Books of the Uffizi

Annamaria on Monday

In the interests of sanity in the age of AI, I am keeping it simple today (Sunday March 1).  Having been delightfully ensconced here in Florence for the past 2 1/2 months, in a couple of days I will be heading back to NYC. Getting organized to do so is a complicated process.

Keeping up with blogs has been a major challenge while here. Today, I worked out a process to get photos from my phone to my laptop. There may be an easy way to do this, but I have not hit upon it. For me today it has involved four steps worked on the phone and an iPad to the laptop, one photo at a time.

I hope you will enjoy them.

I've spent five days this past week happily hosting dear friends, one of whom hasn't been to Florence in 30 years and another who had never been here. I had the great pleasure of showing them around.  One of our stops was a visit to the de rigeur Uffizi Gallery.

When visiting major museums I never try to see everything.  If I do, my eyes and my brain blur over and nothing sticks.  For the past several years, when visiting a museum with a large collection that I know pretty well, I decide on the theme.  Earlier in this stay in Florence, I posted pictures of angels from a massive exposition. This time in the Uffizi, I decided to take pictures of books, hoping the book lovers of Murder is Everywhere would be amused.

Here they are: a smattering of the many glorious works of art in one of the most revered art collections in the world.

  

The gorgeous image that suggested books as the target that day.

No book here, but I could not resist putting in 

Caravaggio's Medusa, since it portrays exactly

how I feel when dealing with the Blogger software.