Day Fifty One

The dawn at sea is always gorgeous, as Gabriella North-West shows us.

Gabriella - Sanremo, Imperia, Italy - 8.00 am

Gabriella - Sanremo, Imperia, Italy - 8.00 am

Let me take you around during a typical day in Berlin. The weather is constantly changing -and the sky with it!

Chiara - Berlin, Germany - 8.53 am

Chiara - Berlin, Germany - 1.56 pm

Chiara - Berlin, Germany - 2.48 pm

Chiara - Berlin, Germany - 4.36 pm

And let's finish the day with Marisa's lights.

Marisa - Marmirolo, Mantua, Italy - 5.20 pm

Day Fifty

Unframed by poetry

A canvas of awe

[Nightwish]

CHIARA

Chiara - Berlin, Germany - 7.51 am

MAURIZIO

Maurizio - Sanremo, Imperia, Italy - 8.10 am

Maurizio - Ospedaletti, Imperia, Italy - 8.21 am

What's in a name?

That which we call a rose

by any other name

would smell as sweet.

[William Shakespeare]

MARISA

Marisa - Roverbella, Mantua Italy - 1.26 pm

The sun came through the branches of the tree above her.

[Alice Sebold]

GAIA

Gaia - Trieste, Italy - 2.40 pm

I really love fog. [...] 

It hides you from the world and the world from you. 

You feel that everything has changed, 

and nothing is what it seemed to be. 

No one can find or touch you any more.

[Eugene O'Neill]

CELENIA

Celenia - Castelfiorentino, Florence, Italy - 3.41 pm

Celenia - Castelfiorentino, Florence, Italy - 3.44 pm

The moon, in her chariot of pearl.

[Oscar Wilde]

ILARIA

Ilaria - Bologna - 3.49 pm

...distant views seemed to outlast by a million years the gazer

and to be communing already 

with a sky which beholds an earth entirely at rest.

[Virginia Woolf]

IRENE

Irene - Pietrasanta, Lucca, Italy - 5.10 pm

For my dreams I hold my life

For wishes I behold my night.

[Nightwish]

CELENIA

Celenia - San Casciano in Val di Pesa, Florence, Italy - 8.17 pm

Day Forty Nine

A pink sky greeted me this morning!

Chiara - Berlin, Germany - 8.05 am

Marisa's sky was cloudy, with a hint of music.

Marisa - Roverbella, Mantua, Italy - 9.09 am

Marisa - Roverbella, Mantua, Italy - 9.11 am

A wintery scenery for Celenia.

Celenia - Empoli, Florence, Italy - 10.16 am

And back in Berlin, soft clouds were floating through the sky.

Chiara - Berlin, Germany - 1.39 pm

Chiara - Berlin, Germany - 1.39 pm

Gaia's sky was definitely clear and intense.

Gaia - Trieste, Italy - 2.20 pm

Edoardo managed to catch the moon in the act of playing over the ski trampoline!

Edoardo - Asiago, Vicenza, Italy - 3.00 pm

Benedetta captured this beautiful sunset:

Benedetta - Trieste, Italy - 4.15 pm

Emanuela and Celenia were fascinated by all the lights around them.

Emanuela - Cervia, Ravenna, Italy - 4.50 pm

Emanuela - Cervia, Ravenna, Italy - 4.57 pm

Celenia - Empoli, Florence, Italy - 5.21 pm

Stella and Marco watched a very romantic sunset in Tasmania, where they're spending their honeymoon. Our best wishes to you ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤

Stella & Marco - Tasmania - Sunset

 Monica realized that night had fallen.
 

Monica - Berlin, Germany - 8.07 pm

Day Forty Eight

The last (busy) Friday before Christmas.

Marisa was expecting fog again, but the sky was clear when she left home in the morning.

Marisa - Roverbella, Mantua, Italy - 6.25 am

Mine was a crazy Friday, as I suppose it was for many. Looking at the sky always helps me ground myself.

Chiara - Berlin, Germany - 1.35 pm

Gaia's sky was clear and blue.

Gaia - Trieste, Italy - 4.00 pm

Marisa sent me a picture of lights in the dark. It made me want to wish her a good night, but we both had still so much to do!

Marisa - Valeggio sul Mincio, Verona, Italy - 5.36 pm

Have a very good last Saturday before Christmas, and don't forget to look at the sky! 

Day Forty Seven

Morning has broken.

[Cat Stevens]

EMANUELA

Emanuela - Cervia, Ravenna, Italy - 8.10 am

Emanuela - Cervia, Ravenna, Italy - 8.15 am

What is the nothing?

[Michael Ende]

MARISA

Marisa - Curtatone, Mantua, Italy - 8.28 am

But soft! What light from yonder widnow breaks?

[William Shakespeare]

CHIARA

Chiara - Berlin, Germany - 9.52 am

ILARIA

Ilaria - Lugo, Ravenna, Italy - 11.06 am

There are no rules of architecture

for a castle in the clouds.

[Gilbert K. Chesterton]

GAIA

Gaia - Trieste, Italy - 11.45

Gaia - Trieste, Italy - 2.15 pm

ILARIA

Ilaria - Massa Lombarda, Ravenna, Italy - 4.43 pm

CELENIA

Celenia - Empoli, Florence, Italy - 4.44 pm

The sky above our heads

was inky black.

[Daphne Du Maurier]

MARISA

Marisa - Roverbella, Mantua, Italy - 6.07 pm

Day Forty Six

The day begins to break, and night is fled,

Whose pitchy mantle over-veil’d the earth.

[William Shakespeare]

Please, let us all thank ENRICA, who was willing to get up earlier than everybody else to take a picture of this beautiful dawn!

Enrica - Asiago, Vicenza, Italy - Dawn

As a matter of fact, SERGIO was up early as well.

Sergio - Over Pisa, Italy - 7.00 am

Sergio - Over Pisa, Italy - 7.00 am

Sergio - Over Pisa, Italy - 7.00 am

The sky was brightly coloured over MARISA.

Marisa - Roverbella, Mantua, Italy - 7.52 am

And heavy clouded over GAIA instead.

Gaia - Trieste, Italy - 11.15 am

We had a bright day in Berlin, as you can see.

Chiara - Berlin, Germany - 12.44 pm

AMALIA's pictures always look as a poem would, were it an image.

Amalia - Ravadese, Parma, Italy - 3.30 pm

GABRIELLA South-East lost count of the white little clouds in the sky, which looked like a flock of sheep.

Gabriella - Lecce, Italy - 4.00 pm

Bare trees, a clear sky, and a sickle moon.

Chiara - Berlin, Germany - 4.14 pm

Chiara - Berlin, Germany - 4.16 pm

The sun was hiding under the sea, and GABRIELLA North-West was there to see it happen.

Gabriella - Sanremo, Imperia, Italy - 4.30 pm

EMANUELA shows us her hometown with a dark sky and Christmas lights.

Emanuela - Cervia, Ravenna, Italy - 4.42 pm

Emanuela - Cervia, Ravenna, Italy - 4.55 pm

Emanuela - Cervia, Ravenna, Italy - 4.58 pm

Emanuela - Cervia, Ravenna, Italy - 4.59 pm