A ray of sunlight
The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.
Thomas Jefferson
posted by Pierre at 9:35 PM
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.
Thomas Jefferson
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10 Comments:
Beautiful shot.
But are you getting up before the dawn? Surely not!
I love the Jefferson quote.
Beautiful view, so serene.
Before we come to blows trying to agree on where it's been taken from exactly - HELP! Pierre - or Bert, please put us out of our misery! (It's a lovely image, by the way)
Nice! (sigh)
I'm with Lily H—love the quote from Jefferson—and your photo equally so! Been in Paris for a few days and it was great, but I've missed VDP . . .
You went all French on the Chocolate Salami watermark, Pierre. Hardly surprising, really.
Give me a couple of days and I might be able to find this spot, when I get home.
Based on the waterbreaks in the basin this looks like it was taken while standing just beyond the Traghetto Molo looking back toward Riva degli Schiavoni. Very nice Pierre!
I'll have to go along with ILAB - those breakwaters are the only ones I know of. But I can't identify anything in the background with what I see on veniceconnected. It looks like a vap stop on the left, then a building with a really high door, or window, then some tall buildings, then a bridge. The best fit is the Ponte de l'Arsenale, but the building next to it in Pierre's photo is at least three storeys high with a white building quite close to it on the left, whereas there is a wide low building to the left of the bridge when you look on vc, and none of the doors and windows matches up.
Judith, yes I wake up at dawn or before as much as I can.
And I like this quote too Lily.
To bert and ILAB, well I was indeed on the mole, and on the opposite side of the picture, it's supposed to be the Riva degli Schiavoni and the Arsenale... But I could not tell more...
As a person who lives within sight of Jefferson's Monticello on land that was once one of his quarter farms, thank you for the Jefferson quotation. Much as Jefferson loved Italy and Palladio, I fear he never made it as far at Venice to see the great Palladian buildings there.
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