Thursday, February 14, 2008

valentine's day ... and she remembered my star sign !


















and so on and so forth

not my photo of rip cronk's famous mural ... but, in an ideal world ...


... the getty foundation would step in and move it up the hill from venice beach in to their nice little museum


Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Monday, February 11, 2008

centuripe and gangi

last year, as we flew away from catania across sicily, i was intrigued by the distinctive "site-specific" layouts of two hill-top towns

i tentatively photographed them through the triple-glazing

yesterday afternoon i spent a long time using google earth to scan that rugged terrain and eventually was able to identify them as ...

centuripe
























and gangi

i looked up and there she was ... gliding with an accompaniment of unnecessary birdsong