I’m down to the holiday wire, sending this out on Christmas Eve, but as I race to finish the dusting (which I had about five months to accomplish) and Lino is wrangling the canoce (Squilla mantis) into pasta sauce and antipasto nibbles, I thought I would send a few Christmasy images from here.
Heartfelt best wishes to everyone for the end of 2020 and all of 2021.
Christmas fish-traps at the Rialto market. A festive sight for everybody, except the fish.There are so few gondolas to be seen in the canals — phalanxes of them have remained at their moorings for weeks on end — that this brave little red bow stood out like the brightest beacon of the holiday spirit.The good news was that it was probably the last day of school before the Christmas vacation. The bad news, obviously, was that it was so much earlier in the morning than he would have liked. Having his father nearby to haul his backpack clearly wasn’t enough.This was edgy — the bright sparks at Nevodi Pizzalab decided to create gifts-of-the-Magi pizza. They sound pretty good, but I’m uneasy that there may be something in the fine print of the catechism that would label this blasphemy. I just don’t know….. (Peperoni here are not spicy sausages, but bell peppers.)And speaking of the fish market, on Saturday there are also flowers there. It’s a little uncanny how she designed her shopping to complement her cart. Or vice versa.Sunrise always lifts my spirits, and I hope it does the same for yours. I have not done anything to the color here — this is how it was.
