Rocco Galatioto, nice photos and good food

The fall is rapidly dying out. Although winter is a month away, the foliage shots are hard to get now. This shot with the E PL-2 was taken in Juniper Valley Park, near my house.

I have posted photos from this lovely mountain town right on the north west corner of Sicily. A place full of history and also of mythological importance.

These two landscapes are also from the area around rapallo. It was an unusually cloudy day for April but it gave a nice feeling. In Italy sometimes you almost miss a cloudy day.

It's not what you expect to see in Italy but this golf course is in Rapallo in the region of Liguria. This is a very up scale area with the next town being Porto Fino and one of Italy's most beautiful area.

This lovely dog, Nana', is the mascot of the Genoa Football Club Oregina. [Soccer}. The name does not denote some drink but stands for the name of the neighborhood in Genova. She is one of the sweetest and most loved dogs around. Also very pretty.

Flowers are very central to Italian life. Windows, terraces and balconies are full of them. This terrace was shot in Genoa,

When things get difficult i.e. when photos are hard to find, I always turn to Venice, Here we see masks outside a store and a shot of Rialto.

Torino was the first capital of Italy, the second was Florence anf finally, after the Papal forces aided by the French were defeated on September 10, 1870, Rome became it's capital. This forced the pope to declare himself a prisoner of the Vatican. He should have remained one or better he should have bees sent packing to Avignon. But then Mussolini, needing the support of the Church, signed the Lateran Treaty and he basically gave away the store but enough of the History lesson.