Against war

Marlene Dietrich sings "Where have all the flowers gone?"

"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" is a folk song of the 1960s written by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson. It is a protest song against war. The interesting and touching text describes a sort of cycle which begins from the flowers and returns to the flowers. Marlene Dietrich's interpretation is really great.

Perspectives 4

Sky Watch 22/5/2009

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous"
Aristotle

Happy Sky Watch!

Sundial 4

Sundial of a house in the village of Bardonecchia (1312m, Val di Susa, Piedmont)

Sky Watch 15/5/2009

Rocher Charnier (3067m, Val di Susa, Piedmont, Italy)

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No Tav 2

On the mountain

In the cloudy sky

Near the monastery Sacra di San Michele (10th century)

I often travel the Val di Susa (Susa Valley) and I can't help noticing more and more NO TAV signs.
The readers who are not interested in the NO TAV question will perhaps look upon these photographs as curious images.

NO TAV is a movement of the population of the valley against the construction of a railway line of high-speed train (TAV) Turin - Lyon, in the construction of the so-called Corridor 5 that should connect across eastern Europe (beginning from Kiev), with the major cities of western Europe (including Turin, Marseille, Barcelona to Lisbon).

My previous post about NO TAV: here

Memento of Turin Olympics

The 2006 Turin Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Turin, from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006. This marked the second time Italy hosted the Olympic Winter Games, the first being the VII Olympic Winter Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956. The Nations paricipating were 80, the athletes 2,508 (1,548 men, 960 women). The motto was: Passion lives here. The Olympic Games were officialy opened by the President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.