One Year Of Sky: Yasmin

martedì 17 novembre 2015

Day Seventeen

Sky of blackness and sorrow,

Sky of love, sky of tears.

Sky of glory and sadness,

Sky of mercy, sky of fear.

[Bruce Springsteen]

Yasmin surely witnessed the most glorious dawn, today!

Yasmin - Wildermieming, Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria - 6.20 am

In Berlin it was still cloudy and rainy, as this picture taken from my bathroom's roof window clearly shows.

Chiara - Berlin, Germany - 7.30 am

Marisa always finds poetry in her surroundings: Green leaves are reaching towards the grey sky, is the title of her picture.

Marisa - Curtatone, Mantua, Italy - 7.33 am

Celenia this morning woke up with an idea: to show us all what the world looks like to her, when she takes her glasses off!

Celenia - Empoli, Florence, Italy - 8.08 am

Ilaria was on the train from Bologna to Florence and looked up and out the window.

Ilaria - Somewhere between Bologna and Florence - 11.40 am

The next picture comes from Cervia, and was taken by Emanuela:

Emanuela - Cervia, Ravenna, Italy - 2.30 pm

Enrica proudly shows off Asiago's airport at sunset! What a view!

Enrica - Asiago, Vicenza, Italy - 4.16 pm

Irene tried to take a picture of the sky as seen from her balcony, with no antennas in it. It was an insurmontable deed, or so it appears. But thanks for trying!

Irene - Viareggio, Lucca, Italy - 4.30 pm

Gabriella's husband, who works in Monte Carlo, today went as far as Menton by bike, and was there to photograph this beautiful sunset!

Gabriella's Husband - Menton, France - 5.15 pm

I think our collection is really improving: our skies are more wonderful than ever! Thank you!

domenica 15 novembre 2015

And another week-end is over.
No matter what we have seen, witnessed, thought, felt... the sky is always up there, linking us all together.

Maria looked out the window - or at least she tried. Talk about fog.

Maria - Chieri, Turin, Italy - 9.00 am

Around me the sky was just slightly more clear.

Chiara - Berlin, Germany - 9.50 am

Gabriella went for a walk through a pine grove, and then along the beach. While she was walking, she thought about the tragic events of these days, and a poem by the Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli came to her mind.

"E tu, Cielo, dall'alto dei mondi

sereni, infinito, immortale,

oh! d'un pianto di stelle lo inondi

quest'atomo opaco del male!"

"And you, heaven, from on high, above the worlds,

serene, infinte, immortal,

Oh, with a single lament of the stars,

you flood this opaque atom of evil."

[Giovanni Pascoli]

Gabriella - San Cataldo, Lecce, Italy - 10.36 am

Gabriella - San Cataldo, Lecce, Italy - 10.50 am

Celenia walked through a Sunday market with her husband and their little child.

Celenia - Empoli, Florence, Italy - 11.26 am

Emanuela's cousin Yasmin took some pictures of the sky in Innsbruck.

Yasmin - Innsbruck, Austria - 12.20 pm

And Rosita, a dear friend of Emanuela's who was in Paris, wanted to pay tribute to the lives that were cut short less than 48 hours ago. This ray of light is for them.

Rosita - Paris, France - 1.18 pm

In Trieste, Gaia looked at the sky and thought: Should I take a picture? Or could I just re-use one of those I took in the past few days? It is always the same!
She decided to take a brand-new one. Well done, Gaia! The sky is always the same, but it also always new!