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Posted on May 30, 2008 @ 6:25 pm by massimo | Filed under: ancona, another green world, blog, news, wordpress

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I have been visiting once upon a time, the little natural reserve of “Ripa Bianca”, just a few kilometres from home, on May, the 25th. It is a very  little area, sponsored by Italian WWF , bordering the river: actually an ideal spot for bird watching.
And I was trilled by watching, just befor sunset, a magnificent couple of herons flying slow and steady: a mother heron with its baby.

Illustration Friday’s topic is: baby

moody blues…

Posted on September 29, 2007 @ 3:49 pm by massimo | Filed under: ancona, blog, food, swimming, wordpress

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Summer time is over, at last. I’m just coming from the beach: I dared once upon a time cold October waters and took my last swim. I’m almost frozen and now I don’t want to go out, I am not in the mood…The blues you know, the moody blues is always taking me over a little, in autumn…
Now I know that I am going to find myself often watching the clouds running in the sky, and the rain cracking the branches upon my window… And when it happens, I can’t find anything better than eating some bizarre oriental dishes, which invariably get the power of defying my subtle sort of melancholy…

Illustration Friday’s topic is: the blues

sailing ships…

Posted on November 18, 2006 @ 12:18 pm by massimo | Filed under: ancona, blog, fun, people, ukiyo-e, wordpress

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My grandfather was born in 1898. In his younger days he watched more than once the sailing ships at anchor in our hometown harbour. In his spare time he enjoyed oil painting, wasn’t so bad a painter and sailing ships where among his favourite subjects. According to my mother, his daughter, I was then a rather scornful kid and it seems that my grandfather only had the power to cool me down. In the memories of my childhood there is actually a beautiful drawing of a Spanish galleon that he presented me once. That valuable paper got lost somewhere, but sailing ships has been the number one subject of my early doodles too, (perhaps because of the Mendel’ Laws ), indeed a real obsession! So this is my personal thanksgiving to my old dear relative who died in the early seventies. And maybe this imaginary vessel of mine somehow correlates with the anchoring of the Mayflower at Cape Cod…

Illustration Friday’s topic is: Thanksgiving

 

seadogs

Posted on October 14, 2006 @ 5:31 pm by massimo | Filed under: ancona, blog, fun, people, wordpress

October is here again. The warm early autumn sun still shines, yet behind a thin layer of fog. The fog is going to take over the coast by mid-November, getting thicker and …

submarines

Posted on April 29, 2006 @ 11:00 pm by massimo | Filed under: ancona, blog, books, fun, wordpress

Maybe I could have submit half of my blog for “under the sea”! I might add something else about because I’m thinking of submarines. When I was a kid I use to go …

spring

Posted on April 1, 2006 @ 5:19 pm by massimo | Filed under: ancona, beach, blog, india, travel, wordpress

Spring has broken here since a few days. Spring means to me early and unrequired raisings. There’s nothing to do: as soon as the bright light of dawn filters from the outer world into my …

holidays

Posted on August 15, 2005 @ 10:12 am by massimo | Filed under: ancona, blog, food, fun, swimming, wordpress

 
Aug.15. What a mess! Summer holidays in Italy and everybody goes swimming! Even myself who braved the oceans…eh, eh, now braves crowdie beaches and dangerous local species, such as bunches of kids restlessly jumping into the water, and sun burned skin-divers who frantically crop tons …