Cheers

Spritz to end this year. Cheers to you my dear friends and visitors...

Street Lamp

Bajo la penumbra de un farol
Se dormiran
Todas las cosas que quedaron por decir,
Se dormiran.
Junto a las manillas de un reloj
Esperaran.
Todas las horas que quedaron por vivir,
Esperaran.

Corte Sconta

One of my favorite concealed campi in Venice...

Foto Color

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
Ansel Adams

Crossing the bridge

“Let every man praise the bridge that carries him over”
English Proverb

Go on! Rub my belly!

Since Pierre seems to be resting, and knowing how impatient you all are for fresh photos (this one is only just over a year old), I thought I would see how many of you have noticed this when you have been walking around the Piazza. Can you see how the belly is polished? This is because there are two rows of columns in front of it, and it is considered bad luck to walk between the columns (like the ones in the Piazzetta). If you find you have inadvertently walked between the columns, you can cancel the bad luck by rubbing the belly on this carving.
It's not a good photo, I'm afraid. I don't like using flash, if I can avoid it.

8 AM in Cannaregio

It's eight in the morning, Venice wakes up...

Water

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Lao Tzu

Gondola ride

A gondola ride at dusk...

Waterfalls

A video installation on the windows of Palazzo Pestrin, over the Contini Art Gallery. A surprising work by Fabrizio Plessi.

Skyline

From the boat, leaving Burano to Venice...

Santa Maria della Salute

In the aftermath of a terrible bubonic plague epidemic, the Republic of Venice decided that a votive church would be built. Chosen to work on this project the young architect Baldassare Longhena (1598 - 1682) will dedicate fifty years of his life to this masterpiece, from 1631 to his death in 1682.

Waterborne greengrocer

A floating vegetable shop, somewhere in the lagoon...

Sunset

Fishing, on a quiet autumn evening.

Night Walk

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Marta

Pinot Nero or Grigio, Raboso, Cabernet, Chardonnay, Prosecco... On your way from San Giacomo dell Orio to Campo San Polo, make a stop at Ponte Parucheta to have a glass of wine at Marta's.

Chimney stacks

Venetian chimney stacks, like a bunch of thin men silently pacing up and down the roofs...

Path

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry David Thoreau

Eagle

When you are in front of the bookshop (last image) keep on walking and you will find this eagle, on a facade by Pietro Lombardo, whose name I will let tell by my cultivated visitors and friends...

Books

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden

Newlyweds

Love me and the world is mine.

Painting Venice

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
Paul Cezanne

Donazione Senatore Pietro Canonica

Not far from where yesterday's picture was taken, this building bearing the name of Italian sculptor and composer Pietro Canonica ((March 1, 1869 – June 8, 1959.

Watching the leaves turn

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
Elizabeth Lawrence

Evening on the lagoon

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein