perfect, sunny day

What a gorgeous day it is!  Cloudless skies, cool breeze, full sun.  The sheets are drying out on the terrazza.  I’ve cleaned and mopped.  I’ve packed.  I’ve shipped a box.  (And realized, for the last time this trip, that no information found online regarding anything here is to be trusted without a call for confirmation.  The cheap way of sending books to the US?  Only possible from some post office near the airport.  If I’d gotten this far last week, perhaps I’d have done it.)

The light has changed so much in the last weeks.  The narrow alleys really accentuate the seasonal change of light.  The city is like a great celestial time piece.

Clean laundry put out to dry scents the entire calle.  That’s at least true here on the GIudecca, where the houses are mostly two stories and everything feels very small and close.

The campo near my grocery store was full of kids riding bikes overseen by some grandmas in chairs they’d pulled outside. The first time I tried to find the grocery I came through that campo –and thus from the back way.  The only obvious thing I saw was a shop front with three carrelli parked in front.  You never know, so I poked my head in.  Hairdressers.  Just around the corner is the Coop, with its big, bold signage.   Compare this to the Prix which is down the fondamenta near the Redentore, which has no outside signage, meaning it’s only visible when open.  I still wish I had a photo of that hairdressers with the carrelli out front.  It’s one of my favorite mental snapshots of this year.