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April Full Moon
Hi everyone...
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Hi everyone...
Welcome to April's Full Moon post ..
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A little bit of artistic license here and I have transported La Bella Luna to La Bella Venezia... Hope you don't mind.. I know I've been an absent blogger lately and wanting to bring you the rest of my Venice post and the long awaited giveaway.. I thought I'd just combine the lot ...
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April Moon Notes
The moon is full Wednesday April 28 22:19pm [Sydney time]
The full moon is in the sign of Scorpio
April Full Moon Names: Full Pink Moon, Egg Moon, Full Fish Moon
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The Last Time I Saw Venice
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In my previous Venice post [here] I shared with you my 'First Last View' of Venice... The last photo from my first trip to Venice, and the difficulty to say goodbye and turn my face from the view, wondering if I would ever be lucky enough to see it again. Well I was.. that was 1993.. and this is 1996 and my second trip to Italy...
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After spending my first week in Rome with some work colleagues, we travelled together to Venice and spent a further week enjoying the delights of this treasure. My work colleagues were actually on their honeymoon.. haha.. yes that's right I went on someone else's honeymoon.. sort of.. haha.. More coincidence we had both planned our travels at the same time.. but suffice to say we stayed in different hotels and met up during the day to wander the alley ways and squares and discover all the nooks and crannies many tourists never visit. A wonderful few days getting lost in the atmosphere and beauty and hoping some of the magic may work it's way into our very being.
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Now this might sound crazy.. but when I booked my Venice accommodation, I purposely chose a tiny tiny attic room in a small pensione just back from St Marks Square.. When I say tiny.. well the head of the bed was situated at the top of the stairs.. so close I could lean out and touch the first stair... I had to sleep about face for fear of falling out of bed and tumbling head first down the stairs.. on top of this.. this room was the only access to the rooftop where the staff would regularly come through in the mornings to hang out the linens to dry.... So.. cramped ...no privacy... but.. I had access to the rooftop.. and therefore access to a secret world full of strange views and the beautiful rooftops of Venice.. Yes.. this was my purpose... all for the view.. Of course if I had zillions of dollars I might have preferred a view of the canal.. but my little rooftop hideaway idea paid off and this is the photo to prove it!!
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A bird's eye view of the domes and rooftops from behind Basilica di San Marco.. [low flying bird!]
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And the regular view.. taken from St Mark's Square [not that there is anything 'regular' about Venice]
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The Last View
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A few days later it was sadly time to leave Venice for the second time ... It was also goodbye to my Australian friends as I was off to spend a few days with my friend Paolo in Padua, before venturing off to Florence and two weeks of language school to prepare me for the rest of my Italian adventure . After picking me up from my hotel, Paolo and I slowly made that final walk back to his car.. I think he must have thought me a bit of a fruitloop really... Living so close to Venice it was an everyday thing for him to just walk off and not look back.. But for me it was agony.. My head was spinning and stomach doing flip flops ...I'm not sure whether it was angst to leave Venice or fear of starting out on the solo portion of my trip, but either way I was dragging my feet and when we reached the last bridge... the famous Rialto... and it was here I stopped.. pulled out the camera.. and took my last view of Venice.. facing south down the Grand Canal... My Last Last View of Venice... and now my favourite Venice photo...
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The [Late]Blog Birthday Giveaway
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So that is the sad goodbye to Venice for the moment... and finally this leads me to my giveaway.. I hope you know how much I have enjoyed your friendship, encouragement and inspiration in my first year of blogging.. In recent months I've been asked a few times if I sell my 'artwork'. Well at present I'm not sure if or when I will go down that path.. It still feels oddly strange to put my work up for sale for the first time.. So toying with this idea.. I had some of my photos professionally printed.. a test run if you like. I cannot tell you how strange, exciting and surreal that felt.... As a result.. I decided I wanted to share some of these with you and thought a giveaway would be more suitable... ease myself into releasing my mania onto the world.. haha... So I have picked a few of my favourite prints.... and today offer them up for a giveaway... Both professionally printed on archive paper.. just like the big kids do.... [without the text and watermarks of course!!]
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So here they are ...
So here they are ...
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My First Last View
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[8x10" professional print]
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And the head spinning
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And the head spinning
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LAST View of Venice
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[10x10" professional print]
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Entry to the giveaway is open to all who comment on this post
[closes midnight Friday 7th May Sydney time]
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Three Chances to Win
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1 Leave a comment on this post
and if you'd like an additional entry
2. Leave an additional comment letting me know if you are a new or existing follower
3. Leave a third comment if you blog or post the giveaway button on your blog
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I will be having another Giveway very soon for Mother's Day...
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Thanks again everyone for all your encouragement.. and may my Last Views of Venice bring you the pleasure they have brought me... and to dream.... il Sogno!!!
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IMAGE SOURCE: .. ALL photography and artwork by me [being ruby©]
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