Gonna miss this street like crazy…Borgo Allegri…historic, beautiful, crazy…bikes and kids and the old men in the wood furniture shops…good place…always bustling …but quiet with swallows flight and chidrens laughter at the same time…will be moving on at the end of this month only five minutes away walking…but it won’t be the same!!
here it is in the winter…ahhhhhh…after a good rain…
New kid on the block…he will be coming with us…
My mom has always been a big fan of kitsch and is well aware of the poofta factor of the room. She aptly named it: Sunrise in Liberace’s mother’s bedroom.
My bed when I was growing up was an enormous princess and the pea type number. It had a big, old, oak head and footboard and stood so high I had to put my foot on the side board to get into it. one of my favorite things to do was put all my stuffed animals on it and pretend it was a boat headed out to sea.
Above were clouds painted by my mom. She spent a week during my 4th grade summer making big fluffy ones against a blue sky. I was so excited. I had a princess bead, big fluffy clouds and the only octagon shaped bedroom in a 200 mile radius. Let’s just say two words: princess complex.
When I go home about once a year I still sleep in my old room…in my old bed. It’s a bit too soft for me now and it kind of gives me the creeps to be 36 sleeping in my old room (something about going to bed a 36 year old adult and waking up to be a 13 year old brat…hummm..) but I still day dream about it. I miss waking up in that bright morning light.
The bird of paradise plant was my birthday gift at age 13. That’s all I wanted that year…since I couldn’t live in the tropics. Poor me.
Some of my vintage luggage. Damn, I miss that too!!!
I took a few shots around Santo Spirito and the Arno the other day and wanted to share…I do live in Florence after all!
Today I framed four pictures I took whie traveling in China back in 2001. Now I wonder how long it will take me to get them up on the wall?
They might be sitting on my shelf for a while.
