some pictures
a few random ones i liked and had time to crop down to size. mostly flowers. naturally.
yeah. um. this was the freaking view from our balcony in the village of manarola, which is part of the cinque terre, five fishing villages along the riviera. hello candy-colored houses stacked like jenga blocks. and ocean. you are very pretty.
this is in the rose garden below the piazzale michelangiolo, that is across the river arno and provides an amazing vista of florence. the rose garden is only open for like 25 days in may and june. this is the precise moment where my flower-photo-taking-descent started. that blob in the background is the duomo of the, well, duomo.
i took this picture as we hiked from the train station in the tiny town of castelfranco d'emilia to the restaurant villa gaidello for a bazillion-hour lunch. this is basically what all of emilia-romagna looks like: flat land, big sky. and sometimes you get a crapload of fog.
SURPRISE! a flower! this is a gerber daisy (i think that's what they're called, anyway) at villa gaidello. they are one of my favorite flowers. and apparently very photogenic.
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boo boring flower pictures.
yay pictures of spent wine bottles - slash - tommy awkwardly attempting to smile unawkwardly.
oh, don't worry. i've got like, hundreds of the awkward tommy pics.
Is this the horrible rainy weather you were whining about? It looks bellissima!
i know, we seriously lucked out. it poured in milan the first couple of days, but was beautiful in cinque terre. then it drizzled most of the time in florence, but was beautiful when we returned for the last two days to milan. so my weather fears were (mostly) unfounded! i think weather.com must be notoriously unreliable when it comes to foreign destinations.
It was more or less on target when it forecasted "SMOKE" for several weeks I spent in Moscow. You Italy, you know nothing of bad weather, comrade!
I hope weather.com reads "PLAGUE" for the end of May.
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