“The large fishing device, made of intertwined trunks, planks and hawsers, gleamed like a huge white skeleton of an antediluvian amphibious being… it looked as if it had a life of its own, feelings and an appearance of a living being.” ~Gabriele D’Annunzio, The Triumph of Death.
Come ogni estate si attende con impazienza l’arrivo sulle coste Abruzzesi della Nave Goletta Palinuro, uno dei fiori all’occhiello della Marina Militare Italia dove ogni anno gli allievi sottufficiali, che … “Faventibus Ventis”. La Goletta Palinuro
“Farther than Abruzzi”: Boccaccio made one of his characters say it to give a sense of the distant, of the secluded, of the fabulous. And his can certainly be taken as a proverbial expression to designate the condition and history of Abruzzi Region.
… Postcard from Italy :: Abruzzi, Mare e Monti
photo: ©PatriciaMuscente’s “Pescatori di sole”
“How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo.” ~Arthur Conan Doyle
Patricia Muscente’s “Pescatori di sole” :: the photo was taken during sunrise, on Thursday 3rd September 2015
“It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.” (Bern Wiliams) | photo: © Matelda Codagnone
“My soul is full of longing
for the secret of the sea,
and the heart of the great ocean
sends a thrilling pulse through me.”
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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