Eva and Dan: September 2007

Eva and Dan, a Bridge at Evening, Venice

Pictures of the two of us together are rare--here we took turns playing photographer. Isn't he handsome? Isn't she lovely? Aren't we lucky to have wandered in Venice together? Siamo serenissimi.

Venice and Verona

Right after our Cape Cod adventure, we went to Venice, where Dan just came for a couple days, had a conference in this magnificent palazzo (now an institute for science, art, and music) right next to the Accademia bridge. I stayed for two weeks to do library and museum research, first in Venice, and then in Verona, Mantua, Ferrara, and Padua. We took a few pictures in Venice (including what is now our traditional tourist-shot pose with the Tetrarchs).

In Verona, the highlight of my trip was the opera performance of Aida in the Roman amphitheater. The thought of the accomplishments of Western civilization--architectural and musical wonder--all converging in a single space lit by thousands of candles and accompanied by at least 6 harps, was quite overwhelming. At which point our camera decided that it had truly lived, and could then die. (So I have no pictures of the delights of Mantova, Ferrara, Padova.) But I had come for research, so I did as much as I could, and luckily seeing mostly canonical works which have been captured on film by far more talented photographers than I. Here's the top of the Castle, now a museum, and my view of the Arena before the sun set.

More Selections from Cape Cod

Our vacation this year, inspired by a conference of Dan's near Hyannis, was to Cape Cod. We went on a whale-watching trip with a gaggle? mole? cluster? of physicists; blueberry-picking with our friends Twig and Carole, then rented a cottage and spent time (never enough, for me) on the beach, with my Mom, sister Angela, her bf Jon, Dan's brother Gabe; and one day my sister Jonina and her husband Aaron came down from Boston to join us in the frolicking. Here are some photos.