Venice Gondola
Dennis Tibbits painted this wonderful canal scene of Venice, probably from a picture because we have never been there. Last year, our daughter Katy Winbray Brinkley and her new husband Josh Brinkley went to Italy on a Mediterranean Cruise for their honeymoon-- our wedding gift to them. As Winter fades into memory, we're less antsy to travel, but each winter we get the wanderlust to visit new or familiar exotic places. Venice is one city keenly conerned about climate change because the prediction of rising oceans is anticipated to have a devastating cost in infrastructure for this city built on expectations about the water. Where did I hear that the Lombards in centuries past devised steadfast architecture to seat buildings on swampy soft land, thus starting the tradition of this city so comfortable in a culture built around the water? Maybe it was on History Channel.
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