So this is not exactly a hot sauce or salsa nor is it a new picture. I took it back when I went to New Mexico about two years ago and actually posted it last fall on my blog. However because I have not been taking many pictures lately I decided I would re-post it because chilis are used in hot sauces and salsas.
The idea for this post came from a fellow when she introduced a new blog project on graffiti art. The pictures below are from an underground walking tunnel in Florence that I had been obsessed about visiting because I enjoy graffiti. Actually, I don’t just enjoy it, I have a slight obsession about it and really believe that it is art. Enjoy the pictures I took of this graffiti tunnel.
Pictures to give you an idea of how much graffiti decorated the tunnel’s walls.
The following are works of graffiti that I really enjoyed.
I’m really trying to post as frequently as I can, but that requires new pictures, which requires taking pictures, which requires sun, and I tend to be in class whenever the sun is out (Thank you 4:10 sun setting times!). So here I am posting a picture from this weeks Sunday Still. This picture is from a batch of pictures I took while I was home and still haven’t gotten around to posting. I will do my best to post more of them this week! I love the different textures in this picture: the roughness of the rock, furry looking quality of the frost, and the smoothness of the ice.
I’ve barely been back in the states a month and only at school a week. Although I have been back in the states for a period of time, I’ve had to do another round of readjusting by readjusting to school life such as living in a dorm, eating in a dinning hall, and having everything contained in a small campus. There are definitely things I have loved about being back at school, mainly spending a large amount of time with my friends who I missed dearly. But there are definitely things I still miss about Florence and being in Europe.
The thing I miss the most is taking pictures. Florence was extremely interesting because I was constantly in the middle of the city and then I would travel to other places. I would snap away excitedly, knowing because of the 1,000’s of pictures I took, I would be able to remember these places forever. But I really miss always having something to take a picture of because how many times can you take a picture of the same building covered in snow… I miss my inspiration if picture taking that seemed to be in full swing abroad. Hopefully, once I am readjusted that inspiration will return, it might require to leave campus, but I think it will come back soon.
And, man, am I glad I took a million pictures. Since moving into my room, I have placed about 60 pictures on my wall, most of which are from my fall abroad. I was looking at those pictures yesterday as I tried to do my art history reading and was thinking how I couldn’t believe I had gone to places I had always dreamnt about going to. It almost feels like a dream that I was there, but it’s a good thing I have the pictures to prove I went and remind myself I did it and that it’s no longer a dream that I went.
At first I didn’t know what to post for this challenge. I’ve been back at school and solely focused on readjusting and getting my credits transferred, room set-up, etc. However, I lucked out when my friend gave me the idea for this picture. We were walking to our dinning hall one evening and we saw this strand of ice-sickles. She said “That’s frightening” but I thought that they were gorgeous. So I am posting a picture of those ice-sickles to see people’s different reactions to them.
I rarely post pictures as part of my beer bottle project. However my collection continues to grow and I continue to post pictures. The following to pictures are pictures of winter beers: Great Lakes Christmas Ale and Sam Adams Winter Lager.
The Sam Adams Winter lager photo is similar to a previous one I posted of a Sam Adams Summer Ale. The composition of the two are similar and I think I am going to use that composition every time I photograph Sam Adams beers for my beer bottle photo project.
This is the first time I am posting a photograph of a Great Lakes beer bottle. The Great Lakes Brewing company is a local Cleveland Beer Brewing company and it is delicious. I strongly recommend trying it if you ever come across it. The bottle is posed with greenery from our Christmas tree to emphasis the holiday aspect of this beer, being a Christmas Ale.
I rarely reflected on my fall abroad on my blog while I was residing in Florence. However I stumbled upon this blog of a girl , Ginevra, who will be studying abroad in Florence during the spring, although on a different program. We began communicating and she asked me to do a small post for her. I urge all of you who follow my blog to check out her blog. She’s had a lot of insight already to the getting ready process, which was just has tiresome as being there for me. If you have followed my blog through the fall you might also enjoy hers because you might recognize the places she is writing about.
Buona fortuna Ginevra!
I had a little bit of a computer problem over the summer and in trying to fix it, I had to delete windows, only to reinstall it. In doing so I moved a lot of stuff off my computer and backed it up. While a lot I moved back onto my computer a lot of pictures I did not. The other day I was going through some of my stuff on my mom’s computer and discovered two folders I had forgotten about: a folder of slides from my nature photography class and a folder of pictures I had taken last winter on campus.
Food has been an often subject of my photos, so I was thrilled to see this weeks Sunday Still being the theme that of food. These pictures are not those that I have taken with my D 40, but with my point an shoot because I thought they looked yummy and I wanted to remember them. Enjoy my first post of 2010, just make sure to remember this is a computer screen and what you are seeing is not actually edible and is solely a picture.
This is my first full year posting (despite a few breaks in between) so I thought I would post the year in pictures. (It only looks long because there are a ton of photos.)
January: Big Snow Storm in Ohio pushes me going to Boston a day, so I took pictures
February: Travel to Boca Grande Florida with my parents and takes about 300+ pictures
March: The work picked up, it snowed, my friends and I made the most of it.
April: School ended, I went home, and my blog celebrated it’s one year old birthday
May: Worked hard and enjoyed the spring weather
June: Went to a wedding, got my ears pierced (long story), and had some more fun with friends
July: Celebrated my first Fourth of July in Nantucket and didn’t meet a bear
August: Finished my job, packed for Italy, our neighbor’s Scholar Garden was completed, and take some macro after rain pictures.
September: Arrive in Florence, travel a lot including the Almalfi Coast
October: Still in Florence, continue to travel to Venice, Pergiua and two trips to Paris (Fit mid terms in somewhere)
November: Still living it up Florentine style, travel with school trips and parents (Rome and Montepulciano where they shot New Moon!)
December: Leave Florence (I will return!), spend the holidays with the family, turn the big 2-1 and begin my bucket list.
