Photoset: a taste for tiding over

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Being the good Canadian girl that I am, I want to apologize to my readers for going MIA. Life has been intensely hectic lately, though happily all for great reasons. I have moved out of my mother-in-law's house! Hip hip hurray! And I'm totally in love with the new place. But I've also been working 60-hour weeks, not counting days off to set up and move in. Plus raising a kid! So, yeah, my writing has had to fall by the wayside. I have so much I want to express, it's killing me not to be able to use this outlet right now. Fortunately I'm still working with a lot of words--just not my own. And I'm doing some wonderful field trips: Padua, Tarquinia, Chianti, with Venice, Turin and Naples still to come! So here is a taste in pictures of where I've been lately (since I haven't been here), to tide you over till I come back, which goddess-willing will be soon.

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Last day we spent in our bathing suits, in early September.

I know how she feels.
Dragonboat racing on the Arno at sunset.
Italian love graffiti in San Marcello Pistoiese

I've started a new collaborative Tumblr called Italian Love Graffiti. Please contribute!

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Some before pictures of the new place. Can't wait to show some after ones. I'm still working on final touches.

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Planning out the picture wall.
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One of my jobs takes me to Pisa regularly.

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And in the dozens of times I've been there, I've never before noticed this marvelous Romanesque capital at the back of the tower:

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Padua back street.
Tomb display at the Etruscan museum in Tarquinia.
Hallowe'en fun.

 My colleague and I did not even plan to match as Hansel and Gretel.

My lovely adventurous boys.
From the Castello di Verrazzano winery in Chianti.