This little beauty, Fiat Cinquecento, in what happens to be in pale yelllow which is one of my favorite colors for this car, needs no introduction.  She is the stuff my dreams are made of!

I don’t think I can ever get over (and I don’t want to anyway) the delight if feel every time I see a lovely small clementine, hand-wrapped in tissue paper! It just makes me happy to see the care given to such a tiny, common, but still lovely, everyday object.

Is this one random enough for you?  It is a handsome print of an elephant that hangs in my loft here in Lucca.  I walk by it several times a day and it makes me smile and remember India.  I love elephants.  I wish they were cared for as well as the delicate clementines wrapped in tissue paper.  Would that they were so lucky.

How I spend some of my days and even some of my evenings.  But,  I don’t work all the time.  And, I don’t even think talking to handsome strangers in a bar (coffee shop here) should be considered homework, let alone work.  I put it in the fun category.

Time does continue to fly, as we are reminded by this hour glass with marble wings on a church monument in Florence.  Not even marble can slow down the flying of time. Carpe diem, people!

I had a lovely Valentine’s Day here in Lucca, thanks for asking! :-))))

Even though I am not at all religious, I still light a candle for certain loved ones lost, whenever I am in a Catholic church, which is actually pretty often.  The churches are repositories of architecture, sculpture, paintings, silver, gold and other objets. This particular day I lit a candle for my mother, my dad, my two grandmothers, and for my too-soon gone sister-in-law Melinda, lost almost two years ago. I feel the sting of her death pretty much daily.  The candles help me and if there is any possibility of such things, I hope they let my family know I am thinking of them.  Even if it doesn’t, it is a nice way to show some love.