I had the best of intentions of blogging often. I was thinking Ah, I’ll be lounging about, drinking a little cappuccino, laptop on my lap… My tenth year here at Art Workshop International in Assisi and I still haven’t figured it out. Between teaching and hanging with my buddies, between walks and art and my local friends I only see once or twice a year, all that lounging time doesn’t exist.
So here I am, belatedly, back again, with some photos. Most of them are from Assisi, though we took a little trip — and I mean little, literally 4 minutes on the train (though of course you have to walk down to Santa Maria degli Angeli to get the train, and then wait for the train, so from the hotel the trip is about an hour and 4 minutes) — to Bastia, and strolled around.

View from our favorite cafe

Breakfast at the Hotel Giotto (plus a little fruit for lunch…)

The hard-working guys holding up the rose window at San Rufino

Below street-level plantings. Don’t show this to Grow Dammit, he’ll feel insecure.

Flower pot on the wall

Sunflowers, almost ready for harvest

Bastia: the market’s over

Bastia: painted wall

Filipina nuns in habits and identical straw hats waiting for the bus.

Bastia: I don’t think this is the police station any more…

…or else some cop has a very green thumb.

Dragon sings karaoke