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Well I know why. It’s a great shot! One of my favorites of the week.
1 year agoThe soundtracks on your videos are dreamy. I've started a Spotify playlist with some of my favorites.
1 year agoNice that they even incorporated a bicycle wheel motif into the pavement design.
1 year agoNot sure why, but I really like this shot
1 year agoIt’s doing fine.
1 year agoI’m doing fine. I’ve taken 2 long hikes and a very hilly loaded bike ride.
1 year agoHi Scott. Looking forward to your days ahead. Revisiting Riva del Garda, for example. Sue and I leave for Venice on July 17th. We're heading north to Udine along the Alpe Adria, then into Slovenia where we'll do a large loop of the country ending in Trieste.
1 year agoGlad to see that the gash on the knee hasn't slowed you down
1 year ago"... Verona feels like it would be a lovely place for a longer stay some year. We’ll have to make time for it somehow, but not when the Straverona is on...."
Settle in there, and leave town to go on a tour somewhere else during the event.
Yep I think it's a yellow-bellied slider.
https://inaturalist.lu/taxa/39793-Trachemys-scripta-scripta
https://pet.mgxpr.com/product/yellow-bellied-slider-turtle/
Native to the southeastern US they seem to have spread throughout the world due to their popularity as pets; they've been introduced in Europe and are invasive when released.
Might be red-eared sliders (though I don't see any with the telltale red patch on the side of the head behind the eyes), so I'm going to guess they are the yellow-bellied variety. (I assume the name is not an editorial judgment on their fortitude.)
1 year agoThat's quite the tide of humanity built up behind the dam of the cop's arms. You'd represent a salmon headed upstream to spawn, trying to get to the fort through that flood.
1 year agoIndeed. It’s remarkable how the smallest thing can change the course of history. For want of a nail, etc.
1 year agoYou’re right. All of the waterways here are really swollen and rushing this spring. From your photos it looks like you can almost see the rocks on the riverbed.
I’d forgotten you were in Verona on that tour. It’s a shame it was so hot when you got there. It’s heating up fast here too, and feels like in another few weeks we’ll be glad to be leaving the region.
Any plans for this summer?
I noticed that too and wondered about it. It’s a popular cycling destination - most of the folks hanging out at the two cafes in the center were obviously bikers.
1 year ago