Wooden Shutters

Wooden Shutters on Merchants’ Stores, Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy

The Ponte Vecchio is a medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge  over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewelers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. The bridge is mentioned in the aria  “O Mio Babbino Caro” by Giacomo Puccini.

Joan Dausa, “Jo Mai Mai”

Joan Dausa, “Jo Mai Mai”

Joan Dausà is a Spanish actor, known for “Arròs Cova”t (2009), “Barcelona, Nit d’Estiu” ( 2013) and “Barcelona Christmas Night” (2015). As a musician, he is a member, leader and visible face of the group Joan Dausà i els Tipus d’Interès , with which he has recorded four albums, and has performed several concert tours. He is the author of the BSO of the films “Barcelona, ​​Noche de Verano” (for which he received a Gaudí award) and “Barcelona Noche de Invierno”.

Stephen King: “An Old Friend You Have Missed”

A Black and White Collection

“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.”

–Stephen King, Salem’s Lot

Bread and More

Photographer Unknown, (Bread and More)

“There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger’s origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.”
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows