Reposted
Reposted - Bits and Pieces III
(The last time I posted entries in Venice I over-wrote this so I am reposting because I want to have it as part of the story. I will add to it as I get a chance.)
Things I will write about from home:
1. The elegant baroque dinner at the Sesani Palazza
2. A week-end lino-cut workshop with Treviso sculptor, Achillle Costi. Seven artists working in Lili’s studio in the house where author, George Sand lived in the 1830s. On the second floor, above an intersectgion of two canals we were serenaded all day by gondaliers who were entertaining their tourist passengers. If they were going one way we heard a rich baritone voice version of “Amore”. If they were going in the other direction it was accordion music. It was like being in a 1930s movie.
3. Sunday afternoon Mass in San Marco Cathedral – with organ music and incense. Not a museum but as it was intended – as a church.
4. Living daily life with bells as background music. Especially the clunky, rather unmelodious bells of San Martino Church at our back door which announces the day at 7 am. The bells of three churches in the area of our Italian classroom pealed the Angelus at Noon. And, then the fantastic bells from the camponile in San Marco Square everyday around 5:30 PM.
5. Have the famous cats of Venice disappeared? All we see are dogs. Dogs everywhere, all breeds, colors and sizes live in this concrete world. Jim started taking pictures of dos soon after we arrived. “Dog alert” will send him off and away on the heels of a new dog. Once mean hulk of a black dog, - saw Jim approach with his camera before his face. The dog rose up on his hind legs and bared ferocious white fangs. His petite mistress snapped the red leash and reined him in.
(The last time I posted entries in Venice I over-wrote this so I am reposting because I want to have it as part of the story. I will add to it as I get a chance.)
Things I will write about from home:
1. The elegant baroque dinner at the Sesani Palazza
2. A week-end lino-cut workshop with Treviso sculptor, Achillle Costi. Seven artists working in Lili’s studio in the house where author, George Sand lived in the 1830s. On the second floor, above an intersectgion of two canals we were serenaded all day by gondaliers who were entertaining their tourist passengers. If they were going one way we heard a rich baritone voice version of “Amore”. If they were going in the other direction it was accordion music. It was like being in a 1930s movie.
3. Sunday afternoon Mass in San Marco Cathedral – with organ music and incense. Not a museum but as it was intended – as a church.
4. Living daily life with bells as background music. Especially the clunky, rather unmelodious bells of San Martino Church at our back door which announces the day at 7 am. The bells of three churches in the area of our Italian classroom pealed the Angelus at Noon. And, then the fantastic bells from the camponile in San Marco Square everyday around 5:30 PM.
5. Have the famous cats of Venice disappeared? All we see are dogs. Dogs everywhere, all breeds, colors and sizes live in this concrete world. Jim started taking pictures of dos soon after we arrived. “Dog alert” will send him off and away on the heels of a new dog. Once mean hulk of a black dog, - saw Jim approach with his camera before his face. The dog rose up on his hind legs and bared ferocious white fangs. His petite mistress snapped the red leash and reined him in.
