Meri's Play Place

For some strange reason, I'm not able to leave Venice behind. Bear with me, please. And for more Mosaic Monday blogs, please follow T HIS LINK.

For my favorite shot for this week's Favorite Friday, I'm choosing this one. I took it about a month ago, but it brings back SO many memories of Venice, a place I went back to in June after having experienced it first many years ago with the love of my life. There's a story here, one that has nothing to do with my current single-ness. It does relate, however, to my current affair with my Nikon.  I'm not the world's biggest fan of getting up before sunrise. When the light began to seep in around the edges of the shutters at my windows in a faint blue-gray, I thought I could cheat and snap a few shots leaning  out my 4th story window so I could stay in my nightie  and wake up only a little,  just enough to point and shoot a couple of times and then go back to bed and sleep til 9 or so. Spirit had other ideas. When I saw the light, the stillness of the water, the cloud formations,  the mere handful of people moving along the canals.  a totally unpeopled...

My trip to Venice was worth the over-used and cranky knee, getting soaking wet in the downpour two days in a row, and feeling like the new kid on the block when it comes to camera technology. And though I didn't do much of it, it's a fantasy land for ladies who love to shop. Gentlemen, too. Anyone want to sign up for a shopping tour of Venice? I'll be happy to lead it.