Rocco Galatioto, nice photos and good food

Dried chick peas [calia] and salted pumpkin seeds [simenza] are standard fare for the festa del ventuno. The feast of the 21st of August. These is truly traditional food that preceded all the present chips.

Poated without comment. Me and Marcy this spring. Taken by a tourist.

Yes I do and it will be a long time until then. Too bad. The 13-35 F2.8 L lens was used.

My woods, albeit small, in Pennsylvania, on a gorgeous fall day. Shot with the 16-35 F 2.8 L Canon lens.

In the park near my home there are well utilized bocce courts whose players are undounted by the elements. Unless it rains hard they will play. on some of the coldest days, they are there without gloves. This shot was taken with the Nikkor 70-200 F2.8 lens.

In a recent post I stated that the New England Protestant ethic had beaten the bauhaus movement in the ideal that form follows function. This old bicycle at the Northampton Museum shows this. Made late in the 19th century, it has a very appealing modern design whose simplicity is it's true beauty.

This is Tennessee William's Italian style villa south of Groton Connecticut on the sound. It is a wonderful place with superb gardens. The location is absolutely wonderful. It is now a state park and it is worth a visit that includes use of the beach.