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Sunshine Award

I have been given a "Sunshine award", by Emily at, "Discovering Flowers",, and Nancy at, "Her Art Nest",. Thank you so much for this award. Be sure to check out their wonderful blogs.

The rules for accepting this award are:
1. Put the logo on your blog or within your post.
2. Pass the award to 12 bloggers.
3. Link to the nominees within your post.
4. Let them know they received this award by commenting on their blog.
5. Share the love and link to the person whom you received this award.

So, here are 12 of my favorites. These blogs inspire and delight me with every post.

1. Old Paint
2. Cobalt Violet
3. Baroque Sicily
4. Dim Sum, Bagels, and Crawfish
5. Vintage Postcard Gallery
6. Vivian Maier-Her Discovered Work
7. Aglio, Olio & Peperoncino
8. Becoming Italian Word by Word
9. Rome Daily Photo
10. Venice Daily Photo
11. Lost in Sicily
12. Verona Daily Photo

Number 6

Ruin with Etna

I posted a photo of this ruin previously on my blog. It is a place I drive by regularly. This is a March view with snowy etna looming in the background.

Not far from Caltagirone

Snowy Etna

Hinterland

"It is not down in any map; true places never are." ~Herman Melville

Just a stand of trees along the roadside. Infrared light transforms the scene into something that calls to mind a fairy realm.