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June 28, 2009
Oh boy! I cannot zoom in what I am writing… ok, I can barely see what I am typing so I just hope it will make sense more or less.
No, I am not crazy. Oh… well, Actually I am quite crazy, but I am serious now: I cannot see well what I am typing, because I am doing it from my bed and the “cmd”+”+” isn’t working, so I cannot zoom in the characters… I guess I will survive. 
But, I left this blog for a too long time, and I don’t want it cries, so I decided to leave a few words.
I know quite nobody is visiting this site, but the site is still pretty new, I have to wait and hope, and “work”.
Well… working with photography is a kind of vacation for me… so, I can say that since tuesday I am on vacation.
The 23rd June 2009 I didn’t pass the test, well actually getting no more than 21/30 for me is so annoying, that I preferred to repeat, again, the test…I hate to repeat tests, but I know I can do more, a lot more. Too Proud? Probably. Surely?
Anyway, in the evening of the 23rd June, instead of just lying on my bed, crying and complaining I kept my promise to go to take pictures during a “social dinner” of a congress. The guests were university professors of maths coming from all over the world (more or less).
A weird thing? Yeah, but better than be lying on bed crying or drinking beer…even if I have never did the second and got no intention to do it.
I kept my promise to take picture even for the following 2 days, just for the attempt to “catch” in a shot each of those teachers, just for “par condicio”
I tried, I am not sure I have been able to do it. We’ll see.
Anyway, I don’t want to tell more, at the moment, about these last days.
For sure, I have met nice people, who I wish will give me the permission to show up their “portrait”.
For the moment I will just show what I saw after I took some pictures during a cofee break. Thanks Lord there was the sun and one of His creatures didn’t run away when I got close enough to get it:
Nothing special, humans had a “coffee break” few minutes before I took this picture of a butterfly is having its break… I thought it was kinda funny.
June 22, 2009
Tomorrow morning I have a spoken test. The subject is what we call “Laboratory of Physics II”, it’s about electronic stuff and a lot of other things that might be interesting but, for various reasons, passing this test, for me, become something of really difficult and annoying. (Just… I already tried to pass it in April…).
I don’t feel ready, but it’s ok.
I have to go ahead.I have to get these degree even if I regret I’ve chosen to study physics.
So, my old friend “sense of duty” made me studying today too, despite all the desire to go out for taking picture, or to go to the sea.
I have been reviewing stuff with the help of my boyfriend…and, I had a stupid problem in understanding a little thing, and this made me pretty upset.
Yeah, I am a very proud person…
By the way, I need to lie on a bed for a while, so at about 4 pm we went home but I asked to my friend to drive me home through the longest street but where I could see my Mt Etna
to which I shot picture from Catania port dock
That, I could see with the whole gulf
where it’s inserted, all while I was coming back home.
I hate to be living in Sicily, I feel like I hadn’t all the chances I could have in big cities… but I do love those “scenarios”.
They give me peace.
And when all those scenarios where going to disappear behind big buildings,… I found myself thinking about the gulf formation (I studied it at school) and that it has been made for us…
I thought about the fact that it gave a place where to love to thousands of people in history.
That it was just amazing.
I am not serene as I should be, I still feel I could have done more if I hadn’t felt so bad in the last months.
I don’t think I’ll get a good mark at the exam.
But I am sure I will be able to shot pictures at night (got to take pictures during a”social dinner” of a maths teacher congress)
and that my Mt Etna and my Gulf will be still there (well, hopefully or I would die…) even in the next days.
I promised to both of them to take a good pictures of them as soon as I can. I really need nicer pictures of them, the beauty I saw today isn’t in the pictures I am showing here
June 19, 2009
During the last days I have been spending my time studying and cleaning up the pictures on my pc.
Cleaning up my pictures is worse than cleaning up my room, and my room is really messy. Cleaning up is quite tiring. That’s why I have been considering the idea of turning off the computer at 11:39pm tonight.
That wouldn’t be a bad idea… but, it’s since I am 10 or so that I don’t really go to sleep before midnight.
It makes me crazy going to sleep early, and I wanted to work on a picture.
That is, for me, the equivalent of punching something… or, at least, I tell me it’s so because I would like to have a punch-ball in my room, but, if I get one:
1) My parents would get worried, really worried. 
2) My room is so small that I could sleep on it…mh, this makes me think that I could hang up my bed… but, my parent wouldn’t just “get worried”, they would call a psychiatrist
3) Once I punched one of those in a sport-stuff shop. Well, my hands wouldn’t agree the use of punch-ball. Darn!
So, it’s better if I keep playing with flowers pictures…
…that reminds me how messy is my flowers pictures folder, and
how much I wasted the blooming of this plant.
These plants have been blooming for months, but I have ignored it because “I had something else to do” (e.g. studying something I really don’t care about).
Yeah, I would like a punch-ball now…
But! If I consider how “quickly” I took this picture I can say it’s ok.
Simple one? Stupid one?
Maybe!
Some day I will find the courage to go out and take something like this picture I’ve take 3 years ago…
…hopefully something better.
Some day…
June 15, 2009
This afternoon I wanted to stay far from the city noises, so I went to study at my country house… but I had problems to sleep at night so I fell asleep after lunch…
After I don’t know how much time my boyfriend woke me up saying “there are 2 hares in the backyard!”. I thought he was kidding in order to help me to get up despite the little pain I had…
So I just looked out the window and…
…he wasn’t kidding at all!
I asked him to give me the camera and I took a first picture (see above).
Than M1L helped me to get down the bunk, and I went to the backyard to try to take a closer picture of those animals, as always when they heard my steps they moved a little farther. I got closer again and, as always, they run away… but, this time one of the two run in the opposite direction so it actually stopped closer than it was before, and I took this picture:
I still wonder why that animal, in the attempt to escape from me, run toward me… it must be brave (or stupid?), or… a really “vain” guy!
At the end, why should I care? I didn’t want to hurt it and I got my picture… thanks to this “creative fugitive”
Probably it isn’t a “GREAT” shot, but since I got my SRL (4yrs ago) I wished I could take a picture of those little guys running all around me, and showing up only when I hadn’t the camera ready!
P.S. I am not sure it’s an hare… I am just guessing.
June 12, 2009
Today, at about midnight, I was laughing… I guess I can say I started the day with a laugh.
I was talking with my boyfriend and 2 friends, we were laughing. Nice thing.
1 hour later I asked to a friend to say the first thing he could think, and he said “12″. I needed it to find a casual picture to post here… I looked for P12 on my computer and found pretty nice stuff I could use… but, while I was editing a weird picture I took 5 or 6 ago, it came up to my mind that today is the 12th June. Well, in Italy, in USA not yet, but it doesn’t matter… BTW, weird coincidence, isn’t it?
For a moment I started to feel guilty because…. I started with a laugh the day of the second anniversary of one of my best friends’ death. I felt mean and insensitive.
So, I decide to seek for a picture to do a post for him, for this day… something of nice, something of sweet, but…
I saw this one:
…and when I read the title I smiled and laughed for a few secs… Who knew him, or who knows me enough to have been talking about him for a little while, can surely understand the reason . [hint: just focus on the peach form for a few secs]
And I like to think that is thanks to this friend, who died 2 years ago, that I spent the last 120 minutes of my life smiling and thinking about how lucky I am to have my boyfriend, my family, and some few good friends beside me… and it doesn’t matter how mean can be other people.
That somehow he saw how sad and upset I have been in these last months and he asked God if he could remind me about the good things in my life, as he used to do when he was alive.
For example, when someone in my family dies I use to spend the whole night awake online… talking with friends. And in July 2004, when my almost 92yo grandma died, my friend was here listening to me, and when I complained with him about going to the funeral because I couldn’t the typical stupid sentences that people say at the funerals, he just asked me to remind something of nice about my grandma and try to tell it when people started to talk about her at the funeral. He said that it was what he had done for his father’s funeral about 20-25 years before.
I have never spent a lot of time with this grandma so I could not think of nothing except that she used to call me “palummedda” (=little dove) as many grandmas in Sicily refers to their granddaughters, and that she did it even few days before falling in a kind of coma and die in a few days.
When I told him this, he just said:”See?”.
So I am think he deserves I remember him for the thousands of nice and good things he did for me, even in his last e-mail…
Thanks DB from your SP! 
P.S. Today it’s white.
June 11, 2009
Should I envy him/her?
I wish I could go to the sea everyday when it’s so hot outside!
But, I want to consider what’s good in my life … funny-sweet-nice sparrows’ shows can be one of the good ones, don’t you think so?!
June 10, 2009
I promised a picture for yesterday, I didn’t keep the promise because these are busy days…
I will have busy days for the next 10-12 months, or probably for the rest of my life, but, I do my best.
So, here I am posting something of “easier” than what I wanted to create.
As easy as dropping the pen, and run to go on your balcony just for a few minutes.
As easy as looking up to the moon in the sky and taking a simple, probably low-quality, picture of it…
…a show that soon or later catch any human’s eyes…
And that can let imagination run fast and making you seeing a big eye in there, or the moon rolling down the little cloud-slope, or a kind cloud offering to the moon a comfortable place to rest, or…
“It’s getting too late, I have to come back to study!”
And while coming back to study you see your mother watering plants, and you cannot avoid to yell : “Hey mom, did you see the moon?”
Did you?
June 8, 2009
…mumble…
2 consecutive shots about “someone drinking something”…
….I start thinking that my subconscious is thirsty…
…but, who cares? It is so nice to be watching at them eating, than “jumping” till the “dish of water” and drinking,
and then…
…well, I will show you tomorrow what they do after they drink
P.S.
No, water is not laced with alcohol!
June 6, 2009
or…weird friends and relatives.
I do my best to take nice shot of sparrows, butterfly, flowers and so on…
An afternoon, after lunch, my boyfriend laughed at looking an old “doll” in my country house, because it was with the head bended and a bottle (of water) beside him… he said:”If it was a bottle of vodka it would have looked like it’s drunk”.
I was lying on my bed relaxing… he was sitting beside me…as soon as he said what he said I just jump up from the bed, run to mom yelling: “Do you have a bottle of Vodka?”… She knows I ask weird things and I would never get drunk (a glass of wine is enough to make me feel dizzy) and she said: “No, but there is something of alcoholic in the cupboard…”
I took a bottle of Brandy (on left) and one of Whiskey ;D
The weird thing is that everyone liked the picture… my parents too (they are usually quite “cold” about photography…).
They really liked something I did just for fun! -_-’
Weird funny world! ;D
June 3, 2009
Good things happens, often… we just have to focus on them!
You may, eventually, take a picture of something of nice that you have the chance to see…
You can do it just for fun or for the personal pleasure to preserve the memory of such a cute thing…
Than can happen that a friend send you a message via cellphone saying: “Hey! I have just read about this photographic contest… why don’t you try?”
The pictures are already available, you have just to have them printed…why shouldn’t you try? It cost nothing.
And then can happens another pleasant thing, the woman in the shop where you go to have your pictures printed reminds of you because she liked the cat picture. And then, you just have to let your mind fly back to 10 months before, when that woman, about 10years older than you, asked you the permission to see the picture with the black cat…
And she asked you with such a sweet smile and a light in her eyes that are typical of those well-mannered children who ask for the permission of doing something (that, you know, it isn’t bad).
And you cannot stop thinking about the sentence: “[...] unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven”… and how it can comes true just looking at the Beauty of this world.
And few days later, happens another nice thing… your boyfriend spend a whole afternoon of his life to let you reach the place where you have to leave the pictures for the contest.
And few weeks later, while you are going to get furious because it’s not clear where you have to go to listen to a lecture, your cellphone rings, you don’t know who is calling but you answer… and someone tells you “Are you miss L.?”…and after you confirm your identity he keeps on saying: “I am the president of the E. cultural association, I am calling you to tell you won the first prize…”. At the end of the call you thanks, and then you spend the rest of the morning thinking:”What!? I won something? It’s incredible!”.
And it’s then that all your friends and relatives who knows about the news cannot stop smiling and enjoy the nice event with you!
And if with those money you can finish to pay your iMac to your parents (who paid in advance), if you can contribute to buy a new laptop to share with your boyfriend (laptop for which you were already saving money), if you can buy a little present to the friend who told you about the contest, and if you can give a little help to another one…who is, now, helping you even if he doesn’t know your plans… all with just those 500€…well, trust me, winning becomes just a background of a series of wonderful aspects of your life, as friendship and love. These are all “things” that you cannot put in just a picture with your camera, but that can make you go to sleep smiling.
And if you won the the same contest that one of your relatives read about, but didn’t want to tell you about it in order to avoid you waste your time with such an useless thing as photography… well, the thing feels a lot nicer! ;D
I love to talk about love and friendship, especially on Wednesday
