Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Xmas time at home


This is me!


Our Xmas tree


Red empty glasses....soon they will be filled with great-tasting red wine!!


Waiting for guests to arrive!


 My favourite wines: Lacryma Christi from the South of Italy and Sante Dame from Toscana vineyards


Soupe santé...my mother's speciality! Every year, for Xmas Eve, she prepares this dish...ever since I was a child....and that was a long time ago!! 



Love serving different kind of bread



Panettone from the north and Pastiera from the south of Italy (handmade by my mother!)....our traditional Xmas cakes!



Garfield...our fat ginger cat...not really feeling in a Xmas mood here....


Getting better now....
Garfield and Marina, my daughter...his favourite person in the house...well...he actually is "in love" with her!



Garfield and Kristian, my son. When Marina is not around ....the cat allows him to pet him !!




Monday, December 24, 2012

Saturday shots

Nice colors for design pots




 Seagulls downtown....they are everywhere, just like pigeons!!
roma gabbiano fontana



Xmas time, so we have "Zampognari" in town playing their typical instruments, zampogne (double chantered pipes). Mostly from Marche, Abruzzo and Molise regions.
roma zampognari pantheon



 Italian creativity and French essences.....Laura Tonatto is well-known and long-revered as a woman who "paints with perfume"....



Piazza Navona. This is Giovanni....he reads verses in your eyes and then writes them down for you on a little yellow card!!
piazza navona giovanni poesie



Parked motorbykes, I liked their windshields against the sun
roma motorini parabrezza controluce



Bob Dylan reading the Herald Tribune at Feltrinelli bookshop in Largo Argentina
bob dylan feltrinelli roma



Inside Feltrinelli Bookshop in Largo Argentina
roma libreria feltrinelli largo argentina




 Young couple talking and seagull listening, Pantheon
pantheon roma gabbiano coppia giovane



Starman waiting in the sky, as David Bowie would sing. Corso Vittorio Emanuele
roma cupola cielo blu




One more seagull enjoying the town!

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Wednesday walk


Piazza di Spagna, la Barcaccia
rome barcaccia water sunshine



Old man trying not to think
rome barcaccia old man



Horse thinking that he is fed up with this kind of job....
piazza di spagna horses red



Pigeon thinking: "I'm the king of the world"
pigeon piazza di spagna stone


Xmas time red



Water drops falling on my camera
rome barcaccia fountain piazza di spagna



Smoke gets in your eyes-chestnuts
rome chestnuts seller



Totò recommending a restaurant in town



Hanging out the washing, right behind the Pantheon
pantheon lady washing



Casa e Chiesa
piazza navona church sky

Monday, December 17, 2012

Do they know it's Xmas time at all?


Piazza Navona Xmas market and roman sunset


Silly real dog barking at dumb fake one staring at him


Chestnuts seller, not from Rome


Changing weather


Smiling from Xmas Carousel in the square


Begging outside a church


Xmas traditional decorations


Bored roman centurion at work


Sant'Agnese in Agone and its friend, the sun


Sophia!


Xmas shopping....shoes!?!!...


...more shoes...


and more and more shoes....What's the problem with us italians?!!!


Improving.....no more shoes but.... glasses



....and more glasses....


and even more useful things....


....and...a cat?!! Oh, no, this is our cat Garfield...not for sale!!

Finally some music in the street.....in Rome too...You see? We have to wait Xmas time to make these things happen.....!!!!!