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Food porn #1

Okay, you guys. The food here is fabulous, so fabulous I keep forgetting to photograph it before we eat it. But I did grab some pix for you and there will be more. I’m sitting in my window watching at the layered mountains recede to the southwest and the rain clouds slide in. Dinner soon, but here’s yesterday’s. I didn’t manage the main course (grilled meats and vegetables) but I got everything else.

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Campari and soda before dinner.

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Antipasti, and students going for it, and statues looking on enviously.

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Antipasti plate.

Cake.

More Italy photos for you

July 31, 2015 / SJ Rozan / One comment

I’m back, supremely jetlagged, and have managed to stagger out to the Rancho. Bella, because I know you want to know, had a marvelous time with her cat sitter while I was gone. He was doing research much of the time he was at the apartment and therefore was sitting still. This created a number of perfect opportunities to pet the cat, of which he apparently took advantage. Bella says he can come back anytime.

I have about ten thousand photos from Assisi and environs, which I’ll be posting over the next week. To start, here are a bunch of them.

field below town

basilica reflected in vine-covered cafe window

new roof tiles among the old (you didn’t think you were going to escape the roof tiles, did you?)

sunflower

with art workshop international staff visiting an artist friend at civitella ranieri

new section at assisi cemetery

perugia

lunch in perugia

courting couple with chaperone

a gaggle of nuns

Sculpture, tiles, and frescoes

July 21, 2015 / SJ Rozan / No comments

Assisi is full of frescoes, mostly old, and tiles and sculptures, many newer (but most by no means new) mounted outdoors on the stone buildings. Some, especially the frescoes, were damaged in the 1997 earthquake or over the past, you know, eight centuries. I’ve been photographing them as I walk around town. Thought you might like to see a few. (I have photos from some interiors, too; will post them later.)