I posted Slovenia when I was in Italy and now I’m posting Italy from Slovenia. Best of both worlds.
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First of all, I will have cut back my proverbial 20 photos per post now that I’m travelling. Not only I’m busy, but this laptop editing sucks plenty, WordPress keeps signing me out of my own blog and I have to keep logging in, and also I’m nearing 95% capacity, so I’ll have to start thinking about and getting ready my next one, blog No. 6.
These I had selected for today before I left, a mixed offering of public art in stone and some other materials, all from 2015 and 2017, Lazio, Umbria and Tuscany represented. In one case I’m cheating. It’s not visible from the street, you need to pay to enter the Park of Monsters in Bomarzo. But she was giving me an ugly look and I had to include her.
The post is for Cee’s and Marsha’s Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC), its fifth edition. Marsha is the host this week and I really love the photos of her husband with Alfred. 
Be well and don’t worry if I’m missing on your blog. I’ll catch up.
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Not made of stone but a pretty plant stand with stone as the background. Capalbio, the town closest to me. ![]()
In Tuscania they like their egrets (or is it a heron?). ![]()
One more of the same bird. Maybe not of stone but pretty. ![]()
Nose twister in Orvieto. ![]()
The whole picture. ![]()
A side glance. ![]()
A face in stone in front of the Monastery half way up Monte Argentario. ![]()
She is one of the statues in Sacro Bosco in Bomarzo, for which you have to pay. Others are scarier, that’s why it is also called Park of Monsters. ![]()
“The New Italy,” found in Castagneto Carducci. ![]()
Also there, a peculiar corner feature. ![]()
Paint your own Tuscany. ![]()
The final view of Castagneto Carducci. Can you tell how thirsty I was? ![]()
As thirsty as she is. ![]()
He seems ready to blow. ![]()
Next stop was Sassetta where we found many statues and sculptures. She seemed vaguely familiar. ![]()
She fights for your attention with a boar attacking a dog. ![]()
She wins. ![]()
Also in Sassetta. Just so nobody complains. ![]()
And just to make it clear how I lean: Niki de Saint Phalle’s Nana in Capalbio and a Harley. ![]()
To end on the massive scale: Elephant and Obelisk in Rome with The Pantheon in the back.
For Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC) hosted by Marsha at Always Write
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