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Watching LinoVision
They’re like all the people Lino knows. Back in the depths of the summer heat, about the time when the sun began to set and the air to cool, we liked to go outside and sit on the edge of our little...
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Halloween, bite-size
At mid-afternoon, families and costumed kids began to roam around via Garibaldi, shaking down all the shop owners they could find. “Scherzetto dolcetto!” they cry (trick or treat), bouncing into shops...
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O Christmas Screen, O Christmas Screen…
Seen from afar, it’s the Little Christmas Tree that Could. The bright glow in the glum is admittedly rather pleasant. You might wonder how a Christmas tree could possibly make people mad (though...
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How we are (part 2)
This was us, a year ago. This is us, pretty much now. I’ve been trying for a month to find some way to write a deep and detailed update on life here these days, but I give up. What follows is the best...
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The fog and I
Most times you don’t see the fog that is enclosing you — you discern it according to how thickly it covers relatively nearby objects. As in this case I examined the end of our next-door street, which...
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I brake for justice
Another great lion of San Marco, this time painted by Donato Bragadin, also known as Donato Veneziano, in 1459. This lion is holding a book, as usual, but the message is not the traditional “Pax tibi...
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The voyage of the bocolo
Taking our rose for a ride. As everyone knows, April 25 is a big date on the Venetian calendar: Not only is it the Feast of San Marco, but also Liberation Day, commemorating the end of World War II....
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Momspeak
Mothers are beyond comprehension. If this woman had had three other kids, I have absolutely no doubt she’d have found a way to carry them as well. Plus the groceries and a sheaf of gladioli. Happy...
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Life in LinoLand
Tell me Lino went to school with somebody who built the basilica of the Salute, and I’d believe it. Jesting aside, the photos today have no special links to the topic at hand. Just wanted to send you...
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the mystery of the disappearing photos solved (I think)
I’m very glad to have had so many responses to my last post about seeing/not seeing the photos on my blog. There seems to be consensus on the theory I had begun to form. In the words of one reader:...
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