September 13, 2011
The single most important thing that determines the start of the day is breakfast. So let’s skip the croissants and coffee and eat something real. It was a cloudy Monday morning, the streets were empty and slightly chilly, we stopped by a local enoteca and ordered a bruschetta Margherita with a glass of white.
Breakfast in Sirmione. I'm not really the kind who photographs every meal, but this one just looked way too good to pass up. Note the fogged up glasses of chilled wine.
September 9, 2011
A long footpath runs along the east side of the Sirmio peninsula on which Sirmione is built. The lake is shallow near the shore and inhabited by variety of waterfowl. Somewhat surprisingly, the Italian swans and ducks overall looked very much like their Canadian counterparts we often see on the shore of lake Ontario in downtown Toronto.
After finally having lunch (the first meal since early breakfast we had before leaving Venice in haste), we took a very slow stroll along the lake shore, enjoying the mountains, the water, the birds and other animals, the lush vegetation, the ancient walls and buildings. It really is a beautiful place. It is nothing like Venice, but it’s completely and undeniably gorgeous. In retrospect, all the places we visited in Italy were very different from each other, yet they did seem to have something in common, too. Something subtly, but distinctly Italian.
Swans looking for some attention near the shores in Sirmione.
September 3, 2011
camerareviewsSeptember 1, 2011
The evening of August 24, 2011 brought a major thunderstorm to the Southern Ontario. While we were hiding inside, sipping tea and eating chocolates, our trusty D7000 was perched on a tripod on the balcony, faithfully clicking away in the face of rain, huge lightning bolts and roaring thunder.
This image is a composite of 7 separate photos taken within a single hour around midnight.
