Favorite {Photo} Friday! #5

I mentioned before that missing Italy comes in phases. Although I always miss certain things about living in Italy, I'm not in an intense "I'm really missing Italy" phase at the moment. But today two things happened. First, my friend Angela, who is still in Italy, sent me an e-mail about going to the local market and the hilarity of attempting to try on pants in the back of a huge van with one of the back doors opened; she said it made her think of and miss me, which is awesome and also pretty hilarious in and of itself, right? Then I read Deborah's post about her trip to Italy. So here I am back to a photo from Italy for Favorite {Photo} Friday! :)


Here we are in Venice once again. I particularly love this photo. I love how the metal grate is out of focus but you can still see the "Elegant Decay" that is Venice. I love the light and the shadows, which are ever-present in Venice with all of the tall buildings and narrow alleyways. I love that I can remember squatting down on a bridge and blocking foot traffic (Venice's equivalent of a major party foul) to take this shot. It was worth it. ;)

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Clean-clean-cleaning the house today. Not a lot of fun but WOW what a load off knowing it's done! Still working on a bunch of things I mentioned in my last post... lately I feel like I am doing a bit of swimming upstream; lots of work and not a lot of results. Bummer, but hopefully over with the mega-cleaning jump-start today! Enjoying both Photography 101 (which I think is going to be a lot more work than I'd anticipated--but in a good way I suppose!) and Have More Fun (which is super fun BUT I haven't kept up with the assignments!) over at BPS. Going to another party at Kerry's tonight, yippee! And I've had a sudden urge to rent a power-washer this weekend and do the outside of the house. We'll see how that plays out.

Have a great weekend, everyone! :)