If you were up and watching from the high ground, the Roman sun appeared at 06:55.
No matter how low you may have been… no comment… the Roman sun set at 19:35, 5 minutes after the place where I pick up amazon packages. I am experimenting with having them delivered to my place, but years in Italy before such things has left me a little … jaded.
The Ave Maria Bell is listed in the 20:00 cycle.
Yesterday a French priest brought a gaggle of school girls in cure birretes. I label this shot with the pastor in the middle, either rosa inter spinas or spina inter rosas.
The hideous eyesore in front of the Chiesa Nuova for the Metro Station. I’m guessing… 10 years?
Walking to Gammarelli today, I realized that event the lions know that it is artichoke season. Okay… okay… it’s a pine cone. Same thing…. not… sort of… not.
Here’s a serious lion with a pine cone.
I went to Gammarelli today to sort out an order I put in last October and nothing was done. Today it got sorted. I wanted a red pianeta made with their “griffon” fabric. And now they have wider “column” trim in gold, which will be spectacular. Some of the over flow from the fund raiser will take care of the difference in the elevation of the trim.
Meanwhile, in the window, a rare cotta gricia.
But look at that beautiful lace. What an amazing thing to know that women made these things by hand, patiently, lovingly. Lost skills? I think in Belgium they are preserved.
I had another surprise today, of which I will write when the time is right. Words are lacking now.
For this Palm Sunday, European “Daylight Savings has kicked in. We lost an hour, but we are back in usual sync with the USA.
The sun was up before I was, at 05:58 and it will set before I will, though I’d rather like to beat it, at 18:33.
This morning the sun broke the Roman horizon at 05:59.
