You may recall the breathless excitement that I brought back from my trip to Sicily early last fall.

I am still breathless when I think about it, so this starts a week of photos from that trip.

This is the most typical of typical Sicilian street scenes: narrow streets paved with worn-until-they-are-shiny stones, close-set buildings that block out a lot of sun (until they don’t), graffiti on the walls, laundry (often) hanging from balconies. And on and on.

(I guess the only thing in this photo that’s not typical is that the street doesn’t have pedestrians/cars/motorbikes sharing the space.)

Palermo, Sicily
photographed 8.31.2022