Travel by water taxi in Venice~

Note: Remember to check in several times today, they keep on sending pictures and notes and you don't want to miss anything. In between, we will try to keep on, keeping on.

My phone started beeping about 4:00 in the morning and I knew the ladies were on foot (or maybe in the water.) The dogs, coffee, and Nate's portable breakfast are my first priority in the mornings, but I got to the phone as soon as I could.  The women had already been to the Murano glass factory and were sporting new glass necklaces.

This is such a good picture of Chee and Beth that I wanted you to see how rested they looked.  They were looking pretty frazzled on the day of their 2 mile, up hill, bike tour in Florence, so I was glad to see they looked  perky in Venice.  This is how they travel in Venice, the water taxi. Next stop, the lace factory in Burano.

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Pam, Alex, and Chee have new glass necklaces from the glass showroom.

How would you like this hanging in your house?

Or this sitting outside your door?

Park your boat in front of your house. Pam said they spent the afternoon in Burano, a fishing town where the boats are the same color as the house they are parked in front of. (Excuse my dangling participle.)

Beth took this glorious shot in a church.  To have that art work to see when ever you wanted to would be wonderful.
And comforting.

And then there's this:

A night out in Venice.

In Ohio we have just planted a long alley of peony bushes.  This is Martha Stewart's --double rows and every color.  We planted ten yellow which I have never seen and various other ones as well.

Isn't this glorious. We save it from year to year in the conservatory.

I am reading Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.