Saturday, October 16, 2010

Okay, Back ...


... and squeezed a little break into the sorta-hiatus. Positano, with an iPhone camera, of all things. Surprisingly nice lens.

And a funny little essay about the town by John Steinbeck. Who you don't, honestly, think of as always that funny.

62 comments:

  1. Gorgeous!!! Hope you had an awesome trip. Welcome back!!

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  2. CaseyL1:35 PM

    You don't think of Steinbeck as funny? You need to read more of him!

    This is a delicious little story, but I had to wonder if the town is still unspoiled and eccentric fifty-plus years after its telling. What was the place like? Would Steinbeck still recognize it? Was getting to and from still as... er, exciting?

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  3. Geoff Thorne1:41 PM

    The place looks so pretty it's almost fictional.

    I thought the two boats in the foreground were tiny submarines at first.

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  4. Beautiful photo! I suspect it's difficult to take a bad photo of Positano---or at least, I've never seen one.

    I wish I could go Throt Europe, too . . .especially to that gorgeous place. I wouldn't even mind "looking like a washcloth at a boys’ camp."

    I love Steinbeck . . . Travels with Charley is just as humorous!

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  5. I've never been anywhere that's so casually vertical. Looks lovely.

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  6. As Sarah notes, Travels with Charley is very funny. In spots.

    Where he's down in the deep South, not so much.

    'nonvel': Literary smug-ass's description of graphic novels, after the NYTimes begins a best seller list for them.

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  7. Welcome back! And thanks for bringing back traumatic memories of my literature class at age 14. Although...I rather enjoyed Steinbeck's write up of Positano. How odd. Hope you managed to get some rest.

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  8. Did you use your Hipstamatic addiction on your lovely photo? The essay had me laughing out loud at the tour guide and his driving. My grandmother was Polish so I thought everyone's Grandma said "yous". As in, "You's (pronounced "use") need to eat. You's are too skinny. Here, take this food home. I don't it." As a mother to three boys I especially enjoyed the description, "She will arrive looking like a washcloth at a boys' camp." Good Sunday reading, thanks!

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  9. Actually, now that I think about it,the washcloth sent with the boys to the boys' camp would come home relatively clean and unsoiled. It would be neatly folded, like the rest of the unworn clothing in the duffle bag, resting in the spot you packed it. The washcloth may have bits of broken pine needles and candy wrappers from the canteen raids stuck to it. It may also be damp, not from use, but from the swim trunks that your son wore all week and were shoved in his duffle bag on the last day. So if you are into nature, sugary treats and smelling a bit like lake water, a "washcloth arrival" might be okay with you.

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  10. Anonymous4:58 PM

    Went there on my honeymoon. Awesome.

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  11. Wonderful village,I'm sure theirs have a beach beside.

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