Happy Xmas

Tanti auguri di un felice Natale a tutti!

Elena

Snow

And so it began to snow here too.

This photo was made in January 2006. I hope that it doesn't snow as much as that time.

Musical sunset

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

Claude Debussy

Calendar

The idea was given to me some time ago from Vele/Ivi. So I realized a calendar with some of my photos and some aphorism. Who wants to download, print and hang in his-her room, or watch for curiosity, click here.

What colours winter

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

William Blake

Read it

Titolo originale: Die Frau mit den Regenhänden

Autore: Fleischhauer Wolfram

Traduttore: Cravero R.

Editore: Longanesi

Data di Pubblicazione: 2008

Pagine: 392

Prezzo: € 17,60




Today I want to suggest you a book that I read and I like it very much:
FIRST ROSE
Paris, 1867: Springtime, and the International Exhibition is about to start. A few days before the grand opening a child’s body is recovered from the Seine. When the mother is charged with murder she refutes the allegation and claims to have left her eight-month-old son at Lariboisière hospital, but the nurses deny all knowledge. At first her lawyer is convinced of her guilt, yet over time his investigation uncovers some puzzling inconsistencies. Suddenly powerful government agents start to take an interest in this seemingly straightforward case. More than a century later a young woman is working in a Paris library on the archives of a long-forgotten criminal trial. She is watched by Bruno, who yearns to make her acquaintance. He falls in love with her and little by little she opens up and tells him her story.
Paris, in March 1992. What kind of mystery surrounds the young woman, who, in a Paris library, tries to research a forgotten case from the 19th century? Bruno who is secretly watching Gaetane, longing to make her acquaintance, falls in love with her. Only with hesitation, does she allow him to participate in her story.
«A breathtaking historical thriller, a gripping mix of fact and fiction.» (Focus)

Bells

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Erich Segal

Bells - Shutterday.

The Post/Mail

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The Post/Mail - Shutterday.

Formal - Casual

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos


Formal-Casual - Two 4 Tuesday.

UFO reprise

Questo

After this, here another strange sighting. But it is always the sunset...or no?

I have to ask an opinion to Enrico Ruggeri!

Playful

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler

Playful - Moody Monday.

Generous - Selfish

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde

Altruism is to live and let live.

Anonymous

Generous - Selfish - Two 4 Tuesday.

Keys

Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Keys - Macro Day.

Red leaves

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

John Lennon

Bewitched

When I was a child I was afraid to walk across these woods because I thinking there were witches!

Bewitched - Moody Monday.

Rainbow

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton

...Is In The Details

...Is In The Details - Photo Friday.

Water

I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon the dewdrop.

Kahlil Gibran

Water - Lensday.

Water - Thursday Challenge.

Autumn

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.

Stanley Horowitz

Autumn - Macroday.

Autumn 2009 - Photo Friday.

Strange - Normal

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

Strange - Normal - Two for Tuesday.

Shameful

Good sense still existed; but it was kept concealed, for fear of the popular sense.

Alessandro Manzoni

Shameful - Moody Monday.

Noisy

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
Mel Brooks


Noisy - Lensday.

Surreal

What is that strange red light? A UFO?

No! It's only the sun going down!

Surreal - See it Sunday.

Bottles

One barrel of wine can work more miracles than a church full of saints.

Italian proverb

Barriques, directly from my wine cellar!

"BOTTLES" - Thursday Challenge.

Pain

Woe doth the heavier sit,

Where it perceives it is but faintly borne.

For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite

The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

William Shakespeare

Pain - Macroday.

Plants

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

George Washington

Plants - Photo Friday.

Slow

Life is a procession. The slow of foot finds it too swift and he steps out; and the swift of foot finds it too slow and he too steps out.

Kahlil Gibran

Moody Monday - Slow.

Writing instruments

It's true that, the pen in the hand of an excellent writer is a more powerful and terrible, and longer-term effect weapon, than every scepter or sword in the hand of a prince.

Vittorio Alfieri

Writing instruments - Macroday.

Artistic

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Josè Ortega

Artistic - Lensday.
Crafts - Thursday Challenge.

Rollfilm

This photo was made 10 years ago, with the old rollfilm camera of my brother.

Feet

Feet - See it sunday.

Silhouette

We spent the best part of life before saying «It's too soon», then saying «It's too late».

Gustave Flaubert

Alpi al tramonto - Alps at sunset.

Lensday.

Gift

You were very small 4 years ago, when you come to this house!

Now you are fat and thick, but you will be always one of my most beautiful birthday gift!

Patronal Feast#2

The bike is both man and woman. You love it as a woman and it tick you as a man. Beautiful and docile as interesting, fascinating and dangerous at the same time.

Rocco Siffredi

Patronal Feast#1

Flag-wavers Alfieri della Valle Belbo.

Blue – Yellow - Two for Tuesday.

Curved

Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

Milan Kundera

Thursday Challenge.

Mistake

I prefer to use electronic devices instead of musicians. They make fewer mistakes.
Frank Zappa


(Cattedrale di Cordoba - Cordoba's cathedral)

Shutterday: Mistake - Photos that did not turn out as you intended but turned out GOOD!

Madame Isabel

Let's start again...

Art attack

The little man in the middle is Corkbob! Because when you have an art attack, you can't suppress it ...
Well, how I realized Corkbob?
I took a cork of a bottle of Nebbiolo, on it I attacked the top of a capsule (of the same bottle of Nebbiolo) with the scotch (because thah phony attack I have at home is only good for bonding fingers). Previously I made a little opening on the capsule.
Then with an indelible I drew eyes, mouth, bow tie, buttons and hands.
Finally I broke half a toothpick and I make the legs.
Advice for those who want to build a house in Corkbob: before, drinking a bottle of Nebbiolo!
This is an....
ART ATTACK!

Pink sky

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

Cameraphone shot

As requested, the photo was taken with my cell phone.
Unfortunately it doesn't make justice to the beauty of this cat and his wonderful blue eyes!

Photo Friday.

Yellow

When a man with a .45 meets a man with a rifle, the man with a pistol will be a dead man.
Ramón, to Joe
A Fistful of Dollars


Macroday.

Pet

I love my cat, but I'm not sure to be returned.

See It Sunday.

Ducklings

This photo documents the arrival of some new guests in my yard!
It's a click with no artistic value, because it's difficult to photograph five scared ducklings ...
I wonder if they will become beautiful swans!

Stars

Qua sotto ho messo le stelline per dare un giudizio alle foto che pubblico. Mi farebbe molto piacere avere un vostro voto per sapere quali sono le vostre preferite!

Sunset

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Gustav Jung

Alhambra reprise

«Welcome to the winner by the grace of God»
«The only winner is God»
Muhammad ibn Nasr incoming winner in Granada


Un'altra foto dell'Alhambra a Granada. La prima la trovate qui.
Another photo of Alhambra in Granada. You find the previous here.

Clocks

The man who stops loving to not suffer again is like the man who stops the clock to save time.
Anonymous


Shutterday.

Natural - Artificial

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
Socrates


Two 4 Tuesday.

Open

The painter dreams that a flower blossoms on his paintbrush.
Chinese proverb


See It Sunday.

Con mia grande gioia e sorpresa ho visto che questa mia foto è risultata una delle tre vincitrici del Coin Challenge proposto da Macroday.
Grazie a chi ha apprezzato la mia fotografia e mi ha votato! Vi voglio bene!

To my great joy and surprise I saw that this photo is one of the three winner of the Coin Challenge proposed by Macroday.
Thanks to those who enjoyed my photography and voted for me! I love you!