How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer,wandering her cities and ascending her torrid hilltowns.
How much better to cruise these local, familiar streets,
fully grasping the meaning of every roadsign and billboard
and all the sudden hand gestures of my compatriots.
Quoted from Billy Collins' poem "Consolation"
Click on the picture
if you'd like to read
the whole poem!
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Photographed yesterday at noon
Park of Schloss Kittsee
District of Neusiedl am See
Burgenland
40 miles southeast of Vienna
Well thank you for that. I would never have guessed to click on the picture itself.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to show it to Nonna [she's Italian of course!]
Cheers
The great car that is English . . . I love Billy Collins. And your photo!
ReplyDeletea little game of hide and go seek, perhaps :) Cute!!!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE Billy Collins...and I thoroughly enjoyed reading the poem. Beautiful photo. So apropos.
ReplyDeletelovely as always ..:)
ReplyDeleteMADDY:
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome! :-))
Salutami la Nonna.
TUT-TUT:
Billy Collins, I love him dearly, besides all else, he always brings a smile to my face. ;-)
MY MELANGE:
The remarkable thing was, they were speaking English!
WILLOW:
Thank you!
A little poetic rebellion against the having to travel pressure, I'd say. *smile*
LAKSHMI:
Thank you! :-)
MADDY:
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome! :-))
Salutami la Nonna.
TUT-TUT:
Billy Collins, I love him dearly, besides all else, he always brings a smile to my face. ;-)
MY MELANGE:
The remarkable thing was, they were speaking English!
WILLOW:
Thank you!
A little poetic rebellion against the having to travel pressure, I'd say. *smile*
LAKSHMI:
Thank you! :-)
Made me smile :-)
ReplyDeleteThere's that orange and blue again.
ReplyDeleteLove this photo.
They look so little against those big old trees.
Maalie:
ReplyDeleteMe too! :-)
FREEFALLING:
The tall trees and the little guys, I liked that too.
Isn't it interesting how certain colours keep turning up, as if by magic? Not that they were not there before ... ;-)