SUNDAY 15 AUGUST 2010
Today is the Day of Ascension - the day Mary rose to heaven without dying...or so they tell me.
Very busy day today. Or perhaps just long. Went to see the Boboli Gardens (I advise packing water and a snack...I learned the hard way) and the Porcelain Museum. The gardens were largely gravel, mostly switchbacks dotted with sculpture. There were smooth, antispherical marble modern art pieces hidden in shady areas. The porcelain museum had also been overrun by modern ceramic work, sitting in glass cages just like their noncontemporaries. It was like going into a chocolate factory and finding chocolate flavored broccoli.
Just outside of the Piazza was a string of painters. I purchased three wonderful ink and watercolors from a dark haired Italian with shocking blue eyes. I told him that I was in Italy with a class of weavers. He told me to come back to see him without the class.
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