Resting on the Piazza

 

Photographer Unknown, (Resting on the Piazza)

“When I removed into the country, it was to occupy an old-fashioned farm-house, which had no piazza – a deficiency the more regretted, because not only did I like piazzas, as somehow combining the coziness of in-doors with the freedom of out-doors, and it is so pleasant to inspect your thermometer there, but the country round about was such a picture, that in berry time no boy climbs hill or crosses vale without coming upon easels planted in every nook, and sunburnt painters painting there.”

Herman Melville, The Piazza

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