after meeting mary and getting to know each other, sharing our wishes, fears and dreams she proposed we go to europe, italy as i remember. i had always wanted to travel the world without being in a uniform but never put it together. why do we always wait? how do we know what time we have left here?
we set a date and she cashed in some of her frequent flyer miles and got the tickets. we were all set.
in the meantime the Rolling Stones and Martin Scorsese had contracted the Beacon theater where i had just left for early retirement for a concert and movie Shine A Light and everyone i worked with said come back it’s going to be a big one, meaning everyone should made a lot of money. ‘But i am going to italy with mary’ i replied.
it did make me think about my work life, how i’d given up almost all my holidays and weekends to work. family events revolved around my work schedule. but not any more i had worked since i was 14 years old and it was time to stop and smell the flowers with Mary.
i’ve not regretted that decision one bit.
the other day i was looking for some tree images to enter into a contest and turned on a HD i seldom view with some of the italy images which i’ll share a couple here.
this is one of the first thing we see as we enter The Colosseum. it’s surrounded by people but i managed to get this shot off. this is really a pretty powerful place when one thinks about what happened here. who wandered these hallways and how long this place has withstood time
through all the earthquakes, bombings and bullet holes, but it has a dark history
who walked here through these hallways, were are the lions now, oh detroit.
access is limited where one can go, but i understand they’ve open up more areas than when we were there.
but i was looking for trees and the only thing growing here was grass
so i began to wander around looking for my usual………. this being more to my liking a stand of pine trees.
and of course here’s my honey smiling across the table at me during lunch. i wonder what she was thinking?
and silly me, yes i still have that shirt.
these images were taken with my canon 20d which has traveled with me and now remains as a back up camera to my 5d mll.
we did find some flowers later on the isle of Ischia in Sant’ Angelo italy, but my honey is still brighter
i wanted to write about some new flash triggers but so far haven’t really tested them completely but so far i am really impressed.
Tags: italy, roma, the colosseum
October 18, 2010 at 10:18 pm |
La vita bella!
November 9, 2010 at 3:51 pm |
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