Florence Sept. 2019 / The Arno River rose to its highest levels today since 1992.

“Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.”

Henry James

It does not seem to end.

https://www.theflorentine.net/news/2019/11/flooding-tuscany-florence/

Venice Sept 2019 Reflections

“White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest…
White phantom city, whose untrodden streets
Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting
Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.”


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Venice 2019 Thinking of you.

Florence

"Through these old streets I wander dreamily; 
Around me Florence sweeps her busy tide of life." 

-William Leighton

The River Arno, Florence

AND I: “Through midst of Tuscany there wanders
A streamlet that is born in Falterona,
And not a hundred miles of course suffice it; Dante, Purgatory, Canto XIV, trans. Longfellow

2019 Canadian National Poultry Show

Yesterday we travelled to Olds Alberta with our friends Lynda and Jan for
2019 Canadian National Poultry Show in Olds. The show was great, there were many different varieties of ducks, geese and particularly chickens. The patterns and iridescence of the feathers on these birds as incredible and something you would never see from a photo. Should you get the opportunity to see this type of show I would really encourage you to go. 

We also had a lovely lunch at Grouchy Daddy's, we all gave it a thumb's up. 

https://www.grouchydaddys.com

Dante and Florence

"But I will make another tongue arise

As lofty and more sweet, in which expressed 

The hero’s ardour, or the lover’s sighs,

Shall find alike such sounds for every theme

That every word, as brilliant as thy skies 

Shall realise a Poet’s proudest dream"

from The Prophecy of Dante

Lord Byron