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squid-man emerges from the shadows
We’d seen (and enjoyed)(and photographed) this market during the day. And then we got sage advice from Allison Scola*, who told us we needed to see it at night, too.
She was right: the daytime vendors of produce, fish, housewares, clothes, and everything you’d need gave way to outdoor cafes, lots of Aperol, interesting lighting, and of course, this graffiti person
Mercato della Vuccciria
Palermo, Sicily
photographed 8.31.2023
*If you are thinking about going to Sicily – and you really DO need to think about it – get in touch with Allison at Experience Sicily. Tell her I sent you**
**This is one of very, very few times dropping my name might work to your benefit. You should take advantage of it.
to move toward the light
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
piñata (fireball and advil)
There was a piñata for the little kids, a piñata for the teenagers, and a piñata for the grownups. Ours had Fireball, Tito’s Vodka, and Advil.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.24.2023
uneven usage
It makes me happy to know that more people scrape their bumpers up against that one marked space on the right than they do the other one.
Slaton, Texas
photographed 6.23.2023
like a swim-up bar, only with quesadillas
Those kids from yesterday’s photo moved on to having poolside quesadillas. Later, a soggy half-eaten quesadilla was plucked off the pool deck and thrown away. No one ever even missed it. As far as we know.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.24.2023
One Day | One Image 