We are in Las Vegas

We have been at home all this time since returning from England in August.  Our son got married in December.  Then we got through Christmas; with a small tree and all of our Christmas decorations still in storage.  We have made the downstairs comfortable with furniture from our office and our bed.  The upstairs is completely empty.  We find we do not need to live in much space these days after being on the road for 6 months.  All of our clothes fit into 1/2 of our closet.  It is good to have our sweet doggie Mac back with us.

The housing market seems to be depressed here at the moment so we are taking some small trips while we decide what to do.  I find that I am restless and want to be back on the road again.

So we are spending a week in Las Vegas.  There are some interesting places to take photographs here.  This is the glass ceiling at the Bellagio Hotel that is stunning.  And some glass Cherry flowers from the inside of the hotel.   We also went to  an abandoned mining town near here, and got photographs of lots of rusted cars and signs.  The next day we went to the stunning Valley of Fire.  This is a state park that has lots of sandstone rocks the are standing straight up from the ground due to violent up thrusts from the time of the dinosaurs.  It is pretty dramatic.

And today we visited the Atomic Testing Museum. We had a Groupon (2 for $26) and you should look for such a discount, as the list price is $22 each, and I don’t think it’s worth that. Those of you who are of our age will remember those duck-and-cover drills from the 60s, and this will certainly make you realize how useless that would have been, and how crazy the whole nuclear industry was.

There is a lot to do in Las Vegas besides gambling.

Well, I thought I would up date you on some of our events.  Not as exciting as the summer in England but still interesting.

If you want to purchase any of these photographs they are available in my Etsy shop.

Florence Italy, old mail boxes and funny graffiti

Florence is an old city with lots of artists and artistic history.  So I thought I would share with you today some old mail boxes and some funny current graffiti in the city.  The old mail boxes are mainly slits in doors or walls.  Here are some examples;   The graffiti is by a local artist who inserts some humor into local signs like these;  And this is a sign that David saw and we thought was funny.