Gayle Brennan Spencer – sending random thoughts to and from South Austin
We did not have to walk very far out of our apartment to realize we were in trouble. The camera was clicking away way too often.
Everywhere you turn in Budapest, the architectural details leap out at you. Walking her streets is totally entertaining.
These represent a first installment from a pair of boulevardiers.
Roaming Bologna at a fast pace seemed impossible – so many things demand attention.
Postcards from last summer demand attention even as I launch a new trip. One of the things I wanted to bring home was the leaf design for downtown tree grates.
Wandering under the miles of sheltering porticos lining the streets of Bologna, it is easy to miss the wonderful attention paid to the architectural details a floor above. Bolognese architecture does not treat windows as merely functional holes in the wall filled with glass, but as sculptural artistic expressions.
And, yes, that is the Mister who slipped into Edward Hopper’s plain-old-American-style-windowed “Second Story Sunlight” at a major retrospective of the artist’s works at Palazzo Fava while we were in Bologna. The contrast between the architecture surrounding us in Italy and the slices of Americana portrayed by Hopper made us cast our eyes upward with even more appreciation.
Postcards from Barton Springs 