Casa Fanti

Casa Fanti

Fake Sunlight

Spending endless hours closed in my room, because of Covid.

Winter morning at the end of May

Idling around

It's Saturday morning, in the time of the deadly virus outbreak. My wife and daughter have found a good excuse to go out and walk till the nearest post office. They have sewn some cotton protective masks to ship to Italy, to my parents in law. My son, instead, is locked in his bedroom, talking on-line in german with his girlfriend, after lazily attempting some homework. I am finally idling alone. After sitting at the sofa with a copy of the last number of The New Yorker and gazing, instead of reading, at the desert playground beyond our balcony, I remembered that I haven't done a backup for a while and dragged myself to the family laptop.
There won't be the shopping ritual celebration, today. After the plague has begun to spread here around as well, our shopping habits have changed. We prefer going out, "putting at risk our lives" in the most unusual times of the day, when the crowd should be hopefully at minimum. As such, this day is for free. Maybe later, after lunch, I'll put the nose out of the door and walk up to the top of the hill standing behind our building. My son wants to practice with the reflex camera. It's time I teach him something and pass the token on.
I'm rediscovering the joy of having half a day of time to do whatever I want: reading, giving water to the plants on the balcony, paying the TV tax on line or simply take care of long-deferred housekeeping duties, without waiting for late hours in the evening. My wife has made me notice that she bought me a mending kit, two days ago. She's been asking me to stop a couple of holes in our bedroom for so long that she nearly thought of fixing them herself. Now I have no excuses. I'll think about photography this afternoon.

Smart-Working

Home made

A visitor

Four Items

Well, they're actually five. But I like to think of the second picture as if it contained a single item: "glass".

I have scrapped again some time to my already little sleep time to "make" some pictures I've had in mind for a long while. I'm not used to dispose immediately things that I don't need anymore. Sometimes I put them aside waiting for better times or simply a commemorative photo session before trashing.

It is not the case of the items depicted below. Facts are that, for some strange reasons, the few items I had stored apart have disappeared and yesterday evening I had the set ready for doing something after shooting at this year's Halloween pumpkin, i.e. the one designed by my son Flavio for the school contest.

I'll ask the boss of the house about the lost items.

Sunday afternoon

Sunday afternoon, sitting on my couch with the camera in my hands (can't actually explain how and why). Few more minutes before hords of kids invade my after lunch quietness. It's the celebration season of my family. I will survive.