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Thursday, October 14, 2010

seating…. I mean Chairs ….

These may be a stretch of the imagination for this week’s FSO of Chairs.  I just haven’t seen anything during my travels – well to tell the truth I didn’t even get my camera out of the bag on this last trip.  Because if I had the rows and rows of chairs at the 4 airports I went through to get to Houston would (could/might) have been interesting ….

So I searched and searched and found a ‘sitting on a cloud’ stained glass window and other Etruscan seating (c. 600 BC) from Volterra, Italy.  Taken during last September’s Italy trip - which I have only begun to sort out.     DSC_6466DSC_6462   SAM_2171DSC_6412

I imagined this basic garden bench covered in Marble – turning and facing the view – there are ‘modern’ buildings from the 1400 –1500 right in front, but in its time this bench was likely to have looked out at the valley below and the mountains in the hazy distance.

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