Getting ready for some Travel Sketching next month, I’ve been going through old photographs, organizing them. As I do, I’m sketching from a few, warming up for a week-long Sketchbook workshop I’ll be taking. Click through if you’d like a peek.
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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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Whew! What a week this has been! Tuesday, I was so scrambled that I dialled into my Wednesday night Italian class — a few minutes early, as usual — and found myself the only…
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Rain has settled in here, unpacked its bags, looked around, decided it might stay a while. At least a week. . . . So I’m going to reminisce about sunshine, crisp fall sunshine, temperatures that…
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Title’s a reference to Stevie Smith’s poem, “Not Waving but Drowning”, in case you don’t know it. . . . Late posting this week — I tripped over something that sent me into a puddle of…
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