Saturday 28 August 2010

Italian Days
Before the Thunderstorm


A Steeple,
palm trees, grape vines

A Village Lane
in the early afternoon
of a sultry late August day

Saint Mary
in the village church

Sunflowers
spilling over the fence,
waiting for the summer storm
to break lose

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The sulfurous atmosphere
before the thunderstorm

was photographed
27 August 2010
in a village in
Friuli–Venezia Giulia
Italy

Photographed and
© 2010 by Merisi


18 comments:

  1. I can feel that bright, sultriness!

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  2. Wonderful captures, Merisi!

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  3. Saint Mary looks so benign...in her blue robe, with the fresh ferns...she'll definitely withstand the storm!

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  4. It seems as if I am there with you in that sultry weather on that little lane...will we be seeing raindrops here soon?

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  5. Very nice views, Merisi! What a charming atmosphere in the village!

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  6. Oh, I miss it. Bella, bella. (Giulia the Gattina is sulky. She wants to go & I told her she has to write her memoirs--or at least dictate them to me--so we can afford it.)

    ciao-meow, Merisi.

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  7. Wonderful. love the one with the Virgin

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  8. I love the little tufts of green around the bottom of the electricity poles.

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  9. Very lovely captures and something so familiar about your sunflowers. Merisi, just this morning I showed my husby my new screensaver. It was taken yesterday morning and it is of the back of a sunflowers. I told him that the back was just as interesting as the front and that I loved their leaves. Then I saw your entry and had to smile, creative minds.... Chow~

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  10. I"ve missed your lovely photos, they are so calming...so glad to be back in blogland and amongst good friends...I won't be neglecting you again!!!!
    hugs
    Sandi

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  11. A different light, softer, suffused, but your pictures are just as enchanting.

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  12. Honestly?
    Looks a lot like Austria to moi...
    U sure U left home?
    Hmmm...

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  13. Thank you for all your wonderful comments, I cherish them all! Sandi, so good to hear from you again, I was afraid a South Carolina alligator had taken over your computer and wouldn't let go online anymore! ;-)

    Paris Breakfasts:
    I am sure. Definitely Italy. Near the Adriatic Sea. I travelled all together 2,500km in five days, after all! ;-)

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  14. P.S. to Carol, Paris Breakfast:
    You'd be hard-pressed to find palm trees and a homestead like the one in the bottom picture in Austria. ;-)

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  15. Another intriguing place -- love that first shot especially.

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  16. Hello! Have you find Lena (sous le figier)in Italy?
    See you soon!

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