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Frieda

Green

Lace

A fresh take on the centuries old classic lace collar. I am certainly smitten with these hand dyed necklaces by tree & kimball. The only reason I have yet to purchase one that I can't decide on which one to get first!

Festive Foxes

Such a charming take on traditional cake toppers. These were cleverly handmade here.

Pale

Perpetual Calendars

Type

Wind Swept

Chasing the Sun

My adventure into this valley was no more than a day hike during a short break from rock climbing, though I wish I could have spent weeks in this luscious Alp valley. The Val Calnègia is a hanging valley above Val Bavona in the Italian speaking state of Ticino, Switzerland. People have eked out a living here for thousands of years surviving on chestnuts and livestock. When spring and summer came they moved their livestock up from the lowlands to the fresh grasses in these high up tiers and used these tiny rock cottages as their summer home. In fact, this area was not even their final stop. At the head of the valley they built a monstrous staircase near a waterfall which allowed their livestock to scale up yet another tier to even more grass land.

Shot handheld at f/10, 1/160 sec, ISO 200, on May 22, 2010

Passport

Ernest Hemingway's 1923 passport.

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