New scanner, old photo albums, new printer, superior laptop, tiny digital camera, and links to websites where both professional and amateur photographer friends have gifted us with their amazing pictures.... This has all the makings of a huge wall of my favorite photographs at Il Loggino. All of you be cautioned, that if you feel possessive of your work and don't want to walk into my home in Castiglione and be stunned at seeing a copy of your work on my wall, you should bluntly and emphatically convey your wishes to me. I promise not to publish or sell any of the prints I make to hang on my walls, but you are all so gifted and I would like a private gallery where the joy of looking at pictures taken by people I know will warm up Tuscan winter nights.

I'll try to contact anyone whose work I want to put in a frame on my wall.

Did I mention that there are what may loosely be called frescoes under some of the thick layers of paint in some of the rooms? These I will try to salvage if I can. There looks to be a chair rail height six inch band of a rather Oriental design running along one wall that will eventually be part of my dining area. And I have just the right Yi dynasty Korean rice chest to put nearby.

Decorating fantasies to distract me from the dreaded demolition and repair phase to come.

posted by Joanna @ 6/23/2004 01:19:00 AM