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La Mia Prima Alba Toscana
Jet lag got me up early this morning to shoot the sunrise...Thanks to some jet lag, I woke up at 5 a.m., Italian time, to a serious chorus of birdsong outside my window. I arrived in the heart of spring, and the birds are going crazy in the midst of doing what birds and bees do, comprende!
I certainly had enough NRG to grab my lenses and head outside as the birds were singing like crazy and sunrise was approaching. I discovered, embarrassingly, that my hosts had the house alarm armed at the time, and so yeah...you guessed it, I woke all of those who were lucky enough to be sleeping at the time... ':~p I was forgiven, and so I made my way outside, and explored my way around the property with camera in hand. The tule fog and sun rays cast through it were amazing and I simply couldn't capture how vivid it was to the naked eye without zooming way into the distance. Here are a few pictures (You must click on one of them to get to the rest!) of the sunrise ("alba" in italiano), the view out of my bedroom window, and a portrait of "la mia
Sun rays in the fog
I raggi solari gettato attraverso la nebbia. casa per un mese".
The arcitecture, as everyone knows, is a mixture of very old, darn old, just old, and new here. I had to mention to my cousin (my mom's cousin...I'm once-removed) that Italia "Old" is a heck of a lot different from Stati Uniti (USA) "Old", so I continually ask "Quanti anni ha?" to responses of "trenta-cento", "quaranta-cento", and "mille quaranta cento" anni for various buildings and structures...! For those not counting at home, that's 300, 400, and 1,400 years old, etc... There's what I suspect is a Roman aqueduct vicino a (near) Lucca that probably fits the "Very, very, dang-Old" category...but I haven't confirmed it yet!
Ciao.
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Linda
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If you have the time, make your way to Pompeii.....now that is old! :)