tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904021173466473381.post4205378904460933429..comments2023-10-11T04:09:53.564-07:00Comments on materfamilias writes: A Special Bookstore in Rome. . . .Window-Shopping. . . materfamiliashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16062766947897513369noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904021173466473381.post-86659394422048606282014-08-17T20:31:33.148-07:002014-08-17T20:31:33.148-07:00Thanks, Annie! I love your blog and am so pleased ...Thanks, Annie! I love your blog and am so pleased you popped over for a visit -- and so kind of you to compliment my photos, given your skill with the medium. Honestly, I keep regretting that I didn't even step in the store, but we only had two days in Rome and we discovered this on the last afternoon. I hope we get back some day -- the windows won't be the same, but the interior looks as if it has staying power, no?materfamiliashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16062766947897513369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904021173466473381.post-9388946794691619252014-08-16T17:33:00.889-07:002014-08-16T17:33:00.889-07:00Oh! I loved this!! I'd have been all over that...Oh! I loved this!! I'd have been all over that window - old scientific illustrations are a passion of mine - and you'd have had to drag me from the book store, I simply wouldn't have been able to resist.<br /><br />Your photographs are fabulous, in part because of those gorgeous layered reflections.Annie Cholewahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17608057589525908147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904021173466473381.post-4100005173143353502014-08-16T15:17:33.431-07:002014-08-16T15:17:33.431-07:00Exactly the exhibit I meant. My daughter has one o...Exactly the exhibit I meant. My daughter has one of those sketches hanging also.materfamiliashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16062766947897513369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904021173466473381.post-36082597691614046002014-08-16T15:16:35.593-07:002014-08-16T15:16:35.593-07:00And the weird and the arcane. . . And the weird and the arcane. . . materfamiliashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16062766947897513369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904021173466473381.post-19133532327473455682014-08-16T15:16:13.752-07:002014-08-16T15:16:13.752-07:00I'm chuckling now as well...I'm chuckling now as well...materfamiliashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16062766947897513369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904021173466473381.post-43146903660110053562014-08-14T09:12:06.785-07:002014-08-14T09:12:06.785-07:00How incredibly exciting to be waiting for a new gr...How incredibly exciting to be waiting for a new grandchild. My ballerina daughter has a thing for biology and anatomy, so she'd love the images . . .Miss Cavendishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17461488799928956875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904021173466473381.post-40540330714050506122014-08-13T21:47:56.032-07:002014-08-13T21:47:56.032-07:00Those drawings would be fascinating to page throug...Those drawings would be fascinating to page through, but I don't think I'd want them in my home. <br />I attended the DaVinci exhibit of anatomical drawings in Vancouver a few years ago with my daughter, and just today, I took note again of the framed sketches from the exhibit, hanging in her bathroom. Lorriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03653026442945027184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904021173466473381.post-28657220414534562302014-08-13T15:21:21.665-07:002014-08-13T15:21:21.665-07:00Ah, those drawings give me the creeps, but my daug...Ah, those drawings give me the creeps, but my daughter in medical school would love them. You do have an eye for the complex and the details.LPChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18209861350905135093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904021173466473381.post-4340171524223124732014-08-13T10:29:35.238-07:002014-08-13T10:29:35.238-07:00The window vignettes and the reflection of the sur...The window vignettes and the reflection of the surroundings are some of my favourite<br />Europe photos. I love old books and try to buy a special one from time to time. Your daughter would probably be thrilled with one of the drawings. The rain is indeed refreshing. I now have an image of you as a curly-haired Tinkerbell! Quite funny.. Madame Là-bashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16703782237948233124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904021173466473381.post-47637432768948110052014-08-13T10:19:21.372-07:002014-08-13T10:19:21.372-07:00I couldn't have passed by this store either. ...I couldn't have passed by this store either. I love your right-on description of the smell of the shop. You had me there.<br />I don't know how I'd frame them - or even if I'd be tempted by the drawings. I can see, though, how a drawing or book would be a wonderful gift for a massage-therapist daughter. I suppose that much would depend on the other objects in the room, but somehow an antique frame comes to mind.<br />Past the due date? I remember this time last year - tomorrow our wee one will be a year old. Thinking of you and your daughter as you wait.......Pondsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02407539138546412482noreply@blogger.com