Annalia S.'s photos with the keyword: evening

The last stragglers head home from Villa Vogel Park after the last sunlight abandons a recently vacated bench. Have a good week ahead everyone! Or at least as good as can be had, with Covid surges and violent protests ... P.S.Posting a bit early as I will not be able to tomorrow until quite late.

One of the resting places along the Arno banks trail. HBM and have a great week, everyone!

Almost exactly a year ago, as evening approached (and I headed home from work on my trusty bike "Betsy"), the last of the soft October light was casting warm reflections of the city on the river and the first touches of autumn seemed to have brushed color accents on the city parks trees. Shortly after that, I was once again working remotely from home, as a new wave of Covid19 swept through Italy. A year later, 80% of the eligible population in Italy is fully vaccinated and another 5% has received the first dose. We still wear masks in indoor venues, on public transportation and in crowded outdoor places, but we can move around, all shops are open, if we need healthcare for something other than Covid we can get it and kids are mostly back in school. We could probably dispense even with masks and social distancing if our national quota of vaccine hesitant folks (or their parents, in the case of kids over 12) were not being mislead by the misinformation trash that is still rampant on social media. Because of this trash, and the handful of orchestrators that originate it, we are still losing people who could have been protected by the vaccine, people of varying ages, including up to 25 kids each week, end up having to be hospitalised for Covid, we still have to wear masks and we had to implement vaccine mandates (which would not have been necessary if people's minds had not been poisoned against making rational choices). In my opinion, these orchestrators should not just be banned from social media. They should be brought to justice and made to answer for the deaths and the suffering of the people who unfortunately believed their lies.

With the limitations to traveling, people seem to have rediscovered the charm of city parks, like the Albereta Park on the left bank of the Arno River, just upstream from the city. While I headed for home as the the sun was preparing to set and most park goers seemed to be following the same plan, a couple lingered on a bench by the river to enjoy the last of a day among the new green of spring. I will be busy all day tomorrow, so HBM a bit ahead of time to everybody!

At one time this must have been a nice place for a work break in the shade of the trees ... HAPPY BENCH MONDAY! I am often unable to visit much on the first three days of the week, so thank you in advance for your visits and comments, and sorry if I might have to return your good wishes a bit later. Have a nice week, everyone!

Two ladies walking along the Arno River banks got a halo of light as the westering sun hit their hair at a slant. (I think it does better large) In the PIP: their dog followed at some distance, with his nose close to the ground, absorbing all the heady smells of the riverbanks.

The day is not quite gone yet, but some lights have been turned on already. Taking advantage of a newly repaved section of the Lungarno by Ponte Vecchio, street musicians prepare to entertain evening strollers.

This is the time of year when biking home along the Arno River puts me right in the middle of a light show. On one side, the sun goes down bathing the Arno River in sunset colors as it flows downstream (see PIP), while upstream the city turns to gold in the last light. It makes for a moment when I can forget these scary times for a bit. I hope it does the same for you.

Dodging the construction work in progress on Lungarno Corsini, it was still possible to get this shot of the reflections on the unusually still water of the Arno. Hope everyone is having a good week!

Until a few years ago, this area next to my workplace used to be set aside for community vegetable gardens. Re-appropriated by the the city, it is now just a big lawn. But the vegetables that used to be cultivated here have faithfully reseeded themselves every year and still thrive in the areas where the lawnmowers of the city gardeners can't reach, particularly close to the fence where this fennel plant managed to reach maturity and is basking in the evening sun. In the Pip: tiny visitors enjoying the fragrant fennel. A resilient HFF to everyone out there!

A light beam filtering through a tree canopy casts the shadow of a brave little plant growing next to an old concrete side walk, putting it, for a brief moment, in the spotlight.

Blackberry flower by the river, with visitor.

Struck by the golden evening light the trees at Le Cascine Park create wavy reflections in the river as the water is gently ruffled by a light breeze. In the PIP, a close up of the reflections.