Charity auction -- for earthquake victims

53 works of art will be auctioned off in Perugia this January 14, 2017

 with proceeds going  to the earthquake victims here in Italy. 

One of my paintings will be present. 

Oh boy, Jet Lag!

Jet Lag is a funny thing,

 but not that funny the day before Christmas

, when all through the house not a creature

 is moving except for those who have jet lag.

Yesterday I went for a well-needed nap, late, at 4pm. At 8pm I found the lights on in the hallway and thought "Why didn't my husband close the door while he gets ready for work now at 6.45am!?" Then my hand felt that I had jeans on....WHAT?...I thought...Jeans on for sleeping all night???

Only then did I realize that it was 8 and he had come home from work and I had slept four full hours after being back from the USA for a bit over a week. What a lot of confusion!! Where AM I and what am I doing at all these strange hours?

So, friends, observers of my blog, people far away, and others in and on my timezone.

Travel is wonderful, travel is marvelous, but it can do strange things to our inner clock.
Here it is 5.15am in Italy, and 8.15pm in the States where I just came from. Today is a fun and busy day, daughter will arrive from another Italian city, and tonight a big wonderful meal at my relative's house. Tomorrow a nice meal here, the house to be straightened up and food cooked but boy oh boy....I am going to be tired with all this jet lag....

Hello, goodby, good morning and good night to you all!

Umbria Una Foto al Giorno

During the last year there has been a lot of attention given to a page on Facebook, Umbra-Una-Foto-al-Giorno (Umbria, one photo each day).

Photographers have posted photographs taken in the Umbrian regione, from stunning panoramas to details of typical scenes in the towns of Perugia, Norcia, Trasimeno Lake, etc.

Hundreds if not thousands of photographs were posted, and a selection of the best of these photographs, 365 of them, were presented at Perugia at Sant'Anna Church a couple of months ago.

Now, the final book of these words, plus one photograph making them 366 has been published and presented just yesterday, Dec 17, 2016 at the stunning Nun Relais Spa in Assisi, during a presentation of the event in which all proceeds of the book will go to the people who have recently lost everything during the earthquake in the area of Norcia.

The following are some photographs from both the presentation at Sant'Anna months ago, and yesterday's presentation in Assisi. Here also is my photograph taken on the stairway of the Acquadotto in Perugia of a bicyclist who I caught while he courageously pedaled downwards on this famous landmark of Perugia.

The cover of the pubblication of the 366 most beautiful photographs of the

 year chosen on the Facebook page "Umbria Una Foto Al giorno"

Sant'Anna, Perugia -- initial presentation of the 365 photographs chosen 

as best of the year during Umbria Una Foto Al Giorno

My photograph of a bicyclist going down one of the well-known landmarks
of Perugia, l'Acquadotto

 Nun - Relais Spa in Assisi and presentation of the book of

 photography Umbria Una Foto al Giorno

From left Marco Romoli, Marco Cozzari, Rubens Piovano, Silvio Aguzzi, Riccardo Regni

 Francesco Fofi with Giancarlo Micarelli on the screen via skype,

 Silvio Agazzi and Robens Piovano

Silvio Agazzi and Rubens Piovano taking a photograph of the public

Rubens Piovano presenting the event and Fabio Paltrinieri