minutes! Let’s hang out the sheets!

Sheets hanging in Southeasts Sicily, copyright Jann  Huizenga

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Sicilian Walls: Fine Art?

 

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?

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Settling in Sicily: A Long Decision, Part 1

May 5, 2012

It took me years–decades actually–to settle in Europe. An adolescent daydream turned into a young woman’s pipe dream, then a middle-aged reverie.

Time flowed fast as a mountain river in spring.

It took my mother’s death to make me really get it. Time is a Thief.

Do you know what I read to her on her deathbed? Under the Tuscan Sun. A book she’d picked out. As her life ebbed away, mine came strangely into focus. A mother’s last gift to a daughter.

Soon afterward I mustered a little courage, went against my cautious nature, and discovered Southeast Sicily.

Never mind that it took me another five years to find the house with the fat green doors. Find it I did.

Cui camina licca, cui sedi sicca.  

Who walks gains, who sits withers.  

(Old Sicilian proverb)

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Quatro: Sicilian Quartets

September 26, 2011

Which is your favorite Sicilian Gang of Four?

Sicilian Women with baby, copyright Jann Huizenga

Sicilian Men Reading Death Notices, copyright Jann Huizenga

Four Sicilian Women, copyright Jann Huizenga

Four Sicilian Men Walking, copyright Jann Huizenga

Four Sicilian Teens, copyright Jann Huizenga

Four Sicilian Women, copyright Jann HuizengaSicilian Men, copyright Jann HuizengaSicilian Women, copyright Jann Huizenga

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Congratulations to Lynne of the beautiful blog Decollete Glimpses who has won the drawing for the porta banana!

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