23 years after my father’s death, I’ve finally begun mending a vest he once wore, handknit for him in the mid ’40s, ravaged by moths a few decades later. And then I started sketching his face from a favourite family photo of him and his brother. Memory work in progress. Click through to see and read.
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February. “A good month for reading” might be the best we can say
about the “f” month. So I made the most of it — one blockbuster of a big novel; a collection of weird and wonderful short stories; a travel memoir (Italy); and four mystery novels. Click through to see what I read and join our book chat.
A quiet corner; a couple of outfits I enjoyed wearing on cold days; a few scenes of the urban waterfront view that always coaxes a smile . . . a weird-but-worth-it book . . . and an excerpt from a 30-year-old travel journal I kept . . . A Sunday Seven for you, things that brought a smile in a week that challenged. Click through to read.
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The horse tethering rings I saw in Siena last November fascinated me, and I snapped photo after photo. I’m sharing them here to take you on a tour of that Tuscan city — also sharing a few pages from my travel sketch journal.
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I’ve never seen Siena’s dramatic annual horse race, Il Palio, but I’d read about it before we visited last fall. And I very quickly saw traces of the city’s horse culture throughout the winding narrow streets of its historic centre. Walk through it with me? click to read the full post.
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