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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 346534, member: 5833"]You will certainly never forget you trip to Florence!</p><p><br /></p><p>Venus is in the Uffizi but the only Sistine chapel I know is in the Vatican*. Did get to see it, & be blessed by the Pope. It was a student language study tour. Thinking back, they really got a lot into our time there. We spent the 6 weeks in France & Switzerland working on our French; Rome was a weekend junket. The frozen dessert revelation for me was the lemon ice cream in France.</p><p><br /></p><p>Safety boxes are not something easy to just drop in on here & the neighborhood branch of my bank does not have a vault. Then, I tend to evaluate any contemplated new ongoing expenditure in terms of what kind of cameo I could get for the amount it would cost in a year. I don't keep enough millions on deposit to get a free one.</p><p><br /></p><p>I never thought of it as collecting, but have been acquiring jewellery for about the same length of time. Really need to offload a lot of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>In a certain way, the web site has not been a success. Part of the endeavor is to teach people how to 'read' cameos themselves, but several of my subscribers just send an inquiry to me. Often enough the reply is the link for the article on the site.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that there is some ability to search the Internet using images instead of words, an issue the site was meant to address has diminished a little. I'm trying to make it possible to identify a cameo subject when all you know is what you see & you have no idea what search terms to use, where to start with words. Image search leaves a lot to be desired: have loaded a cameo image & been given back an array of pictures of whipped cream topped desserts.</p><p><br /></p><p>* Just clicked for me you meant of all the things you saw in Italy, not just in Florence.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 346534, member: 5833"]You will certainly never forget you trip to Florence! Venus is in the Uffizi but the only Sistine chapel I know is in the Vatican*. Did get to see it, & be blessed by the Pope. It was a student language study tour. Thinking back, they really got a lot into our time there. We spent the 6 weeks in France & Switzerland working on our French; Rome was a weekend junket. The frozen dessert revelation for me was the lemon ice cream in France. Safety boxes are not something easy to just drop in on here & the neighborhood branch of my bank does not have a vault. Then, I tend to evaluate any contemplated new ongoing expenditure in terms of what kind of cameo I could get for the amount it would cost in a year. I don't keep enough millions on deposit to get a free one. I never thought of it as collecting, but have been acquiring jewellery for about the same length of time. Really need to offload a lot of it. In a certain way, the web site has not been a success. Part of the endeavor is to teach people how to 'read' cameos themselves, but several of my subscribers just send an inquiry to me. Often enough the reply is the link for the article on the site. Now that there is some ability to search the Internet using images instead of words, an issue the site was meant to address has diminished a little. I'm trying to make it possible to identify a cameo subject when all you know is what you see & you have no idea what search terms to use, where to start with words. Image search leaves a lot to be desired: have loaded a cameo image & been given back an array of pictures of whipped cream topped desserts. * Just clicked for me you meant of all the things you saw in Italy, not just in Florence.[/QUOTE]
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