Month: December 2015
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The Answer to the Italian Guessing Game and I Need you to help me pick a creative winner….
Ceramic shoes in various designs are from Palazzo Davanzati museum in Florence, they are a very rare collection of 17th century hand warmers in the shape of shoes. I had never seen such a thing, and decided it might be a…
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The First Evening
Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. Mary Ritter Beard
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Views Throughout the Day of Florence
Photo by Sacha Florence isn't big, but there is more to see in an inch then there is to see in most larger cities. Modern to medieval within a heartbeat. No matter where you look there is something to see,…
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Jumping for David
Photos of David by Sacha. The man about town (Florence) is David. And oh what a man. Young. Well built. I hadn't seen him up close in over thirty years nevertheless my older eyes found him equally as handsome now as…
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Florence for Christmas
Florence looking out from the Pont Vecchio on Christmas Eve Morning. French Husband, Chelsea, Sacha and I drove to Florence to spend the week before Christmas together. With 62 museums and a man who could spend half the morning…
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If Christ Can be Born in a Stable
Peaceful and Bright Christmas to you and yours. Years ago when I was a mere kid, Father Carriege was a "new" priest at our church. Father Carriege was cool, he had long hair, often was barefoot, and when he…