“Tuscan Hills” by Stephanie Bennett Vogt
If you love taking and looking at photos as much as I do, you’re going to love the gizmo my husband gave me for my birthday. It’s a digital picture frame with settings that allow you to view your best photos at regular intervals – slideshow, or still-photo style.
We just returned from our 25th anniversary trip to Italy and the only thing that is keeping the adventure alive (and me from going into serious withdrawal) is the gallery of photos projected one at a time from a prominent place in our living room.
When “Tuscan Hills” pops on the screen, I’m transported to that mystical drive we did from Montalcino to Montepulciano when the late afternoon light on the hillside altered our sense of reality. Every time I see it, it makes me feel again what I felt that day: that we’d dropped into a painter’s dreamy canvas.
The photo of us sitting languidly around the table with our friends David, Rose, and Emma (the US Ambassador to Italy and his wife and daughter) takes me back to the 15th century Villa Taverna in the middle of Rome where we spent three magical days as guests of the family. The one of Jay and me next to an ancient Roman aqueduct in Spoleto reminds me of the lovely young Spanish couple we met and talked to for nearly an hour.
It’s the trip that keeps on living, thanks to a magic 12-inch window portal that offers full access.
[p.s. And for a gift idea that keeps on giving? Upload some of your treasured moments onto one of these gizmos and give it to someone you love. That’s what I’m going to do.]
Photo Credit – Both photos by Stephanie Bennett Vogt
[…] Digital photo frame: Lovelovelove this gizmo that allows me to see my photos that would otherwise be lost in computer la-la land. Set to change at one hour intervals, I’ll glance at a photo montage of our recent trip to Italy for example, and I am SO THERE. Because the screen is backlit you see details in your pictures that could easily be missed otherwise. Learn more here. […]