Take Your Time to Look - Los Angeles Fine Art Photographer

I get it. It’s the holidays. You are receiving loads of info on gifts to buy on a daily basis.

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I get it. Right when you think you’ve got a handle on this year’s shopping list, boom, there comes a black horse that you feel obligated to turn around and do your “due diligence”.

I really do get it, because I’m on the receiving end of it too. Mind you, I also have a full-time life to run. :-)

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Part of me wanted to enjoy the joy of the season (in fact, almost all of me :D). And yet, the unsettling energy out there keeps reminding me there’s more to look at.

What further complicates the issue is the the supply chain back log. Think shipment/delivery chaos. Have you experienced a one month delay in receiving something in order? I have.

So, if you are still looking for the pure joy of looking (Yeah, kind of like “window shopping”, but in a virtual way), you have the luxury of doing it.

All you need to do is strolling over here before the last minute of the deadline (you know what I mean) and buy a gift card for someone still on your shopping list. Without breaking a sweat or the stress, you’ll look like a hero. Woohoo! A gift of fine art!

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A Happy Dog and Her Bodyguard - Los Angeles Travel Photographer

At Bevagna, Italy, I was elated meeting knights in their armors and rubbing shoulders with ladies carrying their bows and arrows. Peering through the thick crowd and narrow streets, my eyes caught the same kind of excitement in a dog’s face.

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In fact, there were more than one dog with the big grin that stretched from one side of the face to the other.

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Interestingly, the same sentiment was not reflected on their bodyguards. I get it, it takes a lot of toughness to protect such an easy-going spirit from all the harms in the world. And that toughness can wear you down, if you do it a lot.

I turned around to confirm that theory on my bodyguard, only to see the amount of energy and love that he still had, after doing his job, for a dog that needed some tender touch.

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That’s the story of a happy dog and her bodyguard.

La fine.

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Coming a Full Circle from Bevagna, Italy - Los Angeles Travel Photographer

Sometimes, I wonder if our lives are just made of various circles. Some so big that took 10 years to complete, like the one for Niagara Falls. Fortunately, many are smaller.

In the Umbrian town of Bevagna, we met a family of four with two lovely girls. The Italian father told us that he had studied in Spain and led groups along a pilgrimage. From him, we were thrilled to learn how the word “conclave” originated in his hometown Viterbo back in the 13th century. Things like this make for the bonuses in our travel memories.

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However, in all honesty, our mind was set on experiencing the Mercato delle Gaite, during which people of Bevagna go back to the Medieval time to hold banquets, processions, and competitions between the four gaite (quarters). And, that’s the only thing we knew about this “hidden gem” in the province of Perugia.

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At the end, we concluded this a satisfying experience, being content on all things Medieval, visual, or taste, until one year later, when our travel brought us to the path way of Camino de Santiago. That’s when I remembered the gentleman’s work with Spanish Steps and the 5-star chicken coop that he built for his wife.

Isn’t life interesting in some ways?

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