STL DPB ON THE ROAD - UNDER THE TUSCAN HAZE

Apologies to Frances Mayes' wonderful book, but we have been driving around Tuscany for a couple of days looking for the quintessential view and the light has been just dreadful. Dull, hazy, formless. The landscape shots I took are unusable. After climbing uphill about 125 meters from the parking lot to to the central piazza in Montepulciano, I had to satisfy myself with some strange entertainment. A German video crew had these two young women race around a corner and then collapse. I couldn't make any sense of it. The tourist sitting on a bench wasn't interested at all.               

WINTERS PAST

I took yesterday off. Daily photoblogging can be a grind, especially when an American like me spends most days driving from a garage attached to my house to a garage beneath my office building, not getting out on the street much in winter. Limited shooting opportunities.

Anyway, there is an unusual plaza between our public television and public radio station's buildings called the Public Media Commons. It is the site of a lot of creative events in good weather. Even in mid-winter, the huge video screen in the back has a rotation of unusual images. When I last passed by, it was showing movie clips of skiing on Art Hill decades ago.        

Video Shoot

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My law firm, Crowe & Shanahan, represents individual people, not businesses or government agencies. There is a lot of competition in our specialty and we have to be aware of marketing our services. We are working on a big upgrade of our web site, which should go up in September. Part of the new site will be video of me and my partner, Julie Shanahan, talking about what we do. The taping took place yesterday. Here, Julie gets ready for an interview with our producer, Laura Bogenschutz of FindLaw.
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