“Imperiale”, an Understatement
Dinner at Il Giardino del Naviglio (Garden restaurant, near the Naviglio Pavese canal). When our server brought this platter and set it in front of me, placing another one on the other side of the...
Fourplex Postings
Mount a poster and you've got public notice. Mount 2 or 4 together and it becomes art. The repetition of one image creates a pattern perhaps unintended by the original designer, but SO effective by...
Dream
I have been dreaming... and I am! This poster had my name all over it… and the names of all my family and friends!
Ozmo
The "street art" - the graffiti and murals - around here keeps my fingers clicking. And I find imagery around any corner, behind, under and on top of other things. The back sides of billboards. The...
A Phone in Italian
There's nothing like buying a new cell phone, in Italy. Just shopping for one was hard enough without a language in common with the sales person. Now I've bought one and the manual is in Italian and...
Language and Shopping
The most complicated thing I've (tried to) shop for is an Italian cell phone. It'd be easy to simply get any old cheap phone, just something that'll make and take calls, and do SMS... But I'm a tech...
Cimitero Monumentale
Milano's Cimitero Monumentale - Monumental Cemetery - is beyond words. It rivals many museums of architecture and sculpture and offers a lesson one could spend years studying. The architectural...
Sunday Sounds
The 10-foot high French doors are wide open. (Are they called "Italian doors" since we're in Italy?) We had a long, strong rain last night and the air is cool. The sky is blue. Someone in an...
Sunday Brunch, Day Three
I guess I could have gotten a bigger plate. A little of this, a little of that and all of a sudden the small plate was piled high with proscuitto crudo, scamorza affumicata, focaccia with carmelized...
Cheese Heaven
There's a really great grocery store that I walk to about a mile away. It's a good thing that it's two miles there and back and that I walk because I keep finding really delicious cheeses to try...
Door Knocker
A pair of these beautiful, iron hands knock on double doors along Corso San Gottardo, between my apartment and the grocery store. They stopped me in my tracks.
Graffiti Spiral
This spiral greeted me as I stepped out of the Romolo subway stop near home.