Horse!

Horse! Shall we join forces?!

Fire Works

A good memory

South Beach

Girl and her pet scarf.

Un-boxed

Blocks

Miles

of mattress

Sea Grape Trees

A 4th-Street Studio, South Beach 

Hello.

Hello, Cotton Candy. 

neighbors

On a walk

in Paris I saw a shop keeper exit her establishment to greet a street cleaner with two kisses. He wore orange, he swept the ground with a straw broom. They were happy to greet each other. 

rome covered in snow is rare

 Today I saw people throwing snowballs, this includes adults, other people were taking photos of the snow, and one woman used a rolled up yoga mat to clear the windshield of her car.

V, i think i'll have melted chocolate for breakfast

When I got to Versailles all of the statues in the gardens were covered by plastic, the fountains were off, bushes were browning.  I commented to my friend that these things were done especially for me.

With that said, nope I wasn't bothered. How can I be bothered by such things? Someone once told me that grey is grey, when you decide to see it as grey.. I'll have this memory to compare it to the next.

photography is art.

The Henri Cartier-Bresson 'immagini e parole' exhibition in Rome. If I could spend a morning with three of photos from this exhibition they would be:  

A photo shot in Mexico in 1954 of an unkept boy entering a gate of a somewhat unkept home with a framed portrait of a well dressed woman who could pass for his mother, tucked underneath his left arm.

The 1947 downtown photo of New York. In it there is a cat and a man, they both seem to be out of luck,  or they could just be looking for a quiet place to sit.

A photo taken in Paris in 1938 of a young man (30s) kissing the hand of a Cardinal.

two boots in a tree

     The other day, on route to the metro, I stopped to admire two boots in a tree. 

Pantheon

Indeed it is open.

Yes

The bottom of the dress looks like melted metal. I wouldn't mind going to the movies in this. 

lilies

There's a park near the coloseo, that can be seen from inside of the coloseo, yet tourists don't venture there.  Which works out well since the locals always have reading spots in the sun.

The other day I had a walk there, and on the walk I noticed a floral symbol on a step by the side entrance. If I hadn't combed the area I wouldn't have seen it...  Since the symbol could have passed as an intended mistake, intended mistakes are sometimes hard to spot. .. Once I examined all of the stairs I found three on that set, which all varied in design.

After this discovery I took to examining other sets of stairs, there were two others. One was brick which probably means it was renovated... And there were two other flowers on the other.

After this, I remembered that this design was also used as a drain at the Spanish Steps... I've also been seeing it on the exteriors of buildings.

This morning I showed my barista the photos on my phone. "Che significa?," I said.

"It's a coincidence," said he.

"You shouldn't lie if you don't know the answer." I said. The he called be Sherlock Holmes, and I will not tell you what I called him. 

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After some web searching I think it's safe to say that these floral designs were done in the likeness of lilies.  Leonardo da Vinci, El Greco, and Botticelli incorporated a lily in their paintings of Archangel Gabriel's visit to the Virgin Mary.

This may also be of some importance: "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not neither do they spin. And yet I saw unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." - Christ, from The Sermon On The Mount.

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This may make sense since Rome is the Pope's house.

The King Arthur Cloisters

Some time has passed since I last wrote. But it was only a blink in my life, so that's alright. 

In October I visited the Cloisters in nyc. Upon arrival I was reminded that there are still places that I have not seen in the city...

Upon this walk I found a room with a small fountain. I stood over it and dropped a coin. .. I don't remember what I wished for.

As I was leaving an Asian couple, dressed in bride and groom attire, and a photographer were stopped from taking photos. There were some words about needing permission.

On route to the Cloisters

Apples

This evening in front of the Apple store on 68th and Broadway. 

There were also bitten apples and flowers on the ground. 

Susie

As of late I've noticed a woman seated on a low wall half a block away from the colosseum who sells these handmade animal figures that are made of palm tree leaves. So far her orgami-like collection consists of frogs, scorpions, birds, and turtles.

I'm not sure how many times I walked past her until I made the decision to stop. I chose a bird. A small crowd materialized at the moment of this transaction.

During the walk to the line B metro, people kept looking at the clear plastic bag as if I were walking past with a bag of gold fish.

hop on!

"Bortolucci," a shop in Rome that sells wooden objects such as hair brushes, pencil holders, and clocks has this wooden motorcycle in their doorway.