More Dolce Vita!!!!! Venice!

Finding an easel stand along the canal....

There is so much beauty in Venice, even though it may be crumbly and wet and decaying....On the few days we visited, we would wander around to eat, jump onto water taxis, do lots of people watching...then Frank would take off to find a particularly interesting area where canals, sky, architecture and footbridges co-exist...and produced these delightful miniature painting "postcards" extolling Venice's particular brand of beauty.....

Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, 5x7"
  

Striped Gondola Poles denoting Family Name, 5x7"

Dogs allowed on the Vaporettos, if the captain has no objections.

Gorgeous Grand Canal,  Venice

Venice Canal, 5x7". sweet!

Proposal in action on random foot bridge in Venice..See the two figures huddled on the bridge? As we walked by, one guy proposed to the other...after the proposal registered in his brain, there was a nervous second while we all quickly looked at each other with panic....until he answered with great joy....
then I had to take a pic (so uncool of me, I know). 

Let it be known that squid ink pasta isn't just for eating. Jorgie drew her dad...

...and then mixed him up! 

 

This is as good as he got on this trip. Barely enough strength to join us for lunch...then he'd go back to bed. 

And Arlo barely survived a cold (his blood was in a lab being tested back in France) that got so bad on our final day that we walked him thru alleys, losing our way several times, thru the rain at midnight, to the emergency room, into a courtyard, filled with cats (yes, cats, all over, on the hospital grounds)...the doc checked his throat with his iPhone flashlight (um hum). Results showed a double whammy of mono and pneumonia. Solid rest and meds and food got him through, plus sleeping in his own bed helped too. If you see Arlo, ask him how he most likely contracted mono. It's a good story.