Italia.

[duccio]

Here is a photo I took in Florence when I was there in 1982. I had gone to the Basilica of Santa Croce to see the sights there and was walking back through alleys near the Arno River. I saw an old man walking ahead of me and imagined I was him sometime in the future. (I still have many years to go luckily, in case you were wondering, which I suppose you weren't.)

marstokyo is going for a visit in Italia soon, and so I got this down to photograph and post along with a comment in her journal. It's in a plexi box frame, 5x7, dusty. I put it in some raking sunlight from the kitchen window. Looks kinda cool. Taken with my trusty old (retired) Canon 35mm SLR.

Street in Florence near Santa Croce.
I'd very much like to live on a street like this, if I resided in Florence, or anywhere.
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Comments

[shinsetsu]

That is a cool picture! It should be a poster too -- a huge one for over the sofa!! That street reminds me of some people I knew who lived right at the base of a mountain -- something about the tallness blocking the light.

[shinsetsu]

Oh, and I was wondering--but I can't tell how old that man is anyway. lol And it doesn't really matter. :)

[duccio]

64. Almost dead. Might as well be, now you know. Not grumpy or dull though - well, maybe dull.

[shinsetsu]

Almost dead at 64? I hope not. I had a friend from home who liked Florence best of all the cities he had been to.