Ruby Tuesday and a blogging pause

Ruby Tuesday

This is a shot from last May. The kitesurfers are not allowed here again until October, when most of the swimmers are gone.

I will be gone for about three weeks as of tomorrow, coming back in early September. I have no scheduled posts since I won't have time to visit and I believe in blogging interaction.  We are flying into Chicago and will be with dear (non-blogosphere related) friends in the good ol' Midwest.  Enjoy your summer , do a little dance and thanks for dropping by!

white on the beach

Macro Monday

This beautiful white flower grows on the near-by beach, a dune plant...Again, any help to identify it will be greatly appreciated! It looks like some sort of a  Daylily, I found a list of salt tolerant flowers here.

Update:   Thanks to Amoeba, via quilly, who kindly pointed out this is a Pancratium maritimum, the Sea Daffodil.Amoeba also shared a link to these plants growing wild on Crete.

four years ago...

(This is an adaptation  of a post published four years ago...!)

A short visit to the small town of Cicagna, near Genoa, in Italy. A tiny, beautiful, quiet place with an ancient Roman trail...!

And amazing trompe l´oeil:

The local church. I was told this is the typical construction of the Liguria churches: white Carrara marble and the local (more affordable) black stone.

This is across the street from the church. All windows closed because of the heat wave!

And then I heard the story of one of the most famous Cicagna daughters: Rosa Maria Segale (1850-1941), better known as Sister Blandina, an Italian nun who moved to the US with her family at an early age and wrote of her life in the American west of the nineteenth century. Sister Blandina Maria Segale fought against great odds , including encounters with the renowned outlaw Billy The Kid. It is a fascinating story, a short biography  can be found here.

I am joining Window Views.

C is for cathedral and Compostela

Images via Wikipedia

I am the kind of person who only  goes to church on vacation to admire the architecture and details. Back in 2006 I visited the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela , situated in the city of the same name in Galicia, Spain. The cathedral is the reputed burial-place of Saint James the Great, one of the apostles. It is the destination of the Way of St. James , a major historical pilgrimage route since the Middle Ages.

The cathedral was completed in 1211. The city and its cathedral, churches and monasteries were renovated during the Baroque period (17th century) to give them the appearance they have today. For a bit of history click here.

There are people at 6pm for a sense of scale...

And a detail showing the Apostle St James (Santiago).

ABC Wednesday

C is also for coffee, how about some??