The VDP is (almost) back!

HELLO everyone! VDP is coming back on line after a long year of absence.

What do you think about starting exactly where I quitted? It was a warm early spring last year and I posted a photo of the busy cafes of Piazza Erbe titled "Spring?".

I would title this one "Spring!"

I hope that many of you who used to follow this blog will still be there and maybe some new ones will join us.

The VDP will be back on track very soon. Stay tuned!

Spring?

Holidays!

Verona Daily Photo goes on holiday!

I want to thank all my friends on DP for their constant support and encouragement. I regret I can't keep up with commenting your beautiful sites as much as I'd like to...but surely they inspire me a great deal!

I will be back in town and on the blog from the beginning of september. Have a great summer, a big hug to all of you!

Sultry evening

It's been quite hot lately but yesterday and today it got really really sultry, almost suffocating. I took a walk with my daughter in the evening but the usual freshness that comes with the dark hour, failed to arrive. This is Piazza Erbe, cafés packed with people. This one, in particular has those special nebulizers that give a little relief...

The stalls of Piazza Erbe

Late evening. Stalls are especially designed to be safely closed for the night and towed out of the square on saturday evenings. A close glance on the polished surface of a kiosk, reflecting the Torre de' Lamberti.

Fresh relief!

The Madonna Verona fountain in Piazza Erbe is a fav place for children (and not only) in summer. I stopped here for about twenty minutes as my daughter wanted to get her daily fresh walk; during the time I was there at least 15 children stopped to walk in the freezing water of the old marble fountain... I was rather tempted...

Magic gate

Of course it's not magic, but I like to think it is... You are in Piazza Erbe, under the arches of the Domus Mercatorum and you are attracted by the black curly gate, so you step closer and closer and push it. In a flash of light you swirl into the past... back into the centuries when the Domus Mercatorum had just being built in stone (1301 as you see it now) and it was of key importance in the development of the merchants corporations over the centuries.

Against the sky

Bronze sculpture, Piazza Erbe

The spring mood

A bright, sunny and warm afternoon in Piazza Erbe. Short sleves, shirts, sunglasses, icecreams and refreshing drinks. Finally.

Polished floor

The "Tenin technique" on the polished marble tiles of Piazza Erbe.

Water and lights of Piazza Erbe

Detail of the Madonna Verona Fountain, Piazza Erbe.

Painter's corner

A painter sells his works under the arches of the Domus Mercatorum, Piazza Erbe.

Christmas' last shot

I promise: this will be the last one of Christmas 2009. It's already eleven days into the new year and we still have Christmas lights, Nativity scenes, trees and all sorts of Christmas decoration.

I still have our tree in the sitting room because I haven't got anywhere near putting it back in its box for next december...

So, I hope you don't mind enjoying the Christmas lights a little bit longer...

Souvenirs

Piazza Erbe, souvenirs stall.

Classic car fascination

The sixties' charm. Piazza Erbe, a few days ago.

Lights and drizzle

Piazza Erbe, Christmas Eve.

Stone Nativity Scene

This year the Presepe (Nativity scene) in the centre of Piazza Erbe is made of stone.

I want to thank you all, blogger friends for your kind, kind, kind support. I have been very busy lately (my hubby has a broken ankle...) and didn't visit you as often as I would have and I know just so well how the comments left by blogger friends are the greatest reward to our daily work.

I wish you a happy Christmas with your family and loved ones and the best for the new year: health, love and loads of new photos to share!

Snow!

Yes, it's quite an event here. It didn't use to be but in the last couple of decades, according to the veronesi, snowfalls have become less in number and in snow height. For me, born on the sea shore of southern Tuscany, any snowfall is magic.

Saturday morning a white blanket of five centimeters covered the city. Not much for many of you but of great impact for us!

Evening lights

Madonna Verona Fountain, Piazza Erbe. Friday evening.

Street artists/2