beautiful
June 1st, 2012
white chocolate cheesecake with strawberries
Cinderella and her Fairy Godmother
lovely study
cottage guest house
fairy hydrangea garden
recycled glass garden shed
colonial, exotic, art, all mixed up
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with an excellency of heart.
Henry Fielding
red!
eclectic living room
Rooftop garden in Sydney
May 30th, 2012
#56. Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino
“He who doesn’t fear death dies only once.”
Giovanni Falcone was an Italian magistrate who specialised in prosecuting the Sicilian Cosa Nostra. He was killed by them, together with his wife and three of his bodyguards, by a 350 kg dynamite explosion placed beneath the motorway. He had created the Anti-Mafia pool because he knew that you die when you’re left alone, so he decided to fight. In 1992 they killed both him and his closest friend Paolo Borsellino: both shared provenance from a rather poor area of Palermo, had careers as Antimafia magistrates knowing that they were surely bound to die, but still doing their jobs, and their duty, in the best way they could. With equally sad fates they were killed in particularly audacious bomb attacks in 1992, the first in may, the last in july (counting every day from Falcone’s death because each one, he knew, could be the last of his life). In recognition of their efforts in the anti mafia trials, their memory was honored with the Italian Golden medal for civil valor. Also, the pair were named as heroes of the last 60 years in the November 13, 2006 issue of Time Magazine.
damaged places #14
Estense castle, Ferrara
damaged places #13
Santa Maria in Vado, Ferrara
