Colorful day...

It's a beautiful day here in central Massachusetts.  Though we still have snow on the ground, the birds are singing and the snow is melting.  I like snow and winter but this seems to be a little early.  I'm really not complaining though because it is beautiful out and I learned a long time ago about the fruitlessness of complaining about something that I truly have no control over.

My knee seems to be getting better every day.  The major thing I am having a problem with is the fatigue.  Here I thought that by now I would have all my Italy pics gone through and edited and would be starting on other things I have ignored over the last couple of years but no!  I just can't seem to sit here long enough to get a lot done.  Oh, well...best laid plans and all that.

But going with this beautiful day, I decided to post some colorful pictures from our Italy trip.  These were taken at Villa Miragalli where we stayed.  A little of this and a little of that...

My hat likes Italy.

Italian fence...

Here's a little fence on the property of Villa Miragalli where we spent a heavenly week.  It kept us from falling into the sea after drinking that wonderful Italian wine.  Just one of the Villa's many charms.

LINKING TO FRIDAY FENCES.

More fun in Italy...

I said that I would be posting pics of the place we stayed on the Amalfi Coast in Italy, but truth is, I haven't been doing a lot of sitting at the computer because I'm not sleeping too well because of the knee.  But I did get to a few pics and will post them today.  Here are a couple of sea view pics I took right after we got there.  Nice  view, isn't it?  The second is a shot of a cruise ship passing by.  

This is a  photo of our good friend Sean who was with us on this trip.  Sean is the consummate host and is  so good at helping everyone feel at home.  One afternoon, Sean prepared a nice tray of cheese, salami and olives for an afternoon snack.

Sean picked up the first "tray" he found in the kitchen.  That stylish cheese tray just happened to be Greg's iPad.  We got a good chuckle out of it.  I guess that Apple has thought of everything including making this iDevice  do double duty as a serving tray.  Note, that Sean didn't skimp on the wine there.

How about a nice Italian sunset picture to end this installment?

Ciao! Scavenger Hunt Sunday…

My reentry into real life after our trip to Italy has been a bit on the busy side, so instead of driving myself nuts trying to find new things to shoot, I thought I would look at my pics from our recent trip there to see if I could find good entries for this week’s Scavenger Hunt.  Since I took over 1,000 photos, you wouldn’t think that would be much of a challenge and I will admit, there were entries that jumped out at me immediately for each prompt:  Orange or Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Faceless Portrait, View from the Top, Cozy and Stacked.  Here are my entries:

Orange for Breast Cancer Awareness Month:  or orange peel for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  

Faceless Portrait:  These are our friends Sean and Ellen, two of the eight of us who got together and rented a villa in Italy.  This villa called Villa Miragalli was just beautiful.  Here, Sean is standing at the edge of the infinity pool looking out over the Tyrrhenian Sea and Ellen is just enjoying the view.  I didn’t realize when I took the photo that the light at that moment would make the color of the pool reflect onto Sean’s back.  That’s an odd effect.

View from the Top:  One of the views from our villa.  This looks out toward Praiano, Italy, which you can see on the furthest peninsula.

Cozy:  That’s what I would call the boats they put you in to take you into the Blue Grotto in Capri.  I knew I couldn’t get in and out of the boat so I stayed behind but took this picture of Greg (far right), our friend Fred, the fellow who rowed them into the grotto and a young English woman whose mother also stayed behind.

Stacked:  This is Positano, Italy.  It is a truly vertical city and that gives the impression that these buildings are stacked on top of one another.  In reality, there are roads that run through the layers of buildings there.  Isn’t it beautiful! 

LINKING TO ASHLEY'S SISK'S SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY.